id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9650 Alf Ross - Wikipedia .html text/html 1362 261 65 Alf Niels Christian Ross (10 June 1899 – 17 August 1979) was a Danish jurist, legal philosopher and judge of the European Court of Human Rights (1959–1971).[2] He is best known as one of the leading figures of Scandinavian legal realism. Ross studied law at the University of Copenhagen graduating in 1922. On Law and Justice[edit] His determination not to rely on anything but the facts leads to statements as the following: "The legal rule is neither true nor false; it is a directive." (On Law and Justice, § 2 (p. Wikipedia articles with BNE identifiers Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9650.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9650.txt