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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > key people in law and society > Karl Olivecrona
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Karl Olivecrona  

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  • A dominating juristic figure in his native Sweden and widely recognized abroad, Karl Olivecrona was a leader of the movement known as Scandinavian legal realism or the Uppsala School of legal philosophy. He studied law at Uppsala University, where the antimetaphysical teachings of the philosopher Axel Hägerström (1868–1939) strongly influenced him. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Olivecrona, Karl]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JQMLQLZF-S

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