Rethinking Radbruch’s Laws That Are Not Right and Right Above the Laws. A New Translation with Introductory Note
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Copernican Journal of Law, 2025, No. 2 (1/2025), s. 37-57
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Rethinking Radbruch’s Laws That Are Not Right and Right Above the Laws. A New Translation with Introductory Note
A new translation of Gustav Radbruch’s Laws That Are Not Right and Right Above the Laws is published and its relevance explained and illuminated. Although there is an excellent translation published by the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the present one adopts a perspective closer to Roman Law and, therefore, closer to Radbruch’s own juridical vocabulary and understanding of justice. It is difficult to over-emphasize the relevance of Radbruch’s short work. He had been a positivist before the Nazi Party’s rise to power. After the experience of Hitler’s totalitarian rule, he realized that legal positivism is wrong and proposed some judicious principles for the application of natural Right to the problems posed by crimes committed during the Nazi era. This little work should have been the death blow for positivism. Surprisingly, however, after the formulation of Radbruch’s deep insights there was a strong positivist reaction that threw them into oblivion. There even have been attempts to destroy Radbruch’s character through a misconstruction of his actions. It is time to bring his insights back to memory and to defend his character.
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