Kelsen, Hans Keywords: Public international law | Legal theory | Mots clefs: Droit international public | Théorie du droit | ABSTRACT Hans Kelsen devotes his course to the presentation of the theory of international law. He seeks to answer the following questions: What is the nature of international law? Is it a right in the true sense of the word; that is to say, is it comparable to domestic law by being like it and to the same extent mandatory for the subjects submitted to it? Hans Kelsen thus examines how interna…

Kelsen, Hans Keywords: Public international law | Mots clefs: Droit international public | ABSTRACT In this course on General Theory of Public International Law, Hans Kelsen does not intend to make a presentation of positive international law. He presents a theory, that is to say, an examination of the nature of international law, its originality, which separates it from the norms that we are accustomed to consider as the law par excellence, from the norms of state law. Hans Kelsen successively examines, from…