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Grotius, a Dutchman, is the pioneer of modern western bourgeois thought and the founder of international law. He is also known as "the father of international law" and "the father of natural law". His masterpiece The Right of War and Peace (1625) is not only an important work of international law, but also a pioneering work of the basic natural law or natural rights theory of western bourgeois human rights theory. He used to be a lawyer, judge and diplomat. 16 18 was imprisoned for being involved in political and religious conflicts in the Netherlands, and 162 1 successfully escaped from prison. He took refuge in France and served as the Swedish ambassador to France for a long time. He died on the way back from Sweden on 1645. His research scope is quite extensive. But what made him famous was the law. Among his legal works, one is about ancient Dutch law and Roman law, which he wrote during his imprisonment, and the other three are all about international law.
Montesquieu is a great French enlightenment thinker and jurist. Montesquieu was a famous thinker in the French Enlightenment in the18th century, and one of the early scholars in modern European countries who systematically studied the ancient oriental society and legal culture. Although his works are few, they have a wide influence, especially the Spirit of Law, which laid the foundation for the development of modern western political and legal theories and influenced Europe to a great extent.
Jeremy Bentham (1748 February15-1832 June 6) was a British jurist, utilitarian philosopher, economist and social reformer. He is a political radical, a pioneer and leader of the British legal reform movement, and is known as the founder and animal of utilitarian philosophy.
Savigny (savigny, Friedrich Calvin; ; 1779 ~ 186 1) German jurist, the main representative of the school of historical law, the founder of this school G Gustav Hugo (1764 ~ 1844), was a student of an aristocratic family. 18 10 began to teach at marburg university and lanshute university in Bavaria, Germany. After the establishment of Berlin University, he taught in this school for 30 years. In the meantime,
Oliver Vendel Homas was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Joined the Union Army in the Civil War, 1866 became a lawyer, 1899 became a professor at Harvard Law School and a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. 1902 to 1932 were judges of the United States supreme court. Holmes is recognized as the founder of American pragmatic law, social law and legal realism. In the book Common Law, he put forward the famous legal empiricism that "the life of law lies in experience, not in logic" and the legal prediction theory that "law is a prediction of what the court will do", and expounded limited compliance.
Roscoe pound (1870- 1964) was a famous American jurist in the 20th century. 1870, Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. Pound studied botany at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
A year later, he transferred to Northwest University Law School, where he completed his law degree. He returned to Nebraska as a lawyer to continue his botanical research. 1988, he received his doctorate in botany from the University of Nebraska. 38980 . 6898888988 1
Ronald Dworkin (1931—) is one of the most famous and active jurists in contemporary times. Dworkin was born in Massachusetts, USA, and received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College, Oxford University and Harvard University. Get a master's degree from Yale University. Ronald Dworkin is recognized as one of the most influential figures in contemporary British and American legal theory tradition. Generally speaking, Dworkin showed a kind of jurisprudence under the guidance of political liberalism. Each of his important works has aroused extensive discussion, including approvers and critics.
Richard allen Posner (1939-) is one of the most outstanding legal economists since 1970s. He applied the concise economic theory that people benefit from mutual voluntary transactions and the principles of market economy related to economic efficiency to the study of legal system and legal theory, which laid a theoretical foundation for the study of legal economics and made outstanding contributions to the development of general legal theory.