Hans Kelsen in America - Selective Affinities and the Mysteries of Academic Influence

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Introduction: Hans Kelsen for Americans....Pages 1-13
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Kelsen in the United States: Still Misunderstood....Pages 17-29
Marmor’s Kelsen....Pages 31-55
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The Kelsen-Hart Debate: Hart’s Critique of Kelsen’s Legal Monism Reconsidered....Pages 59-83
Peace and Global Justice through Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression? Kelsen and Morgenthau on the Nuremberg Trials and the International Judicial Function....Pages 85-99
Hans Kelsen, The Second World War and the U.S. Government....Pages 101-112
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Arriving at Justice by a Process of Elimination: Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss....Pages 115-133
Kelsen and Niebuhr on Democracy....Pages 135-159
Hans Kelsen’s Psychoanalytic Heritage—An Ehrenzweigian Reconstruction....Pages 161-174
A Morally Enlightened Positivism? Kelsen and Habermas on the Democratic Roots of Validity in Municipal and International Law....Pages 175-213
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The Neglect of Hans Kelsen in West German Public Law Scholarship, 1945–1980....Pages 217-228
Philosophy of Law and Theory of Law: “The Continuity of Kelsen’s Years in America”....Pages 229-247
Pure Formalism? Kelsenian Interpretative Theory between Textualism and Realism....Pages 249-263
Cognition and Reason: Rethinking Kelsen in the Context of Contract and Business Law....Pages 265-296
Kelsen’s View of the Addressee of the Law: Primary and Secondary Norms....Pages 297-317
Kelsen, Justice, and Constructivism....Pages 319-328
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In Defense of Modern Times: A Keynote Address....Pages 331-342
The Free Exercise Clause and Hans Kelsen’s Modernist Secularism....Pages 343-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-368