Hans Kelsen and the natural law tradition / / edited by Peter Langford, Ian Bryan, John McGarry.

• Author: Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition (Conference) Edge Hill University).
• TeilnehmendeR: Langford, Peter,; Bryan, Ian.; McGarry, John (Law teacher),; Edge Hill University,; Austrian Cultural Forum (London, England),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Moral Philosophy 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (555 pages).
• Notes: Includes papers presented at "Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition : An International, Interdisciplinary Conference" hosted at Edge Hill University, UK in September 2013.--ECIP Acknowledgements.

Hans Kelsen and the Natural Law Tradition provides the first sustained examination of Hans Kelsen’s critical engagement, itself founded upon a distinctive theory of legal positivism, with the Natural Law Tradition. This edited collection commences with a comprehensive introduction which establishes the character of Kelsen’s critical engagement as a general critique of natural law combined with a more specific critique of representative thinkers of the Natural Law Tradition. The subsequent chapters are then devoted to a detailed analysis of Kelsen’s engagement with prominent theorists from the Natural Law Tradition. The volume concludes with an exploration, focusing upon the delineation of a non-positivist legal theory in the debate between Robert Alexy and Joseph Raz, of the continued presence of Kelsenian legal positivism in contemporary legal theory.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Kelsenian Critique of Natural Law / Peter Langford and Ian Bryan -- Aristotle, Dante and Kelsen -- Kelsen’s Blind Spot for the Pluralism of Antiquity / Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer -- To the Roots of the Universal Juridical Order: Hans Kelsen and the Staatslehre of Dante Alighieri / Maurizio Cau -- Kelsen and Early Modern and Enlightenment Theories of Natural Law -- Comments on the Kelsenian Idea of Natural Law in the Light of Althusius’ Theory of Law / Gaëlle Demelemestre -- From Wolff to Kelsen: The Transformation of the Notion of Civitas Maxima / Peter Langford and Ian Bryan -- Hans Kelsen and the Requirement of Self-determination: How the Austrian Jurist Takes Inspiration from Rousseau and How He Emancipates Himself from the Swiss Philosopher / Sandrine Baume -- Kelsen versus Kant on the Nature of Law / Joachim Renzikowski -- Grounding the Normativity of Law: The Role of Transcendental Argumentation in Kelsen’s Critique of Natural Law Theory / Ana Dimiškovska -- Kelsen, Neo-Kantianism and Schmitt -- Hans Kelsen and Southwest German Neo-Kantianism on Natural Law: Transcendental Philosophy beyond Metaphysics and Positivism / Christian Krijnen -- Hans Kelsen’s and Ernst Cassirer’s Conception of Natural Law / Pellegrino Favuzzi -- Nomos or Law? Hans Kelsen’s Criticism of Carl Schmitt’s Metaphysics of Law and Politics / Gerhard Donhauser -- The Trouble with Nature / Mariano Croce -- Kelsen’s Natural Law -- Natural Law and the Vienna School: Hans Kelsen, Alfred Verdross, and Eric Voegelin / Franz Leander Fillafer and Johannes Feichtinger -- Against Natural Law: The Political Implications of Kelsen’s Legal Positivism / Sara Lagi -- Hans Kelsen and Leo Strauss on Naturrecht and the Post-theological Wager / Peter Gostmann -- Conclusion: Beyond Legal Positivism and Natural Law? / Peter Langford and Ian Bryan -- Back Matter -- Index.