Hans Kelsen

So then the puzzle is, well, how do we do this? On the one hand, it seems like there's no getting around the fact that sometimes judges, when they make a constitutional ruling, something like a nationwide injunction, they basically do change the law.

And so if they're changing the law, Hans Kelsen, who is an Austrian legal philosopher who designed the first constitutional court in Europe, the Austrian Constitutional Court in 1920, Hans Kelsen said, well, let's just call what judges do or what judicial review.

Let's just be honest.

It's negative law.

These documents and the blunt bureaucratic terms they are filled with have no space for the human details of people's lives.

Otto Bondi had completed doctoral studies in Vienna under Hans Kelsen, one of the world's most famous legal philosophers, who was himself cast into exile.

Otto Bondi would never be a lawyer in Australia, but joining Tamalo Circle in Roseville, alongside Julia Stone, Tony Blackshield and Michael Kirby, meant Bondi found an intellectual community where he could maintain a connection to legal philosophy.

In 1969, Bondi wrote a letter to Hans Kelsen.

Ilmar Tamilo and I naturally have a hard position here in the Australian wilderness, but we have had some success.

Since September 1968, I'm a part-time research fellow of the law faculty.

These documents and the blunt bureaucratic terms they are filled with have no space for the human details of people's lives.

Otto Bondi had completed doctoral studies in Vienna under Hans Kelsen, one of the world's most famous legal philosophers, who was himself cast into exile.

Otto Bondi would never be a lawyer in Australia, but joining Tamelo's circle in Roseville alongside Julius Stone, Tony Blackshield and Michael Kirby meant Bondi found an intellectual community where he could maintain a connection to legal philosophy.

In 1969, Bondi wrote a letter to Hans Kelsen.

Ilma Tamelo and I naturally have a hard position here in the Australian wilderness, but we have had some success.

Since September 1968, I'm a part-time research fellow of the law faculty.