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Revus is an international journal for constitutional theory and philosophy of law. It provides a unique forum for academics around the world by publishing contributions in various languages. One of our purposes is to build a bridge between legal scholars and philosophers from different regions and academic circles. (..more..)

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57 | 2025 (Open issue)
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The issue was opened on December 27, 2025.

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56 | 2025
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The issue was opened on December 22, 2025 and closed on March 15, 2026.

  • Editorial [Full text]
    Revus (2025) 56
  • José Antonio Sánchez Rubín
    A reappraisal
    Fundamentos distributivos del derecho de contratos [Full text | translation | es]
    Una revaluación
  • Dúber Armando Celis Vela
    The critical function of legal dogmatics: An analysis of its evaluative dimension
  • Symposium on a new (and rather critical) introduction to legal positivism

    Edited by Toni Malminen

    Advanced Introduction to Legal Positivism (Elgar 2025) encapsulates Kaarlo Tuori’s long engagement with legal positivism. Tuori, professor emeritus of jurisprudence at the University of Helsinki, now confesses that he has lost some of his earlier optimism about legal positivism, believing that “many of legal positivism’s explicit and implicit presuppositions have lost their foothold and that its self-imposed constraints in both the social, moral, and cultural directions are ever more fatal.” Given legal positivism’s foundational role in contemporary legal thought and practice, this is a serious allegation. Tuori seeks to make his case by dissecting positivism’s normativity, social, and separation theses, finding Kelsen’s and Hart’s approaches to all problematic. Finally, he suggests that phenomena such as interlegality and transnational law require us to move past legal positivism.

  • Legal philosophy and legal practice

    Edited by Julieta Rábanos and Bojan Spaić

    Legal philosophy often addresses foundational issues—logic, language, and practical rationality—within the internal debates of jurisprudence. Far less attention is devoted to how such theoretical work might bear on legal doctrine, legal science, and the everyday reasoning of legal actors. Yet understanding the possible connections between philosophical reflection and legal practice remains an important task.

    The contributions in this section continue a discussion initiated at the Special Workshop “Legal Philosophy and Legal Practice,” held during the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) in Seoul in July 2024. Organized within the EU Horizon project Advancing Cooperation on the Foundations of Law (ALF, project 101079177), the workshop explored how theoretical insights about law may illuminate practical questions arising in adjudication and legal reasoning. The papers published here pursue that agenda from different perspectives, and further contributions to this dialogue may appear in future issues of the journal.
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