Alf Ross – författare

Varför demokrati? är en skandinavisk klassiker som kom ut i Danmark första gången 1946 och var juristprofessorn och rättsfilosofen Alf Ross funderingar på nazisternas ockupation av Danmark under andra världskriget. Den kom ut i Sverige första gången 1948 och i en andra upplaga 1968. Den här upplagan har språkligt reviderats för att bättre passa läsaren i vår tid. Eftersom vår grundlag förnyades 1974 har vi sett det som nödvändigt att få med ett nyskrivet kapitel om den konstitutionella och demokratisk utvecklingen i Sverige de senaste 30 åren. Efterskriften som beskriver detta är skrivet av Uppsaladocenten Karl-Göran Algotsson. Boken är dock märkvärdigt aktuell då den demokrati som vi alla tar för given ständigt ifrågasätts från olika håll. Demokrati i likhet med tolerans är endast en tunn fernissa som ständigt måste styrkas på den ruvande diktaturen och intoleransen. Översättning gjordes första gången av Allan Degerman. Den här moderniserade översättningen bygger på Degermans och är gjord av Manne Svensson.

Alf Ross (1899-1979) was, in H.L.A. Hart''s words, ''the most acute and best-equipped philosopher'' of Scandinavian legal realism. On Law and Justice provides a comprehensive outline of his legal realist position, offering a consistently empirical research programme that simultaneously recognizes the distinctly normative character of law. Ross''s legal realism avoids the standard critiques against behaviourist reductionism while still remaining categoricallydistinct from legal positivism and natural law.This new edition features an introduction by Jakob v. H. Holtermann, clarifying Ross''s general philosophical project and detailing the sophisticated dual distinction between internal and external aspects of law that provides a counterpoint to Hart''s celebrated analysis. This new translation will allow readers to appreciate Ross''s insights into the ongoing empirical turn in legal scholarship and related attempts to associate legal realism with broader philosophical trends.

Alf Ross (1899-1979) was, in H.L.A. Hart''s words, ''the most acute and best-equipped philosopher'' of Scandinavian legal realism. On Law and Justice provides a comprehensive outline of his legal realist position, offering a consistently empirical research programme that simultaneously recognizes the distinctly normative character of law. Ross''s legal realism avoids the standard critiques against behaviourist reductionism while still remaining categoricallydistinct from legal positivism and natural law.This new edition features an introduction by Jakob v. H. Holtermann, clarifying Ross''s general philosophical project and detailing the sophisticated dual distinction between internal and external aspects of law that provides a counterpoint to Hart''s celebrated analysis. This new translation will allow readers to appreciate Ross''s insights into the ongoing empirical turn in legal scholarship and related attempts to associate legal realism with broader philosophical trends.

On Law and Justice by Alf Ross (1899-1979) is a classic work of twentieth-century legal philosophy. The first translation into English was notably poor and abridged, and it misrepresented Ross's views. Translated from scratch and in full length from the original Danish, this new critical edition casts light on Ross's work and resituates it firmly in the context of current debates in the field. Ross was, in H.L.A. Hart's words, 'the most acute and best-equipped philosopher' of Scandinavian legal realism. On Law and Justice provides a comprehensive outline of his legal realist position, offering a consistently empirical research programme that simultaneously recognizes the distinctly normative character of law. Ross's legal realism avoids the standard critiques against behaviourist reductionism while still remaining categorically distinct from legal positivism and natural law. This new edition features an introduction by Jakob v. H. Holtermann, clarifying Ross's general philosophical project and detailing the sophisticated dual distinction between internal and external aspects of law that provides a counterpoint to Hart's celebrated analysis. This new translation will allow readers to appreciate Ross's insights into the ongoing empirical turn in legal scholarship and related attempts to associate legal realism with broader philosophical trends.