IHERING’S SOCIAL INTEREST THEORY: A CRITICAL STUDY
IHERING’S SOCIAL INTEREST THEORY: A CRITICAL STUDY INTRODUCTION:- Ihering was educated at berlin in Germany. He was professor at Basel. His spirit of law was published in four volumes during 1852-1865.later,he published his principle work which translated as ‘Law As Means To An End ‘in 1913.In this work he criticised the nation of individual freedom and liberty as advocated by Kant and Bentham as they had divorce legal theory from social realities .He thus opposed the doctrine of individualism which ,in his view was incompatible to the cause of social justice.Ihring opined that social interest of the society must gain priority over individual interest and the purpose of law should be to protect the interest of the society. His legal philosophy on sociological aspects of law. [1] Ihering laid the foundation of modern sociological jurisprudence by this insistence on treating law as one of the important factors to control the social organism .According to him i)