Gnaeus Flavius (Hermann Kantorowicz) · 1906
The Battle for Legal Science
- Original title
- Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft
- Language
- German
- Form
- Essay
- Text
- Full text
- English
- No English translation · No public-domain English translation found.
- Source text
- sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de
- Selected
- Ben Breen, 2026-09-29; suggested by Claude research agents, 29 Sep 2026
- Status
- Arguments unverified; quotations chosen by machine, unchecked
Q11JUDGMENT
Should a judge follow a general rule when it produces an unjust result in a particular case?No. judges should decide freely. Manifesto of the Free Law movement, arguing that judges already decide with more freedom than the statute allows and should do so openly.
Heidelberg: Winter 1906, pseudonym Gnaeus Flavius; UB Frankfurt digital collection record and German Law Journal article in search results.