Bibliographic Essay 593and Politics (George Allen and Unwin, 1932), 262– 69. On the life and career of Kelsen
in par tic u lar, see Rudolf Aládar Métall, Hans Kelsen: Leben und Werk (F. Deutike,
1969), although this work is thought to be unsatisfactory by many of Kelsen’s follow-
ers. See also Jörg Kammerhofer, “Hans Kelsen’s Place in International Legal Th eory,”
in Orakhelashvili (ed.), Research Handbook, 143– 67; Peter Langford and Ian Bryan,
“Hans Kelsen’s Th eory of Legal Monism: A Critical Engagement with the Emerging
Legal Order of the 1920s,” 14 JHIL 51– 86 (2012); and Nijman, Concept, 149 – 92.
Georges Scelle is another lawyer who has received signifi cant attention. For excel-
lent overviews of his thought, see Walter Schiff er, Th e Legal Community of Mankind:
A Critical Analysis of the Modern Concept of World Or ga ni za tion (Columbia Univer-
sity Press, 1954), 258– 77; and Nijman, Concept, 216– 25. For a more thorough exposi-
tion, see Anja Wüst, Das völkerrechtliche Werk von Georges Scelle im Frankreich der
Zwischenkriegszeit (Nomos 2007). Volume 1 of the Eu ro pe an Journal of International
Law contained a number of articles on Scelle, including H. Th ierry, “Th e Th ought of
Georges Scelle,” 1 EJIL 193– 209 (1990); and Antonio Cassese, “Remarks on Scelle’s
Th eory of ‘Role Splitting’ (dédoublement fonctionnel) in International Law,” 1 EJIL
210– 31 (1990). See also Charles Rousseau, “Georges Scelle (1878– 1961),” 65 RGDIP 5–
19 (1961); and N. Kasirer, “A Reading of Georges Scelle’s Précis de droit des gens,” 24
Canadian Y.B. Int’l L. 372– 385 (1986).
On socialist views of international law, there is a fairly considerable literature. See
T. A. Taracouzio, Th e Soviet Union and International Law: A Study Based on the Legis-
lation, Treaties and Foreign Relations of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Mac-
millan, 1935); T. A. Taracouzio, “Th e Eff ect of Applied Communism on the Principles
of International Law,” 28 ASIL Procs. 105– 20 (1934); Ivo Lapenna, Les conceptions so-
viétiques de droit international public (A. Pedone, 1954); John N. Hazard, “Cleansing
Soviet International Law of Anti- Marxist Th eories,” 32 AJIL 244– 52 (1938); John Haz-
ard, “Th e Soviet Union and International Law,” 1 Soviet Studies 189– 99 (1950); Zofi a
Maclure, “Soviet International Legal Th eory— Past and Present,” 5 Fletcher Forum
49– 73 (1981); and Kazimierz Grzybowski, Soviet Public International Law: Doctrines
and Diplomatic Practice (A. W. Sijthoff , 1970). For especially critical accounts, see Hans
Kelsen, Th e Communist Th eory of Law (Stevens and Sons (1955), 148– 92; and Jean Yves
Calvez, Droit international et souverainete en U.R.S.S.: L’evolution de l’ideologie ju-
ridique sovietique depuis la Revolution d’Octobre (A. Colin, 1953). On war and neutral-
ity, see P. H. Vigor, Th e Soviet View of War, Peace and Neutrality (Routledge and Kegan
Paul, 1975); and D. Fedotoff White, “Soviet Philosophy of War,” 51 Pol. Sci. Q. 321– 53
(1936). On treaties, see J. F. Triska and R. M. Slusser, Th e Th eory, Law and Policy of So-
viet Treaties (Stanford University Press, 1962); and Robert W. Slusser, and Jan F. Triska,
“Treaties and Other Sources of Order in International Relations: Th e Soviet View,” 52
AJIL 699– 726 (1958). On international organizations, see Charles Prince, “Th e U.S.S.R.
and International Organizations,” 36 AJIL 425– 45 (1941).
On Korovin, see Kelsen, Communist Th eory, 156– 76; Mintauts Chakste, “Soviet Con-
cepts of the State, International Law, and Sovereignty,” 43 AJIL 21– 36 (1949), 23– 30;