Resumen de According to the will of which legislator? Kelsen's legal theory and the relevance of the conditions of the validity for the discussion on the methods of interpretation.

Matheus Pelegrino da Silva

• The article investigates the relevance of the conditions for the validity of a legal text, taking into account the possibility of employing a method of interpretation that adopts the will of the legislator as parameter. Since legal norms are valid not only due to the fact that they were created through a valid form, but also because afterwards they have not lost their validity, the conditions required to assert the absence of derogation and desuetudo are analyzed in view of the circumstance that the validity of the interpreted text depends on this absence. Because the permanence of the legal text may be the result of an interpretation that does not take into account the will of the legislator, it is argued that the interpretation according to the will of the legislator neither secures democratic legitimacy for the application of law nor offers a method of interpretation that transforms legal interpretation into a pure act of cognition.