Full Description
This volume offers a comprehensive examination of Hans Kelsen's legal and political philosophy, focusing on four central themes.
The first part analyses Kelsen's theory of norms, including its periodisation and concepts of validity and coercion. The second part explores his perspectives on international law, addressing its structural analysis, primitive law characterisation, and teleology. The third part examines Kelsen's theory of democracy, its relationship with the pure theory of law, collective will, and democratisation of the administration. The final part discusses Kelsen's influence on the Vienna School of Legal Theory and its impact on case law and jurisprudence beyond Europe. This collection is essential for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand Kelsen's legacy.
Contents
Introduction, Stanley L Paulson (University of Kiel, Germany)
1. Reading 'Kelsen's Legacy', Gonzalo Villa-Rosas (University of Vienna, Austria)
Part I: Legal Norms
2. On Eugenio Bulygin's Kelsen, Stanley L Paulson (University of Kiel, Germany)
3. Hans Kelsen's Concept of the Relative A Priori, Robert Alexy (University of Kiel, Germany)
4. Kelsen the Outsider, Iain Stewart (Macquarie Law School, Sydney)
5. Varieties of Validity, Carsten Heidemann (Schleswig-Holstein Bar Association, Germany)
6. On Force, Effectiveness and Law in Kelsen, Julieta A Rabanos (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Part II: International Law
7. The Pure Theory's Nomomechanics and the Structural Analysis of International Law, Jörg Kammerhofer (University of Freiburg, Germany)
8. Kelsen and 'Primitive' International Law: Three Solutions and a Problem, Phil Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
9. The Teleology of Peace and Kelsen's Philosophy of International Law, Tomasz Widlak (University of Gdansk, Poland)
Part III: Democracy
10. Hans Kelsen's Normativism, the Theory of Democracy and Enlightenment Values, Monika Zalewska (University of Lodz, Poland)
11. Hans Kelsen and the Crisis of Democracy, Lars Vinx (University of Cambridge, UK)
12. Kelsen and the Problem of Democratisation of the Administration, Thomas Olechowski (University of Vienna, Austria)
Part IV: Kelsen's Legacy
13. 'A Monument More Lasting than Bronze, Higher than the Pyramids' Regal Structures'? The Vienna School of the Pure Theory of Law as the Work and Legacy of Hans Kelsen, Rodrigo Cadore (University of Freiburg, Germany)
14. 'Kelsen in the Grenada Court': Simeon McIntosh's Contribution to the Understanding of Kelsen's Theory of Revolutionary Legality, Asya Ostroukh (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
15. Hans Kelsen and Soviet Law, Mikhail Antonov (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
