Kelsen’s 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 Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna, Austria. Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora is Associate Professor at the University at Buffalo School of Law, State University of New York, USA.

Introduction, Stanley L Paulson (Washington University in St Louis, USA)

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, Australia)
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 the 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)
15. Hans Kelsen and Soviet Law, Mikhail Antonov (Higher School of Economics, Russia)