1st Edition

Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law

By Eugene Ehrlich, Klaus A. Ziegert Copyright 2001
    608 Pages
    by Routledge

    608 Pages
    by Routledge

    The innovative and revolutionary scholarship of the eminent Austrian legal theorist and professor of Roman law, Eugen Ehrlich (1862-1922), is of a very high caliber. His work has not only held its place well in view of what legal theory, especially sociological legal theory, has to offer, but is also still a powerful challenge to positions in legal theory that are no longer defensible. The sociology of law has followed in a direct line of succession from Ehrlich's observations and ideas as a new and special discipline linking jurisprudence with sociology.

    INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE, FOREWORD, INTRODUCTION, I. THE PRACTICAL CONCEPT OF LAW, II. THE INNER ORDER OF THE SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS, III. THE SOCIAL ASSOCIATIONS AND THE SOCIAL NORMS, IV. SOCIAL AND STATE SANCTION OF THE NORMS, V. THE FACTS OF THE LAW, VI. THE NORMS FOR DECISION, VII. THE STATE AND THE LAW, VIII. THE CREATION OF THE LEGAL PROPOSITION, IX. THE STRUCTURE OF THE LEGAL PROPOSITION, X. THE VARYING CONTENT OF THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE, XI. JURISTIC SCIENCE IN ROME, XII. JURISTIC SCIENCE IN ENGLAND, XIII. THE JURISTIC SCIENCE OF THE OLDER CONTINENTAL COMMON LAW, XIV. THE HISTORICAL TREND IN THE JURISTIC SCIENCE OF THE CONTINENTAL COMMON LAW, XV. THE FUNCTION OF JURISTIC SCIENCE, XVI. THE LAW CREATED BY THE STATE, XVII. CHANGES IN THE LAW IN THE STATE AND IN SOCIETY, XVIII. THE CODIFICATION OF JURISTIC LAW, XIX. THE THEORY OF CUSTOMARY LAW, XX. THE METHODS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW. I. LEGAL HISTORY AND JURISTIC SCIENCE, XXI. THE METHODS OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF LAW. II. THE STUDY OF THE LIVING LAW, INDEX

    Biography

    Ehrlich, Eugene; Ziegert, Klaus A.