Alf Ross : a life /
This is the story of Alf Ross, one of the founding fathers of the so-called Scandinavian legal realism. On the surface, the life of Alf Ross was a fairy tale; at least he had to go through an awful lot of hardship both in relation to love and work before he became an internationally known and recogn...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Copenhagen, Denmark :
DJØF Publishing,
2014.
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Edición: | First edition. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Alf Ross
- A life; Foreword; Index; Introduction. A scientific approach to life; 'Do I dare?'; The sources; About this book; CHAPTER 1. The sun rises; The family and the inheritance; Childhood and school; The study of law; His circle of friends and his 'spiritual crisis'; A 'spiritual crisis'; The smile; The trip with Stephan Hurwitz; Berlin; Duzio; 'Ich bin Däne'; Doubt and marriage; The ball at Inga's; The cancelled wedding; Hotel de Mondres, Paris; Illness; Waiting period; Wedding; CHAPTER 2. Paris, Vienna, London and Berlin; Paris; Cursus honorum; Rue Linné; Vienna; Landfall.
- The letter to Frederik Vinding KruseAn available standpoint; Hans Kelsen; The Vienna School and the Circle of Vienna; Contract with the devil; We hammer the keys; The Officers House; CHAPTER 3. The humiliation; The thesis is rejected; The condemned thesis; The evaluation; Behind the evaluation; Years of struggle; The nervous breakdown; The turning-point; Salvation; CHAPTER 4. Struggle, victory and shame; Swedish doctor; The doctoral defence in Uppsala; Assistant at the Faculty of Maw and Political Science; Jurist or philosopher?; 'The final battle with Vinding Kruse'
- The accusations of plagiarismThe law thesis; Gunnar Myrdal; The accusations against Frederik Vinding Kruse; 'A Dane returned from Åre'; The doctoral thesis is accepted for defence; Kelsen, Hägerström and Vinding Kruse; Bent Schultzer; Victory and defeat; Docent and falling in Move; Professor of International Law; CHAPTER 5. The German refugee; The flight from Germany; The Kolbenhoff period; Walter Kolbenhoff; Walter Kolbenhoff and the reconstruction of Germany; Alf Ross and Walter Kolbenhoff; Else-Merete Ross' travels around Germany; The literary witness.
- CHAPTER 6. War, Socialism and DemocracyThe war; The Occupation; Textbook in international law; 'Vinding Kruse's contribution to the study of legal sources'; Frederik Vinding Kruse and the war; 'Vinding Kruse and Nazism'; International law and post-war trials; Denmark as an allied combatant in the war?; Megal science contacts are resumed; The journal case; Social Democrat; ""Why I vote for the Social Democrat party""; Why democracy?; CHAPTER 7. Contact with Norway and the journey to America; Oslo; The philosophy of law in Norway.
- 'Oslo is a strange mixture of provincial town and Americanisation'A ski trip to Fagernes; 'My joy and greatness of redemption'; Wanderlust; The journey to America; Paris and the plan of the great journey; The purpose of the voyage to America; Currency problems; Departure; The round trip; The journey home; 'The sporting modern professor'; Else-Merete returns home; CHAPTER 8. A modern philosophy of law informed by scientific method; It's about morals; 'Thus passes the vanity of the world'; An old-fashioned jurisprudence; A modern philosophy of law informed by scientific method.