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The Communist Theory of Law

The Communist Theory of Law

By Hans Kelsen

Praeger, 1955, 203 pp

Reviewed by Henry L. Roberts

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The Communist Theory of Law

The Communist Theory of Law

By Hans Kelsen

Praeger, 1955, 203 pp

A critical analysis, by a leading jurist, of the Communist theory of law, especially its anti-normative approach to legal and social relations.

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