Table Of ContentThe Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political
Hans Kelsen and Max Weber are conventionally understood as the original
proponents of two distinct and opposed processes of concept formation generat-
ing two separate and contrasting theoretical frameworks for the study of law. The
Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political: Affinity and Divergence in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber
contests the conventional understanding of the theoretical relationship between
Kelsen’s legal positivism and Weber’s sociology of law. Utilizing the conceptual
frame of the juridico-political, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume
analyse central points of affinity and divergence in the work of these two influen-
tial figures. Thus, the chapters collected in The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political
offer a comprehensive reconsideration of these affinities and divergences, through
a comparison of their respective reconstruction of the notions of democracy, the
State, legal rights and the character of law. From this reconsideration a more
complex understanding of their theoretical relationship emerges combined with
a renewed emphasis upon the continued contemporary relevance of the work of
Kelsen and Weber.
Ian Bryan is Senior Lecturer in Law, Law School, Lancaster University, UK.
Peter Langford is Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Law and Criminology,
Edge Hill University, UK.
John McGarry is Reader in Law, Department of Law and Criminology, Edge
Hill University, UK.
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The Reconstruction of the
Juridico-Political
Affinity and Divergence in
Hans Kelsen and Max Weber
Edited by
Ian Bryan, Peter Langford and
John McGarry
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1. Law–Philosophy. 2. Law–Political aspects. 3. Legal positivism.
4. Sociological jurisprudence. 5. Kelsen, Hans, 1881–1973 6. Weber,
Max, 1864–1920 I. Bryan, Ian. II. Langford, Peter. III. McGarry, John.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on contributors viii
Introduction: affinity and divergence 1
IAN BRYAN, PETER LANGFORD AND JOHN MCGARRY
PART I
Hans Kelsen, Max Weber and democracy 25
1 Führerprinzip and democracy in Weber and Kelsen 27
ANTONINO SCALONE
2 Democracy within pluralism: Hans Kelsen on civil society
and civic friendship 44
ELIF ÖZMEN
PART II
Hans Kelsen, Max Weber and the State 59
3 Max Weber’s conception of the State: the State as Anstalt
and as validated conception with special reference to
Kelsen’s critique of Weber 61
HUBERT TREIBER
4 Kelsen reading Weber: is a sociological concept of the State
possible? 98
CATHERINE COLLIOT- THÉLÈNE
vi Contents
5 Kelsen, Weber and the problem of the emergence of the State 110
MICHEL TROPER
PART III
Hans Kelsen, Max Weber and rights 123
6 The State under the rule of law? The relationship of State
and law in the work of Hans Kelsen and Georg Jellinek 125
GERHARD DONHAUSER
7 Human rights and subjective rights: affinities in Max
Weber and Georg Jellinek 140
KATHRIN GROH
PART IV
Hans Kelsen, Max Weber and the character of law 161
8 Max Weber and Hans Kelsen: formal rationality and
legitimacy of modern law 163
MICHEL COUTU
9 Using Weber’s and Kelsen’s schemas for legal history 179
JEAN- LOUIS HALPÉRIN
Index 195
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Colin Perrin, Commissioning Editor at Routledge, for his
support regarding this contribution and also Rebekah Jenkins and Laura Muir,
former and present Editorial Assistants, for their assistance and patience during
the preparation and submission of the manuscript. We would also like to express
our gratitude to the contributors to this volume, both for their support for our
project and for their incisive and original contributions. We would like to thank
Edge Hill University for its financial and administrative support which enabled
the conference Hans Kelsen and Max Weber: Convergences and Divergences in Conceptions
of the Juridico-Political to take place in July 2012. Many of the papers contained in
this volume were presented at the conference.
In addition to the aforementioned, Peter would like to acknowledge and thank
all his friends for their interest and encouragement; and to thank his father for his
support throughout this book project. Ian would like to express his profound grati-
tude to family and friends for their insightful comments and unfailing kindness.
John would like to thank his family, Clare, Joe, Joan and Ken for their support
and patience.
Ian, Peter and John
June 2015
Notes on contributors
Ian Bryan is Senior Lecturer in Law, Law School, Lancaster University. His
teaching, research and publication activities span a wide range of fields, includ-
ing the administration of criminal justice, criminal law, the laws of evidence,
legal history, human rights and legal theory.
Catherine Colliot- Thélène is Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philo-
sophy, University of Rennes 1, France. She has translated a number of Max
Weber’s works into French, and published widely on the work of Max Weber
and in the area of political philosophy. Her books include Le désenchantement de
l’État. De Hegel à Max Weber (Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 1992); Etudes wébériennes:
Rationalités, histoires, droits (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001); La
démocratie sans demos (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2011); and (editor
with F. Guénard) Peuples et populisme (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
2014).
Michel Coutu is a Full Professor of Labour Law, School of Industrial Relations,
Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Montreal, Canada. He has pub-
lished extensively in the areas of sociology of law (including papers on Max
Weber in the Journal of Law and Society), labour law theory, human rights and
collective bargaining legislation. His books include Max Weber et les rationalités
du droit (Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 1995); a transla-
tion of Max Weber, Rudolf Stammler et le matérialisme historique (Paris: Editions du
Cerf, 2003); (editor with G. Rocher) La légitimité de l’Etat et du droit: Autour de Max
Weber (Paris: Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, 2006); and (editor
with G. Murray) La citoyenneté au travail: Quel avenir? (Québec: Les Presses de
l’Université Laval, 2010).
Gerhard Donhauser is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Law, specializing in
legal theory, at the Universities of Innsbruck and Klagenfurt and a Researcher
at the Hans Kelsen Institute, Vienna, Austria. He has published widely in the
areas of philosophy of law, legal theory and political science. His books include
Türhüter: Wie Recht wird, was es ist (Vienna: New Academic Press, 2013); Angst und
Schrecken: Beobachtungen auf dem Weg vom Ausnahmezustand zum Polizeistaat in Europa
Notes on contributors ix
und den USA (Vienna: New Academic Press, 2015); and Wer hat Recht?: Eine
Einführung in die Rechtsphilosophie (Vienna: New Academic Press, 2015).
Kathrin Groh is Professor of Public Law, Universität der Bundeswehr,
Munich, Germany. She has published widely in the areas of constitutional
and political theory. Her publications include Selbstschutz der Verfassung gegen
Religionsgemeinschaften: Vom Religionsprivileg des Vereinsgesetzes zum Vereinigungsverbot
(Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2004); (with C. Weinbach) Zur Genealogie des
politischen Raums. Politische Strukturen im Wandel (Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2005);
(co- editor) Die Europäische Verfassung – Verfassungen in Europa (Baden- Baden:
Nomos, 2005); and Demokratische Staatsrechtslehrer in der Weimarer Republik: Von
der konstitutionellen Staatslehre zur Theorie des modernen demokratischen Verfassungsstaats
(Hugo Preuß, Gerhard Anschütz, Richard Thoma, Hans Kelsen und Hermann Heller)
(Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010).
Jean- Louis Halpérin is Professor of Law, Department of Social Sciences,
l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. He has published extensively in
the areas of modern legal history (eighteenth to twentieth centuries), com-
parative law and legal theory. His books include L’impossible Code civil (Paris:
Presses Universitaires de France, 1992); Entre nationalisme juridique et commu-
nauté de droit (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1999); Histoire des droits en
Europe: De 1750 à nos jours (Paris: Flammarion, 2005); Histoire du droit des biens
(Paris: Economica, 2008); Profils des mondialisations du droit (Paris: Dalloz- Sirey,
2009); and Histoire du droit privé français depuis 1804, 3rd edition (Paris: Presses
Universitaires de France); Five Legal Revolutions since the 17th Century. An Analysis of
a Global Legal History (Dordrecht: Springer, 2014).
Peter Langford is Senior Lecturer in Law, Department of Law and Criminology,
Edge Hill University, UK. He has published in the areas of human rights and
legal theory. In the area of legal theory, he has published a book on the work of
the contemporary Italian philosopher, Roberto Esposito, Roberto Esposito: Law,
Community and the Political (London: Routledge, 2015).
John McGarry is Reader in Law, Department of Law and Criminology,
Edge Hill University, UK. He has published in the areas of public law and
jurisprudence.
Elif Özmen is Professor of Practical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy,
University of Regensburg, Germany. She has published widely in the areas
of moral philosophy, ethics and political and social philosophy. Her books
include (editor) Hans Kelsens Politische Philosophie (forthcoming 2016); (editor)
Über Menschliches. Anthropologie zwischen Natur und Utopie (Münster: Mentis, 2015);
Politische Philosophie zur Einführung (Hamburg: Junius, 2013); Moral, Rationalität
und Gelungenes Leben (Paderborn: Mentis, 2005).
Antonino Scalone is Professor of Public Law, Department of Public, International
and Community Law, University of Padua, Italy. He has published widely in
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