Madhavi Bohra (CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY) has posted Relevance of Fredrick Karl Von Savigny’s Theory in Contemporary Era on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Friedrich Carl Von Savigny (21 February 1779 – 25 October 1861) was the founder of historical school of law and was the most respected and influential 19th century Jurists. Savigny is called “the greatest Jurist that Europe has produced”. He was a pioneering legal scientist who made lasting contributions to jurisprudence. He connected the present the legal situation with the past laws. he was more than the philosopher. He holds the point of view that the law must be constant with the spirit of the people. Savigny developed his theory as a weapon to resist the wholesale imposition of a legal code which he regarded as alien to and ill-suited for the emerging German states. Savigny's basic theory is that it is impossible to create law out of whole cloth-it grows in a slow, unconscious, organic way from its primitive beginning in the minds of the people of a nation.
