Theories

Theories of law and the jurists behind them.

• Distributive and Corrective Justice — Aristotle
• Scientific Positivism — Auguste Comte
• Scandinavian Realism — Axel Hagerstrom
• Feminist Jurisprudence (Dominance Theory) — Catharine MacKinnon
• Natural Law — Cicero
• Fiction Theory of Corporate Personality — Friedrich Carl von Savigny
• Volksgeist Theory — Friedrich Carl von Savigny
• Will Theory of Rights — Friedrich Carl von Savigny
• Realist Theory of Corporate Personality — Gierke
• Pure Theory of Law — Hans Kelsen
• Status to Contract — Henry Maine
• Primary and Secondary Rules — H.L.A. Hart
• Modern Natural Law — Hugo Grotius
• General Will — Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Legal Positivism — Jeremy Bentham
• Utilitarianism Theory — Jeremy Bentham
• Fact Skeptic Realism — Jerome Frank
• Command Theory of Law — John Austin
• Theory of Justice — John Rawls
• Liberal Theory of Law (Harm Principle) — John Stuart Mill
• American Realism — Karl Llewellyn
• Rule Skepticism — Karl Llewellyn
• Socialist Theory of Law — Karl Marx
• Inner Morality of Law — Lon Fuller
• Geographical School of Law — Montesquieu
• Prediction Theory of Law — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• Concession Theory of Corporate Personality — Otto von Gierke
• Entitlement Theory — Robert Nozick
• Critical Legal Studies — Roberto Mangabeira Unger
• Interpretive Jurisprudence — Ronald Dworkin
• Social Engineering — Roscoe Pound
• Natural Law with Variable Content — Rudolf Stammler
• Bracket Theory of Corporate Personality — Rudolf von Jhering
• Social Utilitarianism — Rudolf von Jhering
• Historical School — Savigny
• Classical Natural Law — Thomas Aquinas
• Absolute Sovereignty — Thomas Hobbes
• Social Contract Theory — Thomas Hobbes
• Jural Relations Theory — Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld