ABSTRACT
Immanuel Kant’s construction of a cosmopolitan constitution is meant to provide principles for the structuring of public reasoning along the task of reflecting upon international justice and approximating peace among nations. The way in which the regulative idea translates into a political duty is in accordance with limited but progressive institutional reforms which maintain an unresolved asymmetry between the universal scope of cosmopolitan law and its contingent transnational institutionalization. Also according to a transitional reading of cosmopolitan law, the inclusion of the Volkerstaat under ideal circumstances means that Kant admits a legitimate institutional progression of the Volkerbund. Kant’s argument proceeds to the deduction of cosmopolitan right on the bases of a geographical consideration.
