Seen by scholars as an important work[1][2] in understanding of a conceptual constructivist approach of the scientific way of thinking law in the new era of the jurisprudence of values, Bobbio's book faces this challenge in five chapters.
[3] "It's in the first chapter of the book, which could be a possible introduction, that the renowned jusphilosopher opted for not making.
"[4] "A Theory of Legal Order is an attempt to solve some problems that the theory of the norm hadn't managed to solve or even had answer unsatisfatorily, as, for instance, the questions of the completeness and conflicts between norms.
"[5] "In this work, the italian thinker analyzes no more the norm isolatedly, but the relationship between them inside an order.
The author emphasizes the formal aspects of the unity, the cohesiveness and completess of law as a closed logical system, with the clear intention to survey the law with the objective criteria, sine qua non to rise them to a scientific level, through the juridical speech.