Phenomenology shaped the Freiburg jurists’ theory of law

Evidence

Eucken was appointed professor of political economy at Freiburg in 1927 where he met Husserl, encounteredphenomenology, and met a number of the jurists who were eventually so important in the theory of law in twentieth century Germany, who themselves came into contact with phenomenology and who tried to re-elaborate a theory of law that tried to avoid both the constraints of nineteenth century historicism and rcclsen’s formalist, axiomatic, statist conception. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 625

Categorization

• QUESTION: Exactly how did phenomenology (especially Husserl) feed into Ordoliberal legal theory? Foucault asserts the contact but does not develop it.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s Freiburg-school origins were anticartel and then mutated in Chile — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 764