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There is a science of legal norms. ‘Its exclusive purpose is to know and to describe its object’. This…

Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law treats jurisprudence as the study of positive legal norms. Its aim is to describe what the law is and how it operates, rather than prescribe…

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There is a science of legal norms. ‘Its exclusive purpose is to know and to describe its object’. This is true for

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Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law treats jurisprudence as the study of positive legal norms. Its aim is to describe what the law is and how it operates, rather than prescribe what the law ought to be. The quoted descriptive purpose therefore belongs to Kelsen's theory.

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