The Struggle for Law. Translated From the Fifth German Edition.

translated by John J. Lalor. Jhering, Rudolph von [1818-1892]. The Struggle for Law. Translated From the Fifth German Edition by John J. Lalor. Second Edition, with an Introduction by Albert Kocourek. Chicago: Callaghan and Company, 1915. lii, 138 pp. Reprint. New York: Legal Classics Library, 1991. Calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Internally clean. A fine copy. $30. * Reprint of the second English edition (1915). First published in German in 1872 as Der Kampf ums Recht, the work attracted wide attention and was reissued in several revised editions and translated into a dozen foreign languages. The author was a renowned scholar of Roman law who wrote in a lively style. One legal historian called him "the Mark Twain of German jurisprudence." In this essay he discusses what the law is and how the law changes. It is a classic in the perennial struggle to make the law a means for achieving social change.