There are two different conceptions of law that legal science in continental Europe evolved in the early 19th century: These two conceptions developed out of two different language areas—the French area and the Germanic area—and with this also came two different ways of understanding the activity of the jurists, theoretical and practical alike.
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Becchi, P. (2009). German Legal Science: The Crisis of Natural Law Theory, the Historicisms, and “Conceptual Jurisprudence”. In: Pattaro, E., Canale, D., Grossi, P., Hofmann, H., Riley, P. (eds) A Treatise of Legal Philosophy and General Jurisprudence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2964-5_5
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