GERMAN LEGAL SCIENCE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XIX CENTURY: SYSTEM AND JURISPRUDENCE OF CONCEPTS

Abstract

This paper provides some light into the complex study of the history of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law in the german nineteenth century. During this rich period the Science of Law revives: it turns on to the sources to work them in a new and updated way, according to models that endure to this day (Pandectism); Intellectual movements that address the legal phenomenon from new philosophical positions emerge, according to the prevailing needs of the moment (Jurisprudence of Concepts / Jurisprudence of Interests). This change led to an atmosphere of intellectual debate on the legal phenomenon and the concept of Justice that even today, two centuries later, remains in very similar terms. Otherwise, our current law is in difficulty, and the study of its past can bring some light to face its future.