Hans Kelsen: Legal Scholar and Democracy Defender
This is a review essay of Horst Dreier’s Hans Kelsen zur Einführung. His book is focused on Kelsen’s ‘Reine Rechtslehre’, Kelsen’s constitutional work, his writings on international law, and as a theorist and advocate of democracy. Dreier’s Hans Kelsen zur Einführung is more than an ‘introduction’, it is a comprehensive investigation into Kelsen’s legal and political thinking and shows that as much as Kelsen deserves the title of ‘jurist of the Twentieth Century’, he deserves to be known for much more.
Authors
- Christopher Adair‐Toteff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3274-8529)
Institutions
- University of South Florida (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- History of European Ideas
- Published
- 2026-08-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01916599.2026.2722011
- Primary Topic
- Law and Political Science
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00