ABSTRACT
Hans Kochler has devoted a relevant part of his early scholarship to Kelsen's thinking. They also share a pronounced theoretical interest in understanding the functioning of international law as well as an intense passion for contributing to a peaceful world order with a working international legal system as the pre-eminent remedy to this effect. Kelsen devotes the two main parts, such as: "peace guaranteed by compulsory abjudication of international disputes", "peace guaranteed by individual responsibility for violations of international law". He wrote peace through law under the immediate impression of the ongoing battles and cruelties of World War II. He considers the international legal order as he knows it a "primitive" one because it does not provide for a monopoly of force centralized on the community level like in the case of Nation-States. In Kelsen's view, the single most important measure to be taken in a renewed Peace League is the introduction of the principle of compulsory jurisdiction.
