Anders Vilhelm Lundstedt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish philosopher
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Place of Birth: Domkyrkoförsamlingen i Göteborg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
About Anders Vilhelm Lundstedt
- Anders Vilhelm Lundstedt (11 September 1882 – 20 August 1955) was a Swedish jurist and legislator, particularly known as a proponent of Scandinavian Legal Realism, having been strongly influenced by his compatriot, the charismatic philosopher Axel Hägerström.
- He studied Law at Lund University and was a professor of law at the University of Uppsala from 1914 to 1947.
- Like Hägerström, Karl Olivecrona and Alf Ross, he resists the exposition of rights as metaphysical entities, arguing that realistic legal analysis should dispense with them.
- Lundstedt's main focus in his theoretical work became a sustained attack on what he called the method of justice.
- He considered that there was no objective way to define the requirements of justice and that invocations of justice cloaked purely subjective preferences or unacceptable metaphysical claims.
- Instead, law and legislation should be guided by a method of social welfare centred on objective study of social conditions and of the practical effects and capabilities of law in improving society for all its members.
- Lundstedt was a member of the Swedish parliament for many years and promoted within it changes to the penal system and a range of other liberal reforms.
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