6 Modern Schools of Law – Analytical, Historical, Philosophical, Comparative, Sociological and Marxian Concept of Law
There has been a sharp cleavage between different schools of jurisprudence or the science of law. Each school looks at it from its own point of view and lays emphasis upon some sources of law and its enforcement.Among the most important modern schools of legal study are the following:1. The Analytical School: ADVERTISEMENTS: John Austin may be regarded as the founder of the Analytical School, though he drew his inspiration from Hobbes, and Bentham, his teacher. To him law is a command given by a superior to an inferior and enforced by material sanctions.Every positive law is a creation of the sovereign power, which either established it directly or authorised some subordinate person or body to establish it, and penalties are incurred for its disobedience.The Analytical School, thus, emphasises that…