Leon Petrazycki's Theory of Law

Leon Petrażycki (1867-1931) was active not only as a legal theorist but also as a scholar of Roman law (e.g., Petrażycki 1892, 2002), as a forerunner of economic analysis of law (e.g., Petrażycki 1895, 2002), as a political and theoretical supporter of women’s rights (e.g., Petrażycki 1915, 2010d), as a philosopher of science (e.g., Petrażycki 1908), as a philosopher of logic (e.g., Petrażycki 1939), as a psychologist (e.g., Petrażycki 1908), as an economist (e.g., Petrażycki 1911), and as a general sociologist (see Lande 1935, 42-3; 1959b, 1975).