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Gustav Radbruch (1878–1949) was a German legal philosopher, criminalist, and politician. In his short essay, “Statutory Lawlessness and Supra-Statutory Law” (1946), he denied the validity of National Socialist “law,” which was influential in German legal practice, but has since been disputed. It is up for debate whether his argument in the essay is consistent with his works published before 1945. Further, it is questioned whether his non-positivistic claim is persuasive at all.
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Adachi, H. (2023). Radbruch, Gustav. In: Zanetti, G., Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Handbook of the History of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Studies in the History of Law and Justice, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19550-1_30
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