文档介绍：Hans Kelsen, the Theory of Law and the International Legal System – A Talk
Norberto Bobbio and Danilo Zolo*
1 Meeting Kelsen
. I believe you met Kelsen only once, in Paris in 1957. Do you remember anything particular about that
meeting?
. That’s true, the only time I actually met Kelsen was in Paris in 1957. The occasion was an international
anized by the Institut International de Philosophie Politique, with René David in the chair and
Raymond Polin, the real promoter of the initiative, as secretary. I immediately signed up. I may not have taken part
in the first of the meetings, but I did attend all of the later ones, which were held at the Fondation Thiers in Paris.
They were fairly restricted seminars, with around twenty people taking part. The proceedings of the meetings were
subsequently published in the Annales de philosophie politique, published by PUF Paris. The theme for 1957 was
le droit naturel.
. Did you have any other contacts, for instance by letter, with Kelsen?
. No. I recall only that at the Paris meeting Kelsen showed he appreciated the arguments in my report on
natural law. And I recall that in his Allgemeine Theorie der Normen, in the 1979 Vienna edition, ments, in
part critically, on a text I had written before the Paris meeting, namely ‘Considérations introductives sur le
raisonnement des juristes’, pub