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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Law</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Юридические науки</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2313-2337</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2408-9001</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">44981</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2313-2337-2025-29-2-345-364</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">XMNSQN</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>STATE AND LAW IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ГОСУДАРСТВО И ПРАВО В СОВРЕМЕННОМ МИРЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">H. Hart’s Criticism of H. Kelsen’s Doctrine of Unity, Consistency and Autonomy of Law</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Критика Г. Хартом учения Г. Кельзена о единстве, непротиворечивости и автономии права</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5541-9181</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">6195-5396</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kasatkin</surname><given-names>Sergei N.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Касаткин</surname><given-names>Сергей Николаевич</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Legal Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Laboratory of Evidence-based Social Policy, Associate Professor at the Department of Theory of Law and Public Law Disciplines</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат юридических наук, доцент, ведущий научный сотрудник Лаборатории доказательной социальной политики, доцент кафедры теории права и публично-правовых дисциплин</p></bio><email>kasatka_s@bk.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Samara State University of Economics</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Самарский государственный экономический университет</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-07-03" publication-format="electronic"><day>03</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>29</volume><issue>2</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>345</fpage><lpage>364</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-07-13"><day>13</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Kasatkin S.N.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Касаткин С.Н.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kasatkin S.N.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Касаткин С.Н.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/44981">https://journals.rudn.ru/law/article/view/44981</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The author examines the debate surrounding the understanding and possibility of normative conflicts within legal systems, focusing on theories of 20th-century key positivists, Kelsen and Hart. The primary aim is to reconstruct and evaluate Hart’s critique of Kelsen’s concept of the impossibility of norm conflicts, which is central to Kelsen’s doctrine of the unity of the system of law (both international and municipal) and its relationship with morality. The paper’s relevance stems from the controversial comparative assessment of Kelsen and Hart’s positions on norm conflicts, the relatively unexplored nature of Hart’s doctrine on this issue, and the need to clarify the foundations for conceptualizing norm conflicts at the intersection of foreign and domestic legal experiences. The main sources are Kelsen’s classical works and Hart’s 1960s essays analyzing them, studied using ideological-historical and rational reconstruction, exegesis, and philosophical analysis of language. The article analyzes the jurists’ general approaches, their accounts of the unity, consistency, and autonomy of law, and evaluates their methodological and practical potential. The main conclusion is that the possibility of norm conflicts in law depends on the “interpretative attitude” and the language of reasoning accepted within a community, and that theoretical statements about the possibility of such conflicts are contingent upon the chosen methodology.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Автор обращается к обсуждению проблем понимания и возможности нормативных конфликтов в правовой системе в теориях ключевых позитивистов XX в., Кельзена и Харта. Ее цель - реконструкция и оценка критики Хартом идеи невозможности нормоконфликтов как части учения Кельзена о единстве системы (международного и национального) права и ее соотношении с моралью. Актуальность работы обусловлена как дискуссионностью в сравнительной оценке позиций Кельзена и Харта по нормоконфликтам, неизученностью доктрины последнего, так и важностью прояснения оснований концептуализации нормоконфликтов на пересечении зарубежного и отечественного опыта. Главными источниками статьи выступают труды Кельзена классического периода и анализирующие их очерки Харта 1960-х гг., исследуемые с помощью методов идейно-исторической и рациональной реконструкции, экзегетики, философского анализа языка и пр. Как результат в статье рассматриваются общие подходы правоведов, трактовка ими единства, бесконфликтности и автономии права, оценивается их методологический и практический потенциал. В качестве главного вывода фиксируется зависимость возможности нормоконфликтов в праве от принятой в сообществе «интерпретативной установки», языка рассуждений, а также зависимость теоретических утверждений о возможности таких конфликтов от избранной методологии.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Kelsen</kwd><kwd>Hart</kwd><kwd>normative conflict</kwd><kwd>legal collision</kwd><kwd>legal system</kwd><kwd>methodology of jurisprudence</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Кельзен</kwd><kwd>Харт</kwd><kwd>нормативный конфликт</kwd><kwd>юридическая коллизия</kwd><kwd>система права</kwd><kwd>методология юриспруденции</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="en">The research was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation  No. 24-28-01893. https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-01893/.</funding-statement><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда № 24-28-01893, https://rscf.ru/project/24-28-01893/.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Antonov, M.V. 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