Teisės filosofijos studijos tarpukario Lietuvoje
Learning Philosophy of Law in the Interwar Lithuania

Summary/Abstract: After the establishment of the University of Lithuania in 1922 lectures on the legal theory and philosophy of law were given. P. Leonas was the main professor who delivered lectures on this subject. There was no literature in Lithuanian language at that time. The first works of philosophy included a book „Philosophy of Law“ that was published by the priest J. Skruodis in 1923, the lectures on the philosophy of law compiled by P. Leonas and published in 1926, and the first textbook on philosophy of law that was written by the same author and published in 1928. A supplement to this textbook appeared later, in which the philosophy of law in ancient China, India, Egypt was analyzed. Not only these works of P. Leonas were significant, but also the articles written by him and other lawyers, philosophers and public figures. The articles were published in the periodicals „Logos“, „Kultūra“, „Židinys“. Other significant works: K. von Gareis’s work „Encyclopedia and Methodology of Law“ translated by students of the Faculty of Law, the textbook on the lectures on legal theory published by P. Leonas, the supplemented second edition of these lectures and lecture notes taken by D. Krivickas. The article aims to reveal the content, process and sources of studies on philosophy of law in the interwar Lithuania.

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