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Chwaszcza, Christine ORCID: 0000-0003-3847-3148 (2017). Kelsen on Democracy in Light of Contemporary Theories of Human Rights. In: Kelsenian Legal Science and the Nature of Law, pp. 193-212. Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-51817-6

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Abstract

There is little agreement in contemporary political philosophy about how to conceive of human rights, except for a shared concern for freeing the concept of human rights from the legacy of traditional natural law theories. Even so, there is no place for anything like a reconciliation of Kelsen’s political-legal theory and contemporary concepts of human rights. The reason is not that Kelsen’s well-known and notorious criticism of various natural law traditions applies equally to contemporary philosophy of human rights, but that Kelsen’s account of democracy is incompatible with the idea of human rights.

Item Type:	Book Section, Proceedings Item or annotation in a legal commentary
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Chwaszcza, Christine christine.chwaszcza@uni-koeln.de orcid.org/0000-0003-3847-3148 UNSPECIFIED
Editors:	Editors Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Langford, Peter UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Bryan, Ian UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED McGarry, John UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-455332
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-319-51817-6_11
Title of Book:	Kelsenian Legal Science and the Nature of Law
Page Range:	pp. 193-212
Date:	2017
Publisher:	Springer
ISBN:	978-3-319-51817-6
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 8: Philosophie > Philosophisches Seminar
Subjects:	Philosophy
Refereed:	No
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/45533