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VILLA-ROSAS, GONZALO. 24 Questions for Stanley L. Paulson. Rev. Derecho Estado [online]. 2022, n.52, pp.441-462.  Epub Jan 15, 2023. ISSN 0122-9893.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n52.14.

This article corresponds to the Spanish translation of the biographical inter view conducted with Professor Stanley L. Paulson on June 1, 2021, at the University of Kiel (Germany). Professor Dr. Stanley L. Paulson, born in 1941 in Fergus Falls (Minnesota, USA), studied philosophy at the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, taking the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from these institutions. He then studied law, taking the J.D. degree from Harvard University. He began his teaching career in 1972, appointed in the Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1983 he was also appointed professor at the School of Law, and in 2000 he assumed the William Gardiner Hammond Chair at the School of Law. Along with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humani ties, the Fulbright Commission, the Max Planck Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he received the Humboldt Foundation's Research Award in 2003. He is presently a senior researcher and co-director of the Hans Kelsen Research Center, a unit of the Hermann-Kantorowicz Institute for Basic Research in the Faculty of Law, University of Kiel (Germany). With nearly 200 publications in English and German, translated into seven foreign languages, Professor Paulson has focused his scholarly research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Euro pean legal philosophy and theory. A large number of his contributions are devoted to the legal philosophy and constitutional theory of Hans Kelsen. He is a member of the advisory committee of the Hans Kelsen Werke, edited in Freiburg and comprising in over 30 volumes Kelsen's entire œuvre, and he is also an international correspondent of the Hans Kelsen Institute in Vienna. Professor Paulson is internationally recognized as an authority on the history of positivist legal philosophy in Europe.

Keywords : Stanley L. Paulson; Bonnie Litschewski Paulson; biographical interview; University of Kiel; philosophy of law; theory of law; Pure Theory of Law; academic legal translation; legal positivism; Kelsen; Merkl; Schmitt; Radbruch.

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