Lars Vinx is a University Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law: Legality and Legitimacy (2007), and also prepared an English language translation of the debate between Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on constitutional guardianship (The Guardian of the Constitution. Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law, 2015). Samuel Garrett Zeitlin is Hong Kong Link Early Career Research Fellow and a College Lecturer in Politics at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His publications include editions and translations of Carl Schmitt's Land and Sea (2015) and The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts (2018), as well as articles in History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, Politisches Denken Jahrbuch and Modern Intellectual History.

'… a unique perspective on contemporary political and legal thought.' Eduardo Schmidt Passos, Contemporary Political Theory

• 1. Introduction: Carl Schmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law; 2. Statute and Judgment; 3. The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual.

Lars Vinx is a University Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Hans Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law: Legality and Legitimacy (2007), and also prepared an English language translation of the debate between Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on constitutional guardianship (The Guardian of the Constitution. Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law, 2015). Samuel Garrett Zeitlin is Hong Kong Link Early Career Research Fellow and a College Lecturer in Politics at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. His publications include editions and translations of Carl Schmitt's Land and Sea (2015) and The Tyranny of Values and Other Texts (2018), as well as articles in History of Political Thought, The Review of Politics, Politisches Denken Jahrbuch and Modern Intellectual History.

'… a unique perspective on contemporary political and legal thought.' Eduardo Schmidt Passos, Contemporary Political Theory

• 1. Introduction: Carl Schmitt and the Problem of the Realization of Law; 2. Statute and Judgment; 3. The Value of the State and the Significance of the Individual.