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Christopher Adair-Toteff

Christopher Adair-Toteff is a Fellow at the Center for Social and Political Thought at the University of South Florida and the author of numerous publications, most recently, Dictatorial Power and States of Exception in the Weimar Republic (Routledge, 2025) and The Guardian of the Constitution Controversy: Kelsen contra Schmitt, 1927-1933 (Routledge, 2026).

Photo: Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Defending Democracy: Kelsen vs. Schmitt

August 28, 2026

In his analysis of Carl Schmitt’s attack on democracy, Christopher Adair-Toteff argues for the contemporary relevance of Hans Kelsen’s robust defense of liberal... Read more.