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The psychological theory of law proposed by Leon Petrażycki has become an inspiration for a number of Russian legal scholars—including his students who vigorously advocated his ideas. This chapter aims at analyzing two main directions in the development of Petrażycki’s theory: the psychological and the sociological. As for the former, the ideas of such authors as M. Laserson and A. Kruglevsky are presented while for the latter, the works of P. Sorokin and N. Timasheff are discussed. Moreover, the author demonstrates that, despite some differences pertaining to the prevalence of a sociological or psychological perspective, the ideas of each of the discussed authors can be regarded as a unified approach to law, namely Russian legal realism.
This paper is based on Stanek J (2017) Rosyjski realizm prawny, Wolters Kluwer SA, Warszawa.
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According to Timasheff, a reference group which initiates the process of the transformation of a law (or, using his terminology: the leading social stratum) is composed of the most intelligent and educated individuals in a given society.
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It is important to notice that N. Korkunov’s theory was used to examine the issue of the significance of governance. This is acknowledged by Timasheff himself in his article Kak ya stal sotsiologom.
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Incidentally, it is worth noticing that the adoption of the behavioral perspective by Timasheff was caused by his conviction of the existence of an analogy “between the structure of a legal norm and the tendency of the learnt behavior. The norm hypothesis corresponds to the stimulus situation; instruction – to reaction …” (Timasheff 1961, 488).
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Stanek, J. (2018). Between Psychology and Sociology: The Continuators of Psychological Legal Theory. In: Brożek, B., Stanek, J., Stelmach, J. (eds) Russian Legal Realism. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 125. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98821-4_10
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