rättsrealisme
Rättsrealism is a school of legal thought that emerged in the early 20th century, primarily in the United States and Scandinavia. It challenges traditional legal positivism and natural law by focusing on law as it is actually practiced and experienced, rather than as it is formally stated in statutes or abstract principles. Realists argue that legal decisions are not simply the logical application of pre-existing rules to facts, but are instead influenced by a variety of social, economic, psychological, and political factors.
American legal realism, with figures like Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Karl Llewellyn, and Jerome Frank, emphasized
Scandinavian legal realism, associated with thinkers like Axel Hägerström, Vilhelm Lundstedt, and Karl Olivecrona, shared a