Allgemeine Staatslehre - Studienausgabe der Originalausgabe 1925

With his "General Theory of the State," Hans Kelsen joined the ranks of those who were part of a specifically German tradition, but this work was radically new and different compared to other general theories of the state. Not only did the book serve as a prelude to the so-called "Weimar Debate" on the future of German public law and the methodology of its scholarship, it is also the first cohesive portrayal of the "Pure Theory of Law."