The Book of Law as “Creator” of Coherence. Some Remarks on Kelsen’s and Troper’s Concepts of “Legal Dogmatics” and “Legal Science”

Authors

  • Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho

Keywords:

Books of law, Legal dogmatics, Legal science

Abstract

In this essay, I argue that Kelsen’s and Troper’s concept of legal science, as well as Troper’s divide between legal dogmatics and legal science, are fundamentally flawed, for they fail to recognise the constitutive character of legal science’s epistemic coherence.

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Author Biography

Nuno Manuel Pinto Oliveira, Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho

Professor associado com agregação da Escola de Direito da Universidade do Minho (Portugal). Doutor em Ciências Jurídicas do Instituto Universitário Europeu de Florença.

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Published

2015-08-08

How to Cite

OLIVEIRA, Nuno Manuel Pinto. The Book of Law as “Creator” of Coherence. Some Remarks on Kelsen’s and Troper’s Concepts of “Legal Dogmatics” and “Legal Science”. civilistica.com: revista eletrônica de direito civil, Rio de Janeiro, v. 4, n. 1, p. 1–16, 2015. Disponível em: https://civilistica.emnuvens.com.br/redc/article/view/591. Acesso em: 12 mar. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Foreign doctrine