Product Description: English summary: Volume 4 of Hans Kelsen Werke (HKW) gathers a total of seventeen contributions, each rather different in format, style and content, from the period immediately after the dissolution of the Dual Habsburg Monarchy in October 1918 up until the consolidation of the First Republic under the Federal Constitutional Law of October 1920...read more

Product Description: English summary: Volume 4 of Hans Kelsen Werke (HKW) gathers a total of seventeen contributions, each rather different in format, style and content, from the period immediately after the dissolution of the Dual Habsburg Monarchy in October 1918 up until the consolidation of the First Republic under the Federal Constitutional Law of October 1920...read more

The influential jurist Hans Kelsen here applies his concept of the distinction between society and nature. He shows how primitive man developed his interpretation of nature, through the laws of retribution and of causality, to a modern concept of nature and society. He holds that the gradual emancipation of the law of causality from the principle of retribution is "the emancipation from a social interpretation of nature. The process shows a relation between social and natural science which is very important from the point of view of intellectual history." (Introduction p. viii) Extensively annotated. Kelsen is known for his theory of pure positive law, as postulated in General Theory of Law and State, which is also available in a reprint edition from The Lawbook Exchange.

Product Description: Despite reworking and rewriting ‚Secular Religion‘ for about ten years Hans Kelsen finally withdrew the text from printing in 1964. After long and careful consideration the Hans Kelsen-Institut has now decided to lift the veil on Kelsen’s somewhat mysterious last book and to bring ‚Secular Religion‘ to a wider public...read more

Product Description: An Essential Function of International Law. "Professor Kelsen's high standing as a scholar is sufficient to commend in advance any volume that comes from his pen. But in this case he has chosen a subject that will at once challenge attention...read more

Product Description: 2ª ed. Kelsen el más influyente teórico del Derecho del siglo XX, polemiza en esta obra con Smend, uno de los más destacados teóricos alemanes del estado. La constitución para Smend tiene la doble condición de ser reflejo de esa previa integración e instrumento...read more

Product Description: La polémica que en 1931 enfrentó a Carl Schmitt y Hans Kelsen acerca del defensor de la Constitución (&ldquo,Hü,nter der Verfassung&rdquo,), es uno de los momentos claves del Estado democrático en que afloran toda una serie de intuiciones, planteamientos y críticas que desbordan el estrecho marco de la justicia constit...read more

Product Description: La polémica que en 1931 enfrentó a Carl Schmitt y Hans Kelsen acerca del defensor de la Constitución (&ldquo,Hü,nter der Verfassung&rdquo,), es uno de los momentos claves del Estado democrático en que afloran toda una serie de intuiciones, planteamientos y críticas que desbordan el estrecho marco de la justicia constit...read more

Product Description: Reprint of the only edition. Kelsen [1881-1973] departs from his theories on pure law and here proposes a formula for international peace. He proffers "peace guaranteed by compulsory adjudication of international disputes," (Part I): the formation of a world court with the authority to resolve international conflicts, and "peace guaranteed by individual responsibility for violations of international law," (Part II): that individual statesmen take personal moral and legal responsibility for war crimes and other acts of violation committed by their country...read more

Reprint of the first edition. This classic work by the important Austrian jurist is the fullest exposition of his enormously influential pure theory of law, which includes a theory of the state. It also has an extensive appendix that discusses the pure theory in comparison with the law of nature, positivism, historical natural law, metaphysical dualism and scientific-critical philosophy. "The scope of the work is truly universal. It never loses itself in vague generalities or in unconnected fragments of thought. On the contrary, precision in the formulation of details and rigorous system are characteristic features of the exposition: only a mind fully concentrated upon that logical structure can possibly follow Kelsen's penetrating analysis. Such a mind will not shrink from the effort necessary for acquainting itself with...the pure theory of law in its more general aspects, and will then pass over to the theory of the state which ends up with a carefully worked out theory of international law.": Julius Kraft, American Journal of International Law 40 (1946):496. Possibly the most influential jurisprudent of the twentieth century, Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] was legal adviser to Austria's last emperor and its first republican government, the founder and permanent advisor of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Austria, and the author of Austria's Constitution, which was enacted in 1920, abolished during the Anschluss, and restored in 1945. He was the author of more than forty books on law and legal philosophy. Active as a teacher in Europe and the United States, he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and taught at the universities of Cologne and Prague, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Harvard, Wellesley, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Naval War College.

Product Description: THE CONTRADICTORY NATURE OF COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT Written during a tense period of the Cold War, this study observed that Bolshevism was a system that embraces anarchism in theory and totalitarianism in practice. In order to survive the Bolshevist state must obliterate the potentially destabilizing forces inherent in democracy through a party dictatorship that is presented as the political self-determination of a free people...read more

Reprint of the second revised and enlarged edition, a complete revision of the first edition published in 1934. A landmark in the development of modern jurisprudence, the pure theory of law defines law as a system of coercive norms created by the state that rests on the validity of a generally accepted Grundnorm, or basic norm, such as the supremacy of the Constitution. Entirely self-supporting, it rejects any concept derived from metaphysics, politics, ethics, sociology, or the natural sciences. Beginning with the medieval reception of Roman law, traditional jurisprudence has maintained a dual system of "subjective" law (the rights of a person) and "objective" law (the system of norms). Throughout history this dualism has been a useful tool for putting the law in the service of politics, especially by rulers or dominant political parties. The pure theory of law destroys this dualism by replacing it with a unitary system of objective positive law that is insulated from political manipulation. Possibly the most influential jurisprudent of the twentieth century, Hans Kelsen [1881-1973] was legal adviser to Austria's last emperor and its first republican government, the founder and permanent advisor of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Austria, and the author of Austria's Constitution, which was enacted in 1920, abolished during the Anschluss, and restored in 1945. The author of more than forty books on law and legal philosophy, he is best known for this work and General Theory of Law and State. Also active as a teacher in Europe and the United States, he was Dean of the Law Faculty of the University of Vienna and taught at the universities of Cologne and Prague, the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Harvard, Wellesley, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Naval War College. Also available in cloth.

Product Description: First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: In attempting to understand the psychological aspects of the developmental process and socialization, the distinct disciplines of sociology and psychology were brought together for the first time. Titles in this set analyze how behaviour is formed and learned...read more

Product Description: One of the leading legal philosophers of this century, Kelsen first published this short treatise in 1934, when the neo-Kantian influence on his work was at its zenith. An earlier, "constructivist" phase had been displaced by his effort to provide something approximating a neo-Kantian foundation for his theory...read more