They were not mere legal philosophers, but disposed of practical and "burning" questions of their time.
Luis Recasens (1903-1977) was a Spanish politician and a legal philosopher.
Radbruch is also regarded as one of the most influential legal philosophers of the 20th century.
This explains the attraction soft conventionalism has had for a recent generation of legal philosophers.
Some legal philosophers offer an argument attempting exactly that.
Finnis is one of the most prominent living legal philosophers.
She didn't want to be a lawyer, but a legal philosopher.
At first, jurists and legal philosophers were suspicious of sociology of law.
Some legal philosophers and critics hotly dispute this reading, however.
Raz is acknowledged by his contemporaries as being one of the most important living legal philosophers.