id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6171 Leon Petrażycki - Wikipedia .html text/html 1574 254 57 A prolific writer in several languages and famous lecturer with a large following of students, Petrażycki committed suicide in 1931.[1] However, Petrażycki's contribution to legal sociology and legal theory continues to be debated within various fields of legal research and applied to the study of current legal problems.[2] Petrażycki's theory of law is anti-statist and very critical of the legal positivism of his time, which he takes to task for being naive and lacking a truly scientific basis because of its focus on norms, rather than the experience of those norms. Timasheff, Georges Gurvitch, and Pitirim Sorokin, who each in various ways contributed to formulate a more distinctly sociological perspective, derived from and complementary to Petrażycki's psychological theory.[3] Edoardo Fittipaldi, Everyday Legal Ontology: A Linguistic and Psychological Investigation within the Framework of Leon Petrażycki's Theory of Law. Milan: LED 2012. Hidden categories: Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6171.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6171.txt