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Marxist Theory and Law: an Essay Review of Three Books

Marxist Theory and Law: an Essay Review of Three Books 35 MARXIST THEORY AND LAW: AN ESSAY REVIEW OF THREE BOOKS* WILLIAM JEFFREY, JR. Professor of Comparative Law, University of Cinncinnati Law School The complicated interplay between belief-systems and legal systems offers matter of great interest to students in at least three disciplines: comparative law, sociology of law, and legal history. An important contemporary example of this interrelationship is to be found in the complex connections between Marxism, one of the world's great religions, and those legal systems which, as "socialist", claim prima facie to be based thereon. Exhibiting a diversity of viewpoints, three recent publications suggest reflection on this theme. Listed in the order of their consideration in this review, these publications include 1) an essay on the general theory of law and Marxism by an early Soviet writer; 2) a popular exposition of the Marxist conception of law, from the USSR Academy of Sciences; and 3) an empirical and historical study by a British scholar, specifically concentrated on Marxist ideology and Soviet crim- inal law. _ I. Unless they have been compelled to the choice by considerations too imperious to be resisted, students who choose a Marxistl 1 perspective as the frame- work of their scholarship http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Socialist Law (in 1992 continued as Review of Central and East European Law) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1983 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0165-0300
eISSN
1875-2985
DOI
10.1163/187529883X00036
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35 MARXIST THEORY AND LAW: AN ESSAY REVIEW OF THREE BOOKS* WILLIAM JEFFREY, JR. Professor of Comparative Law, University of Cinncinnati Law School The complicated interplay between belief-systems and legal systems offers matter of great interest to students in at least three disciplines: comparative law, sociology of law, and legal history. An important contemporary example of this interrelationship is to be found in the complex connections between Marxism, one of the world's great religions, and those legal systems which, as "socialist", claim prima facie to be based thereon. Exhibiting a diversity of viewpoints, three recent publications suggest reflection on this theme. Listed in the order of their consideration in this review, these publications include 1) an essay on the general theory of law and Marxism by an early Soviet writer; 2) a popular exposition of the Marxist conception of law, from the USSR Academy of Sciences; and 3) an empirical and historical study by a British scholar, specifically concentrated on Marxist ideology and Soviet crim- inal law. _ I. Unless they have been compelled to the choice by considerations too imperious to be resisted, students who choose a Marxistl 1 perspective as the frame- work of their scholarship

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Review of Socialist Law (in 1992 continued as Review of Central and East European Law)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1983

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