Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1936
Number:15 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Hans Kelsen
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1881
Year, Death:1973
Profession:Jurist, teacher and legal philosopher
Country:AUSTRIA (AT)
 
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.
 
Nominator 1:
Name:Einar Tegen
Gender:M
Profession:Professor of Philosophy
University:Lund University
City:Lund
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
Nominator 2:
Name:Fredrik Lagerroth
Gender:M
Profession:Professor of Political Science
University:Lund University
City:Lund
Country:SWEDEN (SE)
 
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.