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Alf Ross | |
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Born | Alf Niels Christian Ross 10 June 1899 Copenhagen, Denmark |
Died | 17 August 1979 Virum, Denmark | (aged 80)
Nationality | Danish |
Citizenship | Danish |
Alma mater | University of Copenhagen, Uppsala University |
Known for | Ross's paradox |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Law, philosophy of law, sociology of law |
Institutions | University of Copenhagen (1929–1969) |
Thesis | Theorie der Rechtsquellen: ein Beitrag zur Theorie des positiven Rechts auf Grundlage dogmenhistorischer Untersuchungen (1929) |
Doctoral advisor | Axel Hägerström |
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).[1] He is best known as one of the leading figures of Scandinavian legal realism. His debate in 1959 with the prominent British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart – which began in the Cambridge Law Journal (Vol. 17) – was important in framing the modern conflict between legal positivism and legal realism.[2][3]
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