englischRechtsgefühle (feelings about law and justice) influence legal processes, politics as well as attitudes towards law, and have centrally impacted legal history. Using Rudolph von Jhering’s The Struggle for Law (1872) as a point of departure, the essays explore ‘legal feelings’ as a sensus [...]

englischRudolf von Jhering lectured at Ludoviciana, the state university in Giessen, for sixteen years from 1852 to 1868, during which time he enjoyed an upper-middle-class lifestyle and a productive spell of teaching, research and writing. It was not an isolated road to Damascus occurrence that led [...]

englischAccording to Rudolph von Jhering, for a legal thinker refraining from talking with legal practitioners means cutting oneself off from the best source of knowledge and further education. Taking this as a starting point, the volume contains the methodological reflections of judges, barristers [...]