A Three-Dimensional Theory of Law

What this book intends to do is to study three-dimensionalism (the distinction values-norms-facts) not in what could be called its historical dimension, but in its substantive aspect, as a form that, when applied to different legal themes, would add a material content to the three-dimensional theory.

We can point out, as a study plan, the distinction between three perspectives: Those of the legal norm, of the legal order, and the legal relationship. Three-dimensionalism also appears in this work when one analyzes the three phases of the life of the law: The formation, the interpretation, and the application; and in the distinction between the three characteristics of the legal order: Fullness, coherence, and unity-the theory of legal validity, intended as legitimacy, as validity strictly speaking, or as effectiveness.