Alf Ross
Alf Niels Christian Ross ( June 10, 1899 *, † August 17, 1979 ) was a Danish legal philosopher and jurist. Notably, he was known as a representative of Scandinavian legal realism, and is next to Axel Hägerström and Karl Olivecrona as the most important representative of this rather theoretical direction.
Life
Alf Ross made his Abitur in 1917. He then studied law and graduated in 1922. He worked for a lawyer and began in 1923 a study trip, which lasted two and a half years and led him to France, England and Austria. The years 1928 and 1929 he spent in Uppsala, where in 1929 he received a degree in philosophy. In 1935, he got a job at the University of Copenhagen, where he taught constitutional law. 1953 of his book Om Ret og Retfærdighed was published, which he published in 1959 in English under the title On Law and Justice. From 1959 to 1972 he was a Representative of Denmark to the European Court of Human Rights.
Work
Alf Ross represented in this work, the view that there was no possibility of epistemological reasons, to the right a priori grant special content standards. The experience was the scale here. This means, for example, that the well-known expression ' suum cuique tribuere ', ' To each his own assign ', so long has no meaning until it becomes clear what actually belongs to each; but that would point to a circular argument (On Law and Justice, § 64 ( p. 276) ). His determination to rely on nothing but the facts leads him to say that the law is neither true nor false and should be seen more as a directive (On Law and Justice, § 2 ( p. 2) ). The standard is not aimed at citizens but to the judge (On Law and Justice, § 7 ( p. 33) ).
He opposed the concept of a natural law. It is, in his opinion, is not clear what you have to be understood; Moreover, professions are always only on a personal insight, where there is no way to specify what should be the right of the many possible insights. It was delivered in this way to unlimited invention and dogmatics (On Law and Justice, § 58 ( p. 261) ).