HANS KELSEN: GENERAL THEORY OF LAW, New York, Russel & Russel, 1961


Questions to the text:

2. Kelsen: Law as a specific social technique (p. 15-29)

1. What is the difference between direct and indirect motivation?

2. How Kelsen distinguishes law from morality and religion?
3. What Kelsen means when defining law as a coercive order?
4. What is Kelsen's definition of law?

5. What is the difference between Kelsen's and the sociological understanding of law

 of Eugen Ehrlich, founder of the sociology of law?