Kelsen’s Global Legacy

Jorge Emilio Núñez is Reader in Legal Philosophy (Jurisprudence), Political Philosophy, and International Relations at Manchester Law School, UK. Gonzalo Villa Rosas is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Law, Externado University, Colombia. Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora is Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York, USA.

1. Introduction, Jorge Emilio Núñez (Manchester Law School, UK), Gonzalo Villa Rosas (Externado University, Colombia) and Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora (State University of New York, United States)

Part I: Kelsen’s Theory
2. Kelsen’s and Multidimensional Law, Jorge Emilio Núñez (Manchester Law School, UK)
3. Fictionalism in Hans Kelsen's General Theory of Norms, Monika Zalewska (University of Lodz, Poland)
4. Kelsen’s Fiction Turn, Iain Stewart (Macquarie University, Australia)
5. Kelsen on Kant’s Pure and Practical Reason Contradiction, Rubin Assis da Silveira Souza (Law School of São Paulo, FGV-SP, and. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq, Brazil)

Part II. Kelsen’s Norm Theory
6. Kelsen’s Doctrine of Legal Validity, Stanley L. Paulson (University of Kiel, Germany)
7. Varieties of Validity, Carsten Heidemann (Bordesholm, Kiel Bar Association, Germany)
8. Expanding Kelsen’s Concept of Singular Rules and Production of Rules by Rules: Self-applied Rules and Nomo-Dynamic Networks, Carlo Garbarino (Università Bocconi, Italy and NYU Law School, United States)
9. The Kelsen-Hart Debate on Normative Sanction: a Look Beyond the Last of the Mohicans, Andrés Botero Bernal (Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia)
10. On Force, Effectiveness, and Law in Kelsen, Julieta Rabanos (Istituto Tarello, University of Genova, Italy)

Part III. Kelsen’s International and Non-State Law
11. Clarifying Kelsenian Monism, Jorge Luis Fabra Zamora (State University of New York, United States)
12. Kelsen and ‘Primitive” International Law: Three Answers and a Question, Phil Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
13. Kelsen’s Philosophy of International Law and the Project of Pure Theory of Law, Tomasz Widlak (University of Gdansk, Poland)
14. Hans Kelsen and the Soviet Law, Mikhail Antonov (Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
15. Kelsen’s Basic Norm and Hart’s Secondary Rules in Comparative Study of the 20th-century Revolutionary Legal Change in Russia and Germany, Anna Taitslin (University of Canberra, Australia)
16. “Kelsen in the Grenada Court”: Simeon McIntosh’s Contribution to the Understanding of Kelsen’s Theory of Revolutionary Legality, Asya Ostroukh, (the University of the West Indies, Barbados)

Part IV. Kelsen and the Theory of Democracy
17. Hans Kelsen and the Crisis of Democracy, Lars Vinx (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
18. The Tension between Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law and his Theory of Democracy, Herlinde Pauer-Studer (University of Vienna, Austria)
19. Kelsen and the Problem of Democratization of the Administration, Thomas Olechowski (University of Vienna, Austria)