by Hans Kelsen · TROTTA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481645729
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«La paz por medio del derecho» is Hans Kelsen's essay on international law, published by Trotta in paperback (160 pages, in Spanish).
A manifesto in favor of international law to prevent war between states. Written before the end of World War II, it argues that aggressive war is a crime against peace and advocates a permanent international court; its theses influenced the Nuremberg trials and the founding of the United Nations.
Second edition, with an introduction by Massimo La Torre and Cristina García Pascual, in the collection «Estructuras y Procesos. Derecho».
For readers interested in international law, philosophy of law, and the history of international institutions.
Hans Kelsen was an Austrian and later American jurist, legal philosopher and political philosopher. He is known principally for his theory of law, which he named the "pure theory of law ", and for his writings on international law and theory of democracy.
