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In what year did Kelsen first publish the Pure Theory of Law?
Estimate on a scale from 1900 to 1970.
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- Between the wars.
- The mid-1930s, in Vienna.
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1934 (answers within ±5 count)
Why
1934. The date sits inside the same European crisis that produced Radbruch's later formula, and the two responses could not be further apart: Kelsen answered the collapse of legal certainty by purifying the theory of law of everything moral and political, and Radbruch answered it by letting justice override statute at the extreme.
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