POJETÍ OBECNÝCH PARADIGMAT PRÁVA POHLEDEM EMILA SVOBODY

• Authors: Eliáš Karel

Title variants

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General paradigms of law by Emil Svoboda

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The paper is devoted to work and life of the important Czech expert in civil law Emil Svoboda; 140th anniversary of the birth will commemorate in October 2018. Emil Svoboda among others contributed to the foundation of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he worked as one of the six founding professors in the first half of 1920s. Svoboda started his academic career before World War I at the Czech Technical University in and the Charles University in Prague. He refused traditional dogmatic that dominated legal science in Czech lands by a sociological, psychological and philosophical approach. His lawyer thinking was influenced more by Schopenhauer, Dostoevsky and Masaryk than by professors of law (with the exception of Emanuel Tilsch). Svoboda defended the idea that “a paramount measure of the sense and value of law is life and its need”. He believed that law should be evaluated in particular on the basis of ethical criteria. In the atmosphere of legal positivism of that period Svoboda was regarded as a solitaire, but his views did not sink.

Keywords

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SVOBODA EMIL; CIVIL LAW; SOCIOLOGY OF LAW

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 535 – 553

Contributors

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Eliáš Karel

• Právnická fakulta, Trnavská univerzita, Trnava, Slovak Republic