| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1934 |
| Number: | 23 - 2 |
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Hans Kelsen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1881 |
| Year, Death: | 1973 |
| Profession: | Jurist, teacher and legal philosopher |
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) |
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| Motivation: | Kelsen had established a constitutional school based on his doctrine of government (the Viennese school). Kelsen stated that a theory of law should validate and give order to law itself, and his doctrine sought to understand the state from a juridical viewpoint not depending on political, social and psychological arrangements. An ardent supporter of a law reaching beyond the single states, Kelsen stressed the importance of establishing a system of international law emancipated from any political views. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Fredrik Lagerroth |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of Political Science |
| University: | Lund University |
| City: | Lund |
| Country: | SWEDEN (SE) |
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| Comments: |
Kelsen fled when the Nazis had rose to power. After immigrating to the United States in 1940, he taught at Harvard, Berkeley and the Naval War College in Newport.
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