Gustav Radbruch Quote

It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law's claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the right to the authoritative command of the law, to ask only what is legal and ask not if it is also just.


Rechtsphilosophie (1932)


It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law's claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the right to the authoritative...

It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law's claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the right to the authoritative...

It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law's claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the right to the authoritative...

It is the professional duty of the judge to validate the law's claim to validity, to sacrifice his own sense of the right to the authoritative...