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Overview

Hans Kelsen was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the social sciences, with a specialization in law, political science and international relations, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of their work included comparative international legal studies, legal processes and jurisprudence, comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies, Brazilian legal issues, public health in Brazil, and criminal justice and penology.

Hans Kelsen authored several papers published between 2020 and 2022. Notable works included:

  • El método y los conceptos fundamentales de la teoría pura del Derecho, 2021, Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
  • SCIENCE AND POLITICS, 2020, Proceedings of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS
  • CIÊNCIA E DEMOCRACIA (1937), 2021, Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
  • Causality and Retribution / trans. from Engl. А. B. Didikin, 2020, Omsk Scientific Bulletin Series Society History Modernity
  • Dieu et l'État, 2022, Droits

Frequent coauthors of Hans Kelsen included:

  • Kittka György
  • Gabriel Guillén Kalle
  • Luis Legaz Lacambra
  • Joaquín Almoguera Carreres
  • А. Б. Дидикин

Hans Kelsen's publications appeared in various venues such as:

  • Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
  • Proceedings of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS
  • Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFMG
  • Omsk Scientific Bulletin Series Society History Modernity
  • Droits

Regarding book publications, Hans Kelsen contributed to works published by several publishers, including Mohr Siebeck eBooks, Mádl Ferenc emléksorozat, and Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Direito eBooks. Titles included:

  • Staatsform und Weltanschauung (2025)
  • Az ismeretlen Mádl Ferenc: Írások tőle és róla (2024)
  • Sobre o ilícito do Estado: juntamente com uma contribuição sobre a questão da capacidade delitiva das pessoas jurídicas e para a doutrina do ato estatal eivado de falha (2025)

Best Publications

  • General theory of law and state

    Hans Kelsen

  • Pure Theory of Law

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  • General Theory of Law and State

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  • Pure Theory of Law

    Hans Kelsen

  • General Theory of Law and State

    Unknown

  • Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory

    Unknown

  • General Theory of Law and State

    Unknown

  • General Theory of Norms

    Hans Kelsen;Michael Hartney

  • The pure theory of law

    A. D. Woozley;Hans Kelsen;Max Knight

  • Teoría pura del derecho

    Hans Kelsen

  • The Pure Theory of Law and Analytical Jurisprudence

    Hans Kelsen

  • Principles of International Law

    Hans Kelsen

  • La paz por medio del derecho

    Hans Kelsen

  • Foundations of democracy

    Hans Kelsen

  • Allgemeine Theorie der Normen

    Hans Kelsen;Kurt Ringhofer;Robert Walter;Hans-Kelsen-Institut

  • General Theory of Law and State

    Josef L. Kunz;Hans Kelsen

  • Vom Wesen und Wert der Demokratie

    Hans Kelsen

  • Judicial Review of Legislation: A Comparative Study of the Austrian and the American Constitution

    Hans Kelsen

  • The Law of the United Nations: A Critical Analysis of Its Fundamental Problems

    N. A. M. MacKenzie;H. Kelsen

  • Principles of International Law

    Pitman B. Potter;Hans Kelsen

  • Das Problem der Souveränität und die Theorie des Völkerrechts

    Hans Kelsen

  • The Essence and Value of Democracy

    Hans Kelsen

  • Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre : entwickelt aus der Lehre vom Rechtssatze

    Hans Kelsen

  • Wer soll der Hüter der Verfassung sein

    Hans Kelsen

  • Reine Rechtslehre : Einleitung in die rechtswissenschaftliche Problematik

    Hans Kelsen

  • Der soziologische und der juristische Staatsbegriff : kritische Untersuchung des Verhältnisses von Staat und Recht

    Hans Kelsen

  • Der soziologische und der juristische Staatsbegriff

    Hans Kelsen

  • Was ist Gerechtigkeit

    Hans Kelsen;Robert Walter

  • Die Wiener rechtstheoretische Schule

    Hans R. Klecatsky;René Marcic;Herbert Schambeck;Hans Kelsen

  • Sozialismus und Staat : eine Untersuchung der politischen Theorie des Marxismus

    Hans Kelsen

  • Reine Rechtslehre : mit einem Anhang, Das Problem der Gerechtigkeit

    Hans Kelsen

  • Zur Theorie der juristischen Fiktionen. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Vaihingers Philosophie des Als Ob

    Hans Kelsen

  • Rechtssoziologie und Rechtswissenschaft : eine Kontroverse (1915/17)

    Hans Kelsen;Eugen Ehrlich;Klaus Lüderssen

  • Unrecht und Unrechtsfolge im Völkerrecht

    Hans Kelsen

  • Marx oder Lassalle : Wandlungen in der Politischen Theorie des Marxismus

    Hans Kelsen

  • Österreichisches Staatsrecht : ein Grundriss entwicklungsgeschichtlich Dargestellt

    Hans Kelsen

  • Über Grenzen zwischen juristischer und soziologischer Methode : Vortrag gehalten in der Soziologischen Gesellschaft zu Wien

    Hans Kelsen

  • Die Hellenisch-Makedonische Politik Und Die 'Politik' des Aristoteles

    Hans Kelsen;Aristotle

  • Vom Geltungsgrund des Rechts

    Hans Kelsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Sartori
Giovanni Sartori Columbia University
Quincy Wright
Quincy Wright University of Chicago

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