title: Validity and efficacy of international law according to the pure theory of law
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metadata.value: Kraevsky, Arseny A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-20T18:17:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-20T18:17:38Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Kraevsky, Arseny A. 2021. “Validity and efficacy of international law according to the pure theory of law”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 1: 184–204.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2021.113
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/28071
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: At the beginning of its development, the science of international law was inextricably linked
  to the doctrine of natural law. The latter was seen as the basis of international law. The very
  problem of the foundations of international law became acute in the 19th century, when the
  prevailing legal positivism abandoned the idea of natural law. All proposed solutions were
  based on the idea of self-obligation of sovereign states. Some of them questioned the very
  existence of international law, while others required the introduction of explicit fictions. In
  an attempt to solve this problem, the pure theory of law developed by Hans Kelsen and his
  students proposed a theory of a hierarchical structure of international and domestic law. The
  relationship between the levels of the normative system is based on the empowering norms,
  which transfer the property of legal validity to the lower norms created on their basis. The
  concept of validity corresponds to the concept of efficacy of the norm. The interrelation
  of validity and efficacy of legal norms in international law differs significantly from their
  interrelation in domestic law; the study of this relationship in Kelsen’s theory was the main
  purpose of this study. The structure of international law according to Kelsen is a pyramid, the
  highest level of which is customary international law, based on the basic norm of international law that establishes the binding force of international custom. In this case, from the point of
  view of the pure theory of law, a special role in international law is played by the principle of
  effectiveness — recognition of the existing factual state of affairs as legitimate. The greater
  importance of this principle in international law is explained by the absence of a centralized
  system of coercion in the latter because decentralized legal order does not allow the application
  of organized sanctions in instances of violation of international legal norms.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The article was prepared within the framework of the scientific project No. 18-011-01195 “Validity
  and efficacy of law: theoretical models and strategies of judicial argumentation”, supported by the Russian
  Foundation for Basic Research.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 12; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monism in international law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international legal custom
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: pure theory of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: basic norm
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: validity of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: efficacy of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: natural law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal positivism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Validity and efficacy of international law according to the pure theory of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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