The Struggle for Law [1915]

<p><strong></strong>The Pioneer of the Basic Modern Trends in Jurisprudence </p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>First published in 1872 <em>Der Kampf um's Recht</em> discusses what the law is how it changes and how it is used as a way of achieving social change. It attracted wide attention was reissued in several revised editions and translated into a dozen foreign languages. Our reprint presents the standard English edition.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The pioneer of the basic modern trends in jurisprudence was a German Rudolf von Jhering. He might appropriately be called the Mark Twain of German jurisprudence. Gifted with a rare sardonic humor he led the revolt against philosophical abstraction and conceptualism in German jurispridence and the glorification of logic as a juristic method which enabled the jurists to disguise the law as a system of legal mathematics.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>-William Seagle Rudolf von Jhering: Or Law as a Means to an End <em>University of Chicago Law Review</em> Vol. 13 No. 1 (December 1945) 71</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p>lii 138 pp.</p>