CULTURLEG CLASSICS
Rereading... is a section of Eunomía. Journal on the Culture of Legality that aims to facilitate access to classical or foundational texts in the journal's areas of interest. These works may have been previously overlooked due to editorial, linguistic, or contextual reasons. Each text is accompanied by an introductory study that enhances understanding and highlights its contemporary relevance.
Below you can find a compilation of the works published in Eunomía as part of this section:
León Petrażycki
Commentary on León Petrażycki: The Voice of Conscience. An Essay on His Life
Eunomía No. 28 (May 2025 – October 2025) . Translated by Daniela Arias Barragán and introductory study by Benito Grisanti (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain).
“The Nature of Law and Morality"
"Commentary on León Petrażycki: The Voice of Conscience. An Essay on His Life"
Catharine Macaulay Graham
Observations on the Reflections of Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France
Eunomía No. 27 (November 2024 – April 2024). Translated and with an introductory study by Ricardo Hurtado Simó (University of Seville).
From the original *Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Stanhope*.
"Catharine Macaulay Graham. Observations on the Reflections of Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France"
Criminal Code of the People's Republic of China
General Part
Eunomía No. 26 (April 2024 – September 2024). Translated and with an introductory study by Lin Cheung Wan (Carlos III University of Madrid).
From the original text: 中华人民共和国刑法.
"Historical Foundations, Cultural Influences, and Hermeneutic Assumptions for a Spanish Translation of the Chinese Criminal Code"
Jorge A. Bacqué
A Flattened Pyramid
Eunomía No. 25 (October 2023 – March 2024) . Translated and with an introductory study by Piero Mattei-Gentili (Institute of Legal Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico).
The original article in French: Bacqué, J. (1964). *Une Pyramide Aplatie*. ARSP: *Archive für Rechts und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy*, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 105–111.
"The custom of building pyramids only to tear them down. Rereading Jorge Bacqué with regard to Hans Kelsen."
Darcy Ribeiro
The Abominable New Man
Eunomía No. 24 (April 2023 – September 2023). Translated and with an introductory study by Fabricio Pereira da Silva (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro).
Excerpted from Ribeiro, D. (2013), Ensaios Insólitos, Fundação Darcy Ribeiro, pp. 21–37. The original text was written around 1972.
"To (Re)read Darcy Ribeiro on His Centennial"
Aristovoulos Manessis
Guarantees for the Observance of the Constitution (excerpts)
Eunomía No. 23 (October 2022 – March 2022). Translated and with an introductory study by Triantafyllos Gkouvas (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain).
Αι εγγυήσεις τηρήσεως του Συντάγματος, Thessaloniki, To Nomikon Publications – Elias Sakkoulas, 1956.
"The Legal Safeguardism of Aristovoulos Manessis as Positivist Constitutionalism. Biographical and Theoretical Elements of His Academic Trajectory"
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Annihilation of Caste
Eunomía No. 22 (April 2022 – September 2022). Translated and with an introductory study by Mario López Areu (Pontifical Comillas University, Spain).
Excerpts from Ambedkar, B. R. (1979). Annihilation of Caste. In V. Moon (Ed.), Babasaheb Ambedkar: Writings and Speeches, Vol. 1 (pp. 23–99). Dr. Ambedkar Foundation, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
"An Indian Contribution to Democratic Theory. Social Reform, Constitutionalism, and Equality. Rereading B. R. Ambedkar"
Judith Shklar
American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion
Eunomía No. 21 (October 2021 – March 2022). Translated and with an introductory study by Paloma de la Nuez Sánchez-Cascado (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain).
"American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion." The text is from the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, delivered at the University of Utah on May 1 and 2, 1989. A corrected and slightly expanded version of this lecture was published by Harvard University Press.
"American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion. Rereading Judith Shklar"
Riccardo Guastini
Communism and the State: An Invitation to Discuss Outside Orthodoxy
Eunomía No. 20 (April 2021 – September 2021). Translated and with an introductory study by Hernán G. Bouvier (CONICET-UNC, Argentina).
Originally published as "Comunismo e stato. Un invito a discutere fuori dell' ortodossia" in Problemi del socialismo, No. 9, Year XIX, 1978, pp. 79-97.
Introductory study: Popular law versus jurists' law. The German debate between the Romanist and Germanist schools. Communism and democracy. Rereading Riccardo Guastini.
Piero Calamandrei
Justice and Liberty in the Constitution
Eunomía No. 19 (October 2020 – March 2020). Translated and with an introductory study by Agustín José Menéndez.
Anthology including:
- "Costituente e questione sociale" (1945)
- "Lapide ad ignominia" (1955)
- "Discorso agli studenti milanesi" (1955)
- "Questa nostra Repubblica" (1956)
Introductory study: Rereading Piero Calamandrei and his defense of the Democratic and Social State of Law.
Georg Friedrich Puchta
Critique of Popular Law and Jurists' Law (1844)
Eunomía No. 18 (April 2020 – September 2020). Translated and with an introductory study by Joaquín Garrido Martín.
Kritik von Georg Beseler´s Volksrecht und Juristenrecht, originally published in the Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Kritik, I, 1844, pp. 1–40.
Introductory study: Popular Law versus Jurists' Law. The German dispute between the Romanist and Germanist schools.
Max Weber
Prestige of Power and National Sentiment
Eunomía No. 17 (October 2019 – March 2020). Translated and with an introductory study by Joaquín Abellán García.
The original text is published in Weber, M. (2001). Machtprestige und Nationalprestige. In Max Weber Gesamtausgabe Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Die Wirtschaft und die gesellschaftlichen Ordnungen und Mächte. Nahlass. Teilband I: Gemeinschaften. Edition by Wolfgang J. Mommsen. Tübingen: Mohr, pp. 222-247; the selected pages here are pp. 240-247.
Introductory study: Commentary on Max Weber: “Prestige of Power and National Sentiment”.
Hermann Isay
The Method of Interest Jurisprudence. A Critical Reflection (1933)
Philipp Heck
The Denial of Interest Jurisprudence by Hermann Isay. A Reply (1933)
Eunomía Nº 16 (April 2019 – September 2019). Translation and introductory study by María José García Salgado.
Both works were originally published in Archiv für die civilistische Praxis, 137, N.F. 17 (1933), pp. 36-47 ("Die Methode der Interessenjurisprudenz. Eine kritische Betrachtung" the text by Isay) and 47-65 ("Die Leugnung der Interessenjurisprudenz. Eine Erwiederung" the text by Heck). They were later included in Ellscheid and Hassemer (1974: 222-234 and 235-253), from which the translations were made.
Introductory Study: Weighing Interests as a Method.
D’Holbach
Discourse IV: On Subordinates. §§1-20 (1773)
Eunomía Nº 15 (October 2018 – March 2019). Translation and introductory study by Francisco Javier Peña Echeverría.
For this translation, the edition from the “Corpus des oeuvres de Philosophie en langue française,” by the Fayard publishing house (1998), was used, following the original from London (1773).
Introductory Study: The "Natural Politics" of D’Holbach: Reform, Utility, and Inequality.
German Penal Code (Das deutsches Strafgesetzbuch)
Articles 1 to 12
Eunomía Nº 14 (April 2018 – September 2018). Translation and introductory study by Miguel Ángel Cobos Gómez de Linares.
Version from November 13, 1998 [BIGBI IS. 3322] last modified by Article 1 of the Law of May 23, 2017 [BIGBI IS. 1226].
Madame Helvétius
Letter from Madame Helvétius to Abbot Morellet (1790)
Eunomía Nº 13 (October 2017 – March 2018). Translation and introductory study by Ricardo Hurtado Simó.
Carl Schmitt
State, Movement, People. The Triple Articulation of Political Unity (1933)
Eunomía Nº 12 (April 2017 – September 2017). Translation by Joseba Miren García Celada and Miguel Ángel Cobos Gómez de Linares.
Original text by Carl Schmitt, Staat, Bewegung, Volk. Die Dreigliederung der politischen Einheit, Hamburg: Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, 1933.
Introductory study: Carl Schmitt. State and Social Complexity, by Enrique Serrano Gómez.
on H. Saint-Simon
Exposition of Saint-Simon's Doctrine on the Necessity of a New Social Doctrine. First Session (1830)
Eunomía Nº 11 (October 2016 – March 2017). Translation and introductory study by Francisco Martínez Mesa.
The presented text collects the “Première Seance” from the Doctrine de Saint-Simon. Exposition. Première Année 1828-1829, Bureau de L’Organisateur, Paris, third edition, August 1831.
Introductory Study: The dilemmas of reason and progress in a field of ruins; the exposition of the sansimonian doctrine.
Jerome Frank
Facts Are Guesses (1949)
Eunomía Nº 10 (April 2016 – September 2016). Translation and introductory study by Sebastián Reyes Molina.
Original title: “Facts are Guesses”. Original text in: Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice (1949), 3rd reimpression 1973, Princeton University Press, New Jersey, pp. 14-36.
Introductory Study: Jerome Frank: American Legal Realism and Facts in Law.
Theodore Roosevelt
Excerpt from the Annual Message of the President to the Congress of the United States of America (1904)
Excerpt from the State of the Union Address (1905)
Eunomía Nº 9 (October 2015 – March 2016). Translation and introductory study by Javier Redondo.
The original texts can be consulted in the Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt. Available at: http://www.theodoreroosevelt.com. Last reviewed on July 22, 2015.
Introductory Study: Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine: The United States, International Gendarme.
A. R. J. Turgot
Letter to Dr. Richard Price on American Constitutions (1778)
Eunomía Nº 8 (March 2015 – August 2015). Translation and introductory study by Paloma de la Nuez.
The original text in French can be consulted in Turgot, “Lettre au Docteur Price sur les constitutions américaines”. In: SCHELLE, G. (ed.), Oeuvres de Turgot et documents le concernant, (Vol. III), Verlag Detlev Auvermann KG, Glashütten in Taunus, pp. 532-540.
Introductory Study: Turgot on America: Between Skepticism and Hope.
John Stuart Mill
The Negro Question (1850)
Eunomía Nº 7 (September 2014 – February 2015). Translation and introductory study by **Ricardo Cueva Fernández**.
The original English version was published in *Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country*, Vol. XLI, pp. 25 – 31.
Introductory study: *Stuart Mill and his reply to Thomas Carlyle on racial inferiority*.
Hannah Arendt
The Great Tradition (1953)
Eunomía Nº 6 (March-August 2014). Translation and introductory study by **Alfonso Ballesteros**.
The original English version of this lecture was published in two parts: "The Great Tradition I. Law and Power", *Social Research*, New York, No. 3, pp. 713-726 and "The Great Tradition II. Ruling and Being Ruled", *Social Research*, New York, No. 4, pp. 941-954.
Introductory study: *The tension between action and law in Hannah Arendt*.
Karl Olivecrona
Realism and Idealism: Some Reflections on the Capital Question of the Philosophy of Law (1951)
Eunomía Nº 5 (September 2013 – February 2014). Translation and introductory study by **Óscar Vergara**.
Originally published in *New York University Law Review 26* (1951), pp. 120-131.
Introductory study: *Legal positivism and realism in Karl Olivecrona*.
Rudolf von Jhering
Our Task (1857)
Eunomía Nº 4 (March-August 2013). Translation and introductory study by **Luis Lloredo Alix**.
Jhering wrote "Our Task" ("Unsere Aufgabe") as a preface to the first issue of the journal he started in 1857 along with his friend Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Gerber: *Annals for the dogmatics of current Roman and Germanic law*.
Introductory study: *On jurisprudence of concepts: emergence, rise, and decline*.
John Trenchard
Where It Is Proven That Liberty Is the Inalienable Right of All Mankind (1721)
Thomas Gordon
All Governments Have Been Instituted by Men, and Only for Their Welfare (1721)
Eunomía Nº 3 (September 2012 – February 2013). Translation and introductory study by **Ricardo Cueva Fernández**.
Introductory study: *Two articles by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon on the foundations and constitutional limits of power*.
Karl N. Llewellyn
Some Realism About Realism - Responding to Roscoe Pound (1931)
Eunomía Nº 2 (March-August 2012). Translation and introductory study by Juan Ignacio Solar Cayón.
Originally published as “Some Realism About Realism-Responding to Dean Pound”, Harvard Law Review, vol. XLIV, No. 8, pp. 1222-1264.
Introductory study: The origins of American legal realism.
Hans Kelsen
Preface. On interpretation (1949)
Eunomía Nº 1 (September 2011 – February 2012). Translation and introductory study by Álvaro Núñez Vaquero.
The text presented here for the first time in Spanish translation is the preface to Hans Kelsen's book The Law of the United Nations (2000).
