Contents
Part I
Hans Kelsen today: relativism, democracy and Constitution
Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos
Carlos Miguel Herrera
Hans Kelsen and the reductio ad Hitlerum: reflections on the incompatibility between legal positivism and political totalitarianism
Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos
H. Kelsen and C. Schmitt on Rousseau: democracy in dark times discussed
Carlos Miguel Herrera
Kelsen’s two arguments
Eerik Lagerspetz
Kelsen and the justice
Hannele Isola-Miettinen
Hans Kelsen’s concept of the federal State: constitutional aspects
Nicoletta Bersier Ladavac
Part II
Politics is conflict: Carl Schmitt and our time
Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos
Roberto Bueno
Exception of the exception: Carl Schmitt and the limits of law
Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos
The nomos of the private sovereign: supra State recomposition of sovereignty and new forms of legal regulation
Antonio Giménez Merino
Discussion, conflict and exception: Carl Schmitt and the not quite new paradigm of lawmaking
Eduardo Carone Costa Júnior
Carl Schmitt: critic of positivism
Fernando José Armando Ribeiro
From Enemy to Xenos: the evolution of a Schmittian category
Jacopo Martire
The politics as authoritarianism: the shared project of Donoso Cortés and Jaime Balmes in the shade of Carl Schmitt
Roberto Bueno