Introduction

natural law theories in the 20th century

Francesco Viola

pp. 1065-1153

in: Enrico Pattaro, Corrado Roversi (eds), A treatise of legal philosophy and general jurisprudence 12, Berlin, Springer, 2016

Abstract

If Karl Magnus Bergbohm (1849–1927) had lived later in the 20th century, he would have had an opportunity to use his bloodhound's sense of smell with much greater satisfaction in sniffing out the hidden presence of natural law in the legal doctrines of the time (see Bergbohm 1973).