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Kelsen, Hans

Hans Kelsen was a European legal philosopher and teacher who emigrated to the United States in 1940 after leaving Nazi Germany. Kelsen is most famous for his studies on law and especially for his idea known as the pure theory of the law. Kelsen was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on October 11, 1881. He studied at several universities, including Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. He received a doctor of laws degree from Vienna in 1906 and began teaching at the school in 1911. He taught public law and Jurisprudence at Vienna until 1930, when he moved to Germany to teach at the University of Cologne. There he taught International Law and jurisprudence and served as dean for two years.






He died April 20, 1973, in Berkeley, California.

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64) Compare Hans Kelsen, The Law of the United Nations: A Critical Examination of its Fundamental Problems (London: London Institute of World Affairs, 1951), p.
Although Hans Kelsen is widely regarded as the most influential legal positivist of his generation,(1) his "pure theory" of law has often struck theorists in the Anglo-american legal tradition as an exercise in theoretical system-building out of touch with legal reality.
Since its founding in 1933, The Fletcher School has been a leader in international legal education, employing distinguished legal scholars and practitioners on its faculty, including Leo Gross, Keith Highet, Robert Hudec, Hans Kelsen, Louis Sohn, Julius Stone, and Roscoe Pound.
For the continental-european perspective see Hans Kelsen, Die Verfassungsgesetze der Republik Deutsch-Osterreich Vol III (1919) 112.
Hans Kelsen, Eugen Ehrlich, Nicholas Timosheff, and Richard Quinney.
Hans Kelsen, one of the leading positivist legal theorists of the twentieth century, made a similar argument in his explorations of international law.
In the second chapter Anderson provides an exacting critique of modern legal theory, engaging in argument with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound, Jerome Frank, Hans Kelsen, and even going as far back as Jeremy Bentham.
Social scientists Max Horkheimer and Karl Manmheim and legal theorist Hans Kelsen were not well understood when they applied their theories to other societies.
The first such assault on sovereignty came from the Pure Theory of Law as expounded by Hans Kelsen who evaluated legal theory, not in terms of sovereign and its subjects, but as an integrated structure of the hierarchy of norms.
Widely regarded as the most important legal theorist of the 20th century, Hans Kelsen is best known for his formulation of the "pure theory of law.
Relying on Hans Kelsen and his theories of how old constitutional orders were replaced by new ones, the supreme Court of Pakistan held that revolutions could become, if successful, "law creating fact[s].