General Theory of Law

Korkunov’s General Theory of law contains in truth parts of rare vigor and originality. As to natural law, the origin of law, legal norms, the distinction between public and private law, the theory of the three powers, moral persons, the nature of spciety and of the state, and a good many other questions, there will not simply be found, formulated with great precision and uncommon force of reasoning, the chief theories which are at the bottom of universal legal thought. There will be found too, Russian theories, often very ingenious. Russian thought is not even in the legal domain though profoundly influenced by German science, a mere reflection of it.