Leon Petrażycki’s Theory and Women’s Rights
Leon Petrażycki’s Theory and Women’s Rights

Summary/Abstract: L. Petrażycki belonged to the Petersburg group of Russian liberals of Jewish and Polish origin grouped around the first weekly “Pravo” dealing with legal culture in the Empire. Defending the rights of national minorities, he also upheld women’s rights not only in the publications, but also as deputy to the first Russian parliament (Duma) elected in 1905 and as a teacher at women’s university courses. On the other hand, his socio-psychological theory of law (which leaves room for analysis of women’s discrimination that survived in the unofficial law of family as well as in the concept of legal emotions) makes it possible to distinguish three stages in the development of women’s legal status.

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