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4 Liverpool L. Rev. 5 (1982)

handle is hein.journals/lvplr4 and id is 1 raw text is: Phenomenology and Jurisprudence PHENOMENOLOGY AND JURISPRUDENCE* David Schiff** Introduction Roscoe Pound considered that juristic phenomenology is a variant of American legal realism, and one of a limited kind.' This approach and conclusion are typical of the few Anglo-American jurisprudential writers who even consider that there is such a potential classification as juristic phenomenology.' It is, however, a view quite unrepresentative of the ideas of juristic phenomenology, their discussion, criticism and development in continental jurisprudential literature.3 For example, H. J. van Eikema Hommes4 includes a section on Phenomenological Legal Theories, in which short accounts of the juristic phenomenology of Adolf Reinach, Fritz Schreier, Felix Kaufman and Paul Amselek are given. Probably the most developed analyses in English of juristic phenomenology can be found in articles by Amselek, Friedmann, and Franklin in Phenomenology and the Social Sciences.' There has been a widespread influence of phenomenology on jurisprudence in Germany, France and Latin-America within the present century. The German developments are either representative of the direct influence of Edrmund Husserl's pure phenomenology,' or have been attempts to reinterpret Kelsenian jurisprudence in terms of phenomenological insight or method.' Juristic phenomenology in France is of recent significance representing the same influences as in Germany' but in addition, specific attempts to reconcile or * This article was originally presented as a paper at a conference in April 1981 on Critical Legal Studies, organised by the Law Faculty of the University of Kent. ** Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics. 1 Jurisprudence, Minnesota, West Publishing Co., 1959, Vol. 1, 282-283. 2 With the main exception of W. Friedmann, Legal Theory, London, Stevens, 1967. 3 This position within jurisprudence can be seen in the more general context of different philosophic traditions: see H. Spiegelberg, The Phenomenological Movement: A Historical Introduction, The Hague, Nijhoff, 1960, vol. II, ch.XIII, esp. 647-650. 4 Modern Trends in the History of Legal Philosophy, Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Co., 1979, 260-265. 5 See Phenomenology and Legal Theory in Phenomenology and the Social Sciences (ed. M. Natanson), Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1973, vol. 2, part VIll. 6 Adolf Reinach, Zur Phanomenologie des Rechts, Munchen, Kisel-Verlag, 1953, originally published as Die apriorischen Grundlagen des bargerlichen Rechts, 1913; Gerhart Husserl, Recht und Welt: Rechtsphilosophische Abhandlungen, Frankfurt, V. Klostermann, 1964, and see Phanomenologie, Rechtsphilosophie, Jurisprudenz: Festchrift far Gerhart Husserl, Frankfurt, V. Klostermann, 1969. 7 Particularly Felix Kaufmann, Die Kriterion des Rechts, Tobingen, Mohr, 1925; Fritz Schreier, Grundbegriffe und Grundformen des Rechts, Leipzig, F. Deuticke, 1924; See A. S. de Bustamante y Montoro, Kelsenism, in Interpretations of Modern Legal Philosophies Essays in honour of Roscoe Pound (ed. P. Sayre), New York, Oxford University Press, 1947, 43-51. 8 Especially Paul Amselek, Methode Phdnomenologique et Theorie du Droit, Paris, L.G.D.J., 1964; Jean-Louis Gardies, La philosophie du droit d'Adolf Reinach, X Archives'de philosophie du droit (1965), 17; Georges Kalinowski, La logique des normes d'Edmund Husserl, X Archives de philosophie du.droit (1965), 107; Simone Goyard, Essai de Critique Phenomenologique de Droit (Thesis, Paris, 1971); and, of course, within the sociology of law, G. D. Gurvitch, Sociology of Law, London, Routledge, 1947. 5

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