1920 Das Problem der Souveränität und die Theorie des Völkerrechts (1920).

1934 Reine Rechtslehre, Vienna 1934. Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory (1934; Litschewski Paulson
and Paulson trans.), Oxford 1992; the translators have adopted the subtitle, Einleitung in die
rechtswissenschaftliche Problematik, in order to avoid confusion with the English translation of the second
edition.
1942 Law and Peace in International Relations, Cambridge (Mass.) 1942, Union (N.J.) 1997.
1943 Society and Nature. 1943, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2009 ISBN 1584779861
1944 Peace Through Law, Chapel Hill 1944, Union (N.J.) 2000.
1948 The Political Theory of Bolshevism: A Critical Analysis, University of California Press 1948, The
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2011.
1950 The Law of the United Nations. First published under the auspices of The London Institute of World
Affairs in 1950. With a supplement, Recent Trends in the Law of the United Nations [1951]. A critical,
detailed, highly technical legal analysis of the United Nations charter and organization. Originally
published conjointly: New York: Frederick A. Praeger, [1964].
1957 What is Justice?, Berkeley 1957.
1960 Reine Rechtslehre, 2nd edn Vienna 1960 (much expanded from 1934 and effectively a different book);
Studienausgabe with amendments, Vienna 2017
1960 Pure Theory of Law (1960; Knight trans.), Berkeley 1967, Union (N.J.) 2002.
1960 Théorie pure du droit (1960; Eisenmann French trans.), Paris 1962.
1961 General Theory of Law and State (German original unpublished; Wedberg trans.), 1945, New York 1961,
Clark (N.J.) 2007.
1964 'The Function of a Constitution' (1964; Stewart trans.) in Richard Tur and William Twining (eds), Essays
on Kelsen, Oxford 1986; also in 5th and later editions of Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence, London
(currently 8th ed 2008).
1973 Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy (Weinberger sel., Heath trans.), Dordrecht 1973.
1977 Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977.
1977 The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy). Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
1978 Theorie der juristischen Argumentation. Die Theorie des rationalen Diskurses als Theorie der juristischen
Begründung (Suhrkamp, 1983; first edition 1978)
1979 Allgemeine Theorie der Normen (ed. Ringhofer and Walter), Vienna 1979; see English translation in 1990
below.
1979 General Theory of Norms (1979; Hartney trans.), Oxford 1990.
1985 A Matter of Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985.
1986 Law's Empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
1987 Philosophical Issues in Senile Dementia. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.
1988 Die Rolle des Neukantianismus in der Reinen Rechtslehre: eine Debatte zwischen Sander und Kelsen
(German Edition) by Hans Kelsen and Fritz Sander (Dec 31, 1988).
1989 Translated by Neil MacCormick as "A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse
as Theory of Legal Justification" (Clarendon, 1989)
1990 A Bill of Rights for Britain. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
1992 Begriff und Geltung des Rechts (Verlag Karl Alber, 1992)
1993 Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. New York: Alfred
A. Knopf, 1993.
1993 Mauerschützen (Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1993)
1994 Theorie der Grundrechte (Suhrkamp, 1985; second edition 1994)
1995 Recht, Vernunft, Diskurs (Suhrkamp, 1995)
1996 Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 1996.
1996 Der Beschluß des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu den Tötungen an der innerdeutschen Grenze vom 24.
Oktober 1996 (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1997)
2000 Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University
Press, 2000.
2002 A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy. Ed. New
York: New Press, 2002.
2002 Translated by Julian Rivers as "A Theory of Constitutional Rights" (Oxford University Press, 2002)
2002 Translated by Stanley Paulson and Bonnie Litschewski Paulson as "The Argument from Injustice: A Reply
to Legal Positivism" (Oxford University Press, 2002)
2003 Elemente einer juristischen Begründungslehre, co-edited with Hans-Joachim Koch, Lothar Kuhlen and
Helmut Rüßmann (Nomos, 2003)
2004 From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis. Ed. Budapest: Central
European University Press, 2004.
2006 Justice in Robes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.
2006 Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
University Press, 2006.
2007 George Pavlakos (ed), Law, Rights and Discourse: The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy (Hart Publishing,
2007)
2008 The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc. New York: New York Review Books,
2008.
2011 Justice for Hedgehogs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
2012 Secular Religion: a Polemic against the Misinterpretation of Modern Social Philosophy, Science, and
Politics as "New Religions" (ed. Walter, Jabloner and Zeleny), Vienna and New York 2012 (written in
English), revised edition 2017.
2012 Matthias Klatt (ed), Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (Oxford University Press,
2012)
2013 Religion Without God. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013.
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1944

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1960
1960
1960

1961
1957

1964
1973

1979

1988
1979

2012
Das Problem der Souveränität und die Theorie des Völkerrechts (1920).
Reine Rechtslehre, Vienna 1934. Introduction to the Problems of Legal Theory (1934; Litschewski Paulson and
Paulson trans.), Oxford 1992; the translators have adopted the subtitle, Einleitung in die rechtswissenschaftliche
Problematik, in order to avoid confusion with the English translation of the second edition.

Law and Peace in International Relations, Cambridge (Mass.) 1942, Union (N.J.) 1997.
Society and Nature. 1943, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. 2009 ISBN 1584779861
Peace Through Law, Chapel Hill 1944, Union (N.J.) 2000.
The Political Theory of Bolshevism: A Critical Analysis, University of California Press 1948, The Lawbook
Exchange, Ltd. 2011.
The Law of the United Nations. First published under the auspices of The London Institute of World Affairs in 195
With a supplement, Recent Trends in the Law of the United Nations [1951]. A critical, detailed, highly technical le
analysis of the United Nations charter and organization. Originally published conjointly: New York: Frederick A.
Praeger, [1964].
Reine Rechtslehre (Pure Theory of Law), 2nd edn Vienna 1960 (much expanded from 1934 and effectively a
different book); Studienausgabe with amendments, Vienna 2017 ISBN 978-3-16-152973-3
Pure Theory of Law (1960; Knight trans.), Berkeley 1967, Union (N.J.) 2002.
Théorie pure du droit (1960; Eisenmann French trans.), Paris 1962. (Pure Theory of Law)
General Theory of Law and State (German original unpublished; Wedberg trans.), 1945, New York 1961, Clark
(N.J.) 2007.
What is Justice?, Berkeley 1957.
'The Function of a Constitution' (1964; Stewart trans.) in Richard Tur and William Twining (eds), Essays on Kelse
Oxford 1986; also in 5th and later editions of Lloyd's Introduction to Jurisprudence, London (currently 8th ed 200

Essays in Legal and Moral Philosophy (Weinberger sel., Heath trans.), Dordrecht 1973.
Allgemeine Theorie der Normen (ed. Ringhofer and Walter), Vienna 1979; see English translation in 1990 below.

Die Rolle des Neukantianismus in der Reinen Rechtslehre: eine Debatte zwischen Sander und Kelsen (German
Edition) by Hans Kelsen and Fritz Sander (Dec 31, 1988).
General Theory of Norms (1979; Hartney trans.), Oxford 1990.
Secular Religion: a Polemic against the Misinterpretation of Modern Social Philosophy, Science, and Politics as
"New Religions" (ed. Walter, Jabloner and Zeleny), Vienna and New York 2012 (written in English), revised editio
2017.
1978
1989
1994
2002
1993
1995
1996
1992
2002
2003

2007
2012
Theorie der juristischen Argumentation. Die Theorie des rationalen Diskurses als Theorie der juristischen Begründun
Translated by Neil MacCormick as "A Theory of Legal Argumentation: The Theory of Rational Discourse as Theory of Legal Justi
Theorie der Grundrechte (Suhrkamp, 1985; second edition 1994)
Translated by Julian Rivers as "A Theory of Constitutional Rights" (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Mauerschützen (Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht, 1993)
Recht, Vernunft, Diskurs (Suhrkamp, 1995)
Der Beschluß des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu den Tötungen an der innerdeutschen Grenze vom 24. Oktober 19
Begriff und Geltung des Rechts (Verlag Karl Alber, 1992)
Translated by Stanley Paulson and Bonnie Litschewski Paulson as "The Argument from Injustice: A Reply to Legal Positivism" (O
Elemente einer juristischen Begründungslehre, co-edited with Hans-Joachim Koch, Lothar Kuhlen and Helmut Rüßm

George Pavlakos (ed), Law, Rights and Discourse: The Legal Philosophy of Robert Alexy (Hart Publishing, 2007)
Matthias Klatt (ed), Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (Oxford University Press, 2012)
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1985
1986
1987
1990
1993
1996
2000
2006
2006
2008
2011
2013

1977
2002
2004
Taking Rights Seriously. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1977.
A Matter of Principle. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Law's Empire. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Philosophical Issues in Senile Dementia. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.
A Bill of Rights for Britain. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Justice in Robes. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2
The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court's New Right-Wing Bloc. New York: New York Review Books, 2008.
Justice for Hedgehogs. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Religion Without God. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2013.

Editor
The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy). Ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
A Badly Flawed Election: Debating Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court, and American Democracy. Ed. New York: New
From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis. Ed. Budapest: Central European University