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A philosopher and jurist by training, Otto Pfersmann is Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law and Legal Theory at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, having worked as a researcher and taught in Vienna, Aix-en-Provence, Lyon and Oxford.
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Against Legal Neo-Realism. For a Debate on Interpretation
In Revue française de droit constitutionnel (2002/4 No 52)
A Theory Void of Subject, a Dogma Void of Theory
In Response to Michel Troper
In Revue française de droit constitutionnel (2002/4 No 52)
Against Legal Neo-Realism
For a Debate on Interpretation
In Revue française de droit constitutionnel (2002/2 No 50)
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From the Convention for the Prevention and Repression of the crime of genocide to the controversy around the Middle East conflict
In Cités (2024/4 No 100)
Dina Khapaeva, Crimes sans châtiment. Aux sources du poutinisme, transl. Fr. Nina Kehayan, La Tour d’Aigues, Éditions de l’Aube, 2024
In Cités (2024/2 No 98)
Between moral certitude and strict discontinuity: raison d’État in Germany after 1945
In Cités (2023/2 No 94)
Post-election legitimacy and citizen duty
In Cités (2019/3 No 79)
The paradox of Japan’s constitutional conception. Pacifism as the foundation of militarisation
In Cités (2018/3 No 75)
Presentation
In Cités (2017/1 No 69)
On the State of Emergency and Loss of Nationality
In Cités (2016/2 No 66)
After Michel Villey, Philosophy of Law Today
In Cités (2014/2 No 58)
The Bureaucratic Hegemony of Research Centers
In Cités (2012/2 No 50)
The Constitutional Enigma of Israel and Theodor Herzl's Constitutional Policy
In Cités (2011/3 No 47-48)
Legal Norms and Political Relativism in Democracy
In Cités (2011/3 No 47-48)
Much Ado about a Nonexistent Legal Object: No Revision of Bioethical Laws
In Cités (2011/3 No 47-48)
The Norm of Secrecy, Secret Norms, and the Modern State
In Cités (2006/2 No 26)
Against Legal Neo-Realism. For a Debate on Interpretation
In Revue française de droit constitutionnel (2002/4 No 52)
A Theory Void of Subject, a Dogma Void of Theory
In Response to Michel Troper
In Revue française de droit constitutionnel (2002/4 No 52)
Against Legal Neo-Realism
For a Debate on Interpretation
In Revue française de droit constitutionnel (2002/2 No 50)