What is meant by the "hierarchy of legal rules"?
Understanding ICPE regulations: general concepts

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What is meant by the "hierarchy of legal rules"?
Understanding ICPE regulations: general concepts

Author : Solange VIGER

Publication date: November 10, 2025 | Lire en français

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1. What is meant by the "hierarchy of legal rules"?

Legal rules form a hierarchical order, which is represented as a pyramid (see the figure “Hierarchy of Legal Rules”), known as the “Kelsen pyramid” after the legal scholar Hans Kelsen, who developed a diagram to visualize the entire body of legal rules and the hierarchy among them.

.Hierarchy of Legal Rules
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