Hans Kelsen
Hans Kelsen Hans Kelsen was born in Prague on 11 October 1881 and died in Orinda, California, on 19 April 1973. Raised in Vienna, he became professor of public law at the University of Vienna, where he founded the so-called Vienna School of legal positivism. He was the principal drafter of the Austrian Constitution of 1920 and sat on the Austrian Constitutional Court (1920–1930), the model of concentrated constitutional adjudication. Removed from the court in 1930, he taught at Cologne until dismissed by the Nazi regime in 1933; he passed through Geneva and Prague and emigrated to the United States in 1940, where he was a professor at Berkeley (from 1945). ...