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Alf Ross

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Alf Niels Christian Ross lived from 1899 to 1979 and was a Danish jurist, legal philosopher and judge of the European Court of Human Rights from 1959 to 1971. He is best known as one of the leading figures of Scandinavian legal realism, and his 1959 debate with the prominent British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart, which began in the Cambridge Law Journal, was important in framing the modern conflict between legal positivism and legal realism.

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Denmark 1
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1899 1
Died
1979 1
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