Radbruch's Philosophy of Law and Its Meaning Reevaluated

第二次世界大战后，拉德布鲁赫认为，主张“法律就是法律”的法律实证主义使德国律师和人民“毫无防备”地免受纳粹主义的可怕不公。基于对纳粹时代法律实践的历史研究，这种说法（“拉德布鲁赫的论点”）最近受到了负面评价。但这种评价被证明是不恰当的，与拉德布鲁赫的真正意图相反，从他早期的作品中阐明。

After World War II, Radbruch argued that legal positivism asserting ‘law is law’ had left German lawyers and the people ‘unguarded’ from the terrible injustices of Nazism. This indication (‘Radbruch’s Thesis’) has recently been subjected to a negative evaluation, based on historical studies of legal practices in the Nazi era. But this evaluation is shown to be inappropriate, in contrast with Radbruch’s real intention, as elucidated from his earlier works.