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Nowhere to Go but Back, Nowhere to Go but Forward: The Circular Stance of the Law in the Thought of Hans Kelsen

Paul Piccone's most enduring allegiances were to a vision and a politics of radical democracy in which prospects of equality were extended to more and more citizens and in which political participation became the lay norm, rather than the professional exception. Hans Kelsen was a leading liberal-democratic legal theorist of the 20th century whose thought, when analytically reconstructed, yields powerful intimations of how liberal democracy theoretically construed generates the resources out of which radical democracy can be fashioned. In paying homage to Paul, I would like to explore these transitions between liberal democracy and radical democracy, focusing on the work...