In recent years, Kant scholarship and Kantian political thought have sharpened parallel research questions on several levels of normative political theory: first, on the level of the status of political norms, second, on the level of the structure and content of constitutional and international law, third, on the level of concrete questions of normative ethics and public policy. On the first level, the nature of political norms and their differentiation from ethical and legal norms has been explored, with far-reaching implications for political authority and political legitimacy. On the second level, the international debate on global government and governance has for two decades now been fuelled by ostensibly Kantian intuitions. More recently, however, positions in liberal international law have been criticised from the perspective of new interpretations of Kant's texts. At the same time, critics have claimed to find imperial tendencies within Kant's work. Finally, concrete policy issues have played an increasing role in Kant scholarship and in Kantian attempts to challenge a general utilitarian predominance in public policy. Authors have addressed themes such as biopolitics, freedom of expression, intellectual property or migration. In this section, we intend to bring together Kant scholars with contemporary systematic political theorists working on all three levels.
