Hi guys! Im going to talk to you about a really important jurist of the 20^th century: Hans Kelsen. He was born in Praga, Austria Hungary (in that moment) on October 11^th, 1881 and he died on April 19, 1973. His parents were Adolf Kelsen and Auguste Löwy. In 1884, his family and him, moved to Vienna, where he studied law (at the University of Vienna) and also he took a doctorate in law at the same University.

Why Hans Kelsen is important to our career? Because he invented a very famous Theory called ‘’Pure theory of law’’, which says that law has to be separate of any other social science or moral philosophy that is not inherent to law. Was a representative of the positivism, a doctrine that teaches law as an order created by humans (not by divine origin, as iusnaturalism representatives says), composed by objective rights.

I choose him because is a jurist, political and legal philosopher, that made a lot of contributions to the law science and to the legal system that is governing us at this moment.