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Law, philosophy of
Law has been a significant topic for philosophical discussion since its beginnings. Attempts to discover the principles of cosmic order, and to discover or secure the principles of ...
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Legal reasoning and interpretation
Legal reasoning is the process of devising, reflecting on, or giving reasons for legal acts and decisions or justifications for speculative opinions about the meaning of law and ...
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Frank, Jerome (1889–1957)
Jerome Frank was a significant contributor to the ‘realist’ movement in US legal theory. He is most closely associated with ‘fact scepticism’, the view that legal processes, especially ...
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Hart, Herbert Lionel Adolphus (1907–93)
H.L.A. Hart, Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University, 1952–1968, is an outstanding representative of the analytical approach in jurisprudence and philosophy of law. He restated ‘legal positivism’ in ...
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Hohfeld, Wesley Newcomb (1879–1918)
W.N. Hohfeld, US law professor and proponent of analytical jurisprudence, was responsible for one of the most influential analyses of the concept of a right in legal and ...
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Llewellyn, Karl Nickerson (1893–1962)
Karl Llewellyn was philosophically the most original of the ‘American Realist’ jurists. His line of argument, sometimes misleadingly called ‘rule-scepticism’, casts doubt on received approaches to the formulation ...
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Pothier, Robert Joseph (1699–1772)
Robert Joseph Pothier was one of the most influential of modern civilian jurists. At the end of a long period of rationalistic natural law thought, he produced a ...
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Pound, Roscoe (1870–1964)
Roscoe Pound was a legal thinker who exercised profound influence in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century. The approach he advocated, under the banner ...
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Renner, Karl (1870–1950)
Karl Renner was a leading contributor to democratic-socialist legal theory within the Neo-Kantian ‘Austro-Marxist’ interpretation of socialism that developed in late nineteenth-century Vienna. For Renner and his associates, ...
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Savigny, Friedrich Karl von (1779–1861)
Friedrich Karl von Savigny was a powerfully influential student of Roman law both in its medieval manifestations and in the contemporary ‘Pandektenrecht’ (law based on Justinian’s Pandects, or ...
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Villey, Michel (1914–88)
Michel Villey was France’s leading post-war philosopher of law in the ‘natural law’ mode. He aimed to rediscover a distinctively philosophical approach to law rooted in the history ...
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Weinberger, Ota (1919–2009)
Weinberger is noted as a proponent of ‘institutionalist positivism’ in legal theory. By contrast with earlier forms of so-called ‘institutionalism’ in law, Weinberger advances a theory in which ...