Der Band vereint in sich die Beiträge einer international hochkarätig besetzten Tagung über das Umfeld von Kelsen und Schmitt vom Januar 1997 in Tel Aviv. Nachdenklich stimmt eine Bemerkung der Herausgeber im Vorwort: "Unlike other publications within the Schriftenreihe, the present volume is appearing in English rather than German. In departing from the usual practice, we have endeavored to also address the younger generation of legal scholars, historians and social scientists dealing with the subjects of legal theory and legal history." (7) Und die können offenbar kein Deutsch lesen? Inhalt: Manfred Baldus: Habsburgian Multiethnicity and the "Unity of the State" - On the Structural Setting of Kelsen's Legal Thought (13-25); Stanley L. Paulson: On the Origins of Hans Kelsen's Spätlehre (27-44); Walter Pauly: Concepts of Universality - Hans Kelsen on Sovereignty and International Order (45-50); Clemens Jabloner: Legal Techniques and Theory of Civilization - Reflections on Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt (51-60); Claude Klein: "The Eternal Constitution" - Constrasting Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt (61-70); Horst Dreier: The Essence of Democracy - Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt Juxtaposed (71-79); Michel Troper: "The Guardian on the Constitution" - Hans Kelsen's Evaluation of a Legal Concept (81-100); Raphael Gross: "Jewish Law and Christian Grace" - Carl Schmitt's Critique of Hans Kelsen (101-113); Bernd Rüthers: On the Brink of Dictatorship - Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt in Cologne 1933 (115-122); Michael Stolleis: A Critique from the "Wiener Kreis" - Margit Kraft-Fuchs (1902-1994) on Carl Schmitt (123-131); Izhak Englard: Nazi Criticism Against the Normativist Theory of Hans Kelsen - Its Intellectual Basis and Post-Modern Tendencies (133-188).