Kelsen and Morgenthau in America: Betwixt Legal Philosophy and International Politics

Authors

  • Oliver Jütersonke Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15203/ozp.3868.vol51iss3

Keywords:

Hans Kelsen, Hans J. Morgenthau, internationales Recht, Emigration, Rechtsrealismus, internationale Politik

Abstract

Hans Kelsen and his former mentee at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Hans J. Morgenthau, emigrated to the United States in 1937 and 1940, respectively. Both were unable to secure stable academic positions in the law departments of American universities, and they would go on to become professors of political science at Berkeley (Kelsen) and contemporary history at Chicago (Morgenthau). This article traces the ways in which the two legal scholars sought to make sense of their new intellectual environment: by stepping out of American law debates, and by placing the emphasis on the international.

Author Biography

  • Oliver Jütersonke, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

    Oliver Jütersonke is Head of Research at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and Lecturer in the Graduate Institute’s Interdisciplinary Programme. He is the author of Morgenthau, Law and Realism (Cambridge 2010) and numerous publications related to peace-and-security concerns as well as international relations theory.

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Published

2022-09-30

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