Kelsen's Legacy: Legal Normativity, International Law and Democracy

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, col...