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Leon Petrażycki

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Petrażycki conceives of law as an empirical, psychological phenomenon that can best be studied by introspection. According to him, law takes the form of legal experiences (emotions, impulsions) implying a two-sided relationship between a right on the one hand and a duty on the other hand. If this
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A prolific writer in several languages and famous lecturer with a large following of students, Petrażycki committed suicide in 1931. However, Petrażycki's contribution to legal sociology and legal theory continues to be debated within various fields of legal research and applied to the study of
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of his time, which he takes to task for being naive and lacking a truly scientific basis because of its focus on norms, rather than the experience of those norms. He also rejects the rather common notion that only human beings can have rights and can therefore be seen as an early proponent of
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Banakar, Reza, Who Needs the Classics? - On the Relevance of Classical Legal Sociology for the Study of Current Social and Legal Problems (September 3, 2012). RETSSOCIOLOGI, Ole Hammerslev, Mikael Rask Madsen, eds., Copenhagen: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2012. Available at SSRN:
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idea of living law when he states that "the true practice of civil law or any law is not to be found in the courts, but altogether elsewhere. Its practitioners are not judges and advocates, but each individual citizen..." (Petrażycki 1897, as quoted by Motyka)
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Leon Petrażycki, Law and Morality. Edited with an introduction by N.S. Timasheff. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1955. Reprinted with a new introduction by A. Javier Trevino. New Brunswick: NJ: Transaction Publishers,
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legal experience refers to normative facts in a broad sense (statutes, court decisions, but also contracts, customs, commands of any sort) he calls it "positive law"; if it lacks such reference, he talks of "intuitive law".
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Petrażycki published many books in Russian, German, and Polish early in life. Unfortunately, many of his late ideas were preserved only in lecture notes taken by his students. Even in Poland, his work is only partly known.
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Adam Podgórecki, Unrecognized Father of Sociology of Law: Leon Petrażycki. Reflections based on Jan Gorecki's "Sociology and Jurisprudence of Leon Petrażycki". In: Law & Society Review, vol. 15 (1980/81),
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Edoardo Fittipaldi, Bonae fidei possessor fructus consumptos suos facit. Tentative Answers to One Question Left Open by Petrażycki's Economic Analysis of Law. Societas/Communitas, 7, 2009, 1, pp. 15–36
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Krzysztof Motyka, Law and Sociology: The Petrażyckian Perspective. In: Michael Freeman (ed.) Law and Sociology. Current Legal Issues 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006, pp. 119–140.
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On the relevance of Petrażycki's work for legal sociology see Cotterrell, Roger, "Leon Petrazycki and Contemporary Socio-Legal Studies" 2015; Banakar, Reza, "Who Needs the Classics?" 2012.
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In another conceptualization, he contrasts "official law" (made by the state and its agents) to "unofficial law" (made by societal agents), which brings him close to
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Edoardo Fittipaldi, Everyday Legal Ontology: A Linguistic and Psychological Investigation within the Framework of Leon Petrażycki's Theory of Law. Milan: LED 2012.
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Roger Cotterrell, Leon Petrazycki and Contemporary Socio-Legal Studies (2015) 11 International Journal of Law in Context 1-16. Available at SSRN:
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Andrzej Kojder, Leon Petrażycki's Socio-legal Ideas and their Contemporary Continuation, 6 Journal of Classical Sociology 2006, pp. 333–358
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Sorokin, Pitirim. 1963. A Long Journey: The Autobiography of Pitirim A. Sorokin. New Haven, Conn., College and University Press.
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English speakers still largely rely on a compilation of Petrażycki's writings edited by the Russian-American sociologist
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1980/81). His influence on the sociology of law has been primarily indirect through some of his students, specifically
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in 1955. Despite some recent efforts to introduce and revive his work, it is still largely unknown in the West.
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Jan Gorecki (ed.) Sociology and Jurisprudence of Leon Petrażycki. Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1975.
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Edoardo Fittipaldi, Psicologia giuridica e realismo: Leon Petrażycki. Milan: LED 2012.
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http://www.lededizioni.com/lededizioniallegati/600-Fittipaldi-Everyday-Ontology.pdf
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Leon Petrażycki was born into the Polish gentry of the Mogilev Governorate in the
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Petrażycki has been called the "unrecognized father of the sociology of law" (
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Petrażycki's theory of law is anti-statist and very critical of the
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Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 2nd class
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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-007-1479-3_46
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https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2609155
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Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
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Leon Petrazycki

Sennensky Uyezd
Mogilev Governorate
Russian Empire
Warsaw
Powązki Cemetery
Philosophy of law
Sociology of law
Psychological theory of law
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Polish
Russian
romanized
philosopher
legal scholar
sociologist
sociology of law
Russian Empire
Kiev University
Berlin
University of St. Petersburg
philosophy of law
First Duma
Constitutional Democratic Party
Bolshevik
Poland
sociology
Warsaw University
Nicholas S. Timasheff

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