Permission in a Kelsenian Perspective

Although permissions are of crucial importance in several settings, they have garnered less attention within the deontic logic community than obligations. In previous work we showed how to reconstruct deontic logic using Kelsen's quasi-causal conception of norms, restricting ourselves to the notion of obligation. Here we extend the account to permission, and show how to analyse the notion of strong permission through a Kelsenian lens. In our framework various forms of conflicts between obligation and permission are disentangled.