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jurisprudence.
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indeed be difficult to exaggerate. The records of the extensive preparatory
investigations have been published in recent times under most efficient and able
editorship.
It was only natural that the theoretical science of jurisprudence should develop
along those national lines that had been laid down for it in the new Code. To
enter into the spirit of that Code more and more, to penetrate into early
Swedish law with greater thoroughness, those were the aim and object of legal
writers in the eighteenth century, especially of the most eminent of them, D.
Nehr-man, or, to give him the titled name conferred upon him, Ehrenstråle (1695 —
1769), and M. Calonius (1737—1817).
During the nineteenth century the study of the history of law was very
materially advanced by the monumental edition of the Swedish medieval laws
that was the fruit of the extraordinary industry and acumen of K. J. Schlyter
(1795—1888). Next in importance to that gigantic production there come
the extensive drafts of laws that emanated from the Law Committee and from
the earlier Law-Drafting Board; over the major part of the labours of those
bodies J. O. Richert (1784—1864) was the presiding genius. Those drafts
of laws, which even though important elements contained in them were derived
from abroad nevertheless in a preeminent degree breathe the spirit of Swedish
law, can stand comparison, even in a formal respect, with the Code of 1734.
That work has subsequently heen pursued more especially by the two bodies:
The New Law-Drafting Board and The Law-Drafting Board, which latter was
reconstituted in 1902 for the express purpose of having a complete recast made
of the said Code, section by section. Swedish jurists, owing to joint labours by
representatives of the Scandinavian countries in respect to special departments
of legislative work, have been in a position to exercise a certain degree of
influence upon the development also of Norwegian and Danish law.
A thorough study of the history of law, a widely drawn comparison between
Swedish and foreign legal theory and practice, and a methodical grounding in
general law principles have combined in the works of a number of authors on
juridical subjects to advance the science effectively. Of those authors there
deserve to be mentioned more especially the following, in addition to a number of
writers still living: J. Holmbergsson (1764—1842), F. G. G. Schrevelius (1799
—1865), P. E. Bergfalk (1798 — 1890), S. R. D. K. Olivecrona (1817—1905),
E. V. Nordling (1832—98), J. V. Hagströmer (1845—1910) and A. 0. Winroth
(1852—1914). A third faculty of law, besides the two in Uppsala and Lund,
has been recently established at the Stockholm University, and the total
number of professorial chairs in law is at present twenty-two. Of writers in
the domain of jurisprudence who are now living there may be enumerated the
following: I. Afzelius (b. 1848), N. Alexanderson (b. 1875), T. Almén {b. 1871),
C. G. Bergman (b. 1881), O. G. E. Björling (b. 1870), B. H. Dahlberg (b. 1860),
D. Davidson (b. 1854), C. Delin (b. 1865), B. Ekeberg (b. 1880), Th. Engström.er
(b. 1878), A. Ernberg (b. 1872), Hj. L. Hammarskjöld (b. 1862), B. Hasselrot
(b. 1862), E. Kallenberg (b. 1866), R. Kleen (b. 1841), G. R. Malmgren (b. 1875),
C. A. Reuterskiöld (b. 1870), V. Sjögren (b. 1866), N. Stjernberg (b. 1873),
G. Thulin (b. 1865), J. C. W. Thyrén (b. 1861), E. Trygger (b. 1857), O.
Varenius (b. 1857), K. G. Westman (b. 1876), K. Wicksell (b. 1851)
It would doubtless be impossible to categorise present-day Swedish
jurisprudence, or indeed any large portion of it, as belonging to any particular school
either Swedish or foreign. On the other hand, it is beyond dispute that the
idealistic philosophy, which, originated or worked up by numbers of Swedish
scholars, came to its fullest development at the hands of Boström, has exercised
during recent decades a very strong influence on the science of law.
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