Leon Petrażycki
- Jurist
- Leon Petrażycki
- School
- Sociological
- Father of
- Sociology of Law, Psychological Jurisprudence
- Theory
- **Psychological Theory of Law**: Law consists of imperative-attributive ethical emotions, distinguishing it from morality which consists of purely imperative emotions. He also distinguished between **intuitive law** and **positive law**.
- Quote
Law is a psychic phenomenon consisting of imperative-attributive experiences.
- Books
Theory of Law and State, Law and Morality
- Propounded
Law as imperative-attributive emotion, distinction between intuitive and positive law
- Born
- 1867
- Died
- 1931
- Portrait
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