Download or read book General Theory of Law and State written by Hans Kelsen and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic work by a noted Austrian jurist, Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] in which he advances his theories of the pure nature of law and of the state as separate from a philosophy of justice. The appendix includes an analysis of the natural law doctrine in its opposition to legal positivism.