Full Description
This edited volume explores ideas of legal realism which emerge through the works of Russian legal philosophers. Apart from the well-known American and Scandinavian versions of legal realism, there also exists a Russian one: readers will discover fresh perspectives and that the collection of early twentieth century ideas on law discussed in Russia can be understood as a unified school of legal thought - as Russian legal realism.
These chapters by renowned European and Eastern European legal philosophers add to ongoing discussions about the nature of law, especially in the context of developments around our scientific knowledge about the mind and behaviour. Analyses of legal phenomena carried out by legal realists in Russia offer novel arguments in favour of embracing psychological and sociological perspectives on the law. The book includes analysis of the St. Petersburg school of legal philosophy and Leon Petrażycki's psychological theory of law.
This original and multifaceted research on Russian realists is of considerable value to an international audience. Researchers and postgraduate students of law, legal theory and legal ethics will find the book particularly appealing, but it will also interest those investigating the philosophy or sociology of law, or legal history.
Contents
The St. Petersburg School of Legal Philosophy and Russian Legal Thought.- Law and Social Constructivism: The Russian School of the Legal Realism Reexamined.- The Theory of State and Law by Nikolay Korkunov.- Sergey Muromtsev: The Founder of Russian Sociological Jurisprudence.- On Leon Petrażycki's Critical Realism and Legal Realism.- The Logical and Methodological Foundations of the Theory of Law of Leon Petrażycki in the Context of the Analytical-Phenomenological Tradition.- Eugen Ehrlich and Leon Petrażycki: Are Emotions a Viable Criterion to Distinguish Between Law and Morality?.- Russian Naturalistic and Phenomenological Theory of Law and Contemporary Analytical Philosophy of Mind.- The Unrecognized Father of Freudo-Marxism: Mikhail Reisner's Socio-Psychological Theory of State and Law.- Between Psychology and Sociology: The Continuators of Psychological Legal Theory.
