The Analytical School

“To the analytical jurist, a law that commands what is ethically wrong or forbids what is ethically right is no less a law if it proceeds from the political sovereign… To the analytical jurist, customary law, including judicial custom, is an anomaly that should be abolished by covering the whole field of social relations with written codes.”(1)

Other Schools of Jurisprudence

In the last decades, others principal schools of jurisprudence are:

• the natural-law school,
• the historical school,
• the comparative school, and
• the sociological school.

Resources

Notes

1. “Jurisprudence,”Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000. Contributed By William O. Douglas, M.A., LL.B., LL.D. Late Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

See Also

Legal Positivism
Hans Kelsen
Natural Law
Schools of legal theories
Civil Law
Human Rights