Sheds new light on legal theory and philosophy in Russia, in the English language

Identifies and describes Russian legal realism

Brings together a cast of Eastern European renowned authors

Autorentext

Bartosz Broek is full professor at the Department of the Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics and deputy-dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, as well as Deputy-Director of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.

Julia Stanek is a researcher in the area of Russian legal philosophy, bioethics and legal philosophy in general, the author of several publications and book on Russian Legal Realism.

Jerzy Stelmach is full professor and the Head of the Department of the Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, an experienced researcher in the areas of legal philosophy, law & logic, ethics, and philosophy in general; the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and mo nographs.

Inhalt
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 Petraycki's Critical Realism and Legal Realism.- The Logical and Methodological Foundations of the Theory of Law of Leon Petraycki in the Context of the Analytical-Phenomenological Tradition.- Eugen Ehrlich and Leon Petraycki: 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.