Abstract
Review essay on Thomas Olechowski, Hans Kelsen: Biographie eines Rechtswissenschaftlers (Hans Kelsen: Biography of a Legal Scientist).
An essay on the only full biography (1,000+ pages) of Austrian and American scholar Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), called "the jurist of the 20th century" - often misunderstood, both accidentally and deliberately, and in the anglosphere poorly understood owing to faulty translations.
Explores the biography's chain to be microhistory. With additional research, supports and expands on the biography's demonstration that Kelsen is much more than an analytical legal philosopher.
The first in a pair of articles; the second will appear in 2024 as a chapter in an edited book.
An essay on the only full biography (1,000+ pages) of Austrian and American scholar Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), called "the jurist of the 20th century" - often misunderstood, both accidentally and deliberately, and in the anglosphere poorly understood owing to faulty translations.
Explores the biography's chain to be microhistory. With additional research, supports and expands on the biography's demonstration that Kelsen is much more than an analytical legal philosopher.
The first in a pair of articles; the second will appear in 2024 as a chapter in an edited book.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 119-192 |
| Number of pages | 74 |
| Journal | Journal of Legal Philosophy |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Oct 2023 |
Keywords
- Hans Kelsen
- Pute Theory of Law
- legal positivism
- Austrian Constitution
- University of Vienna
- University of California Berkeley