Eugen Ehrlich

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Eugen Ehrlich (1862 - 1922) was an Austrian legal scholar. He was born in Czernowitz (now Chernivtsi in Ukraine) which was at that time part of the Bukovina province of the Austro-Hungarian empire; these circumstances of his birth were significant, as his experience of Bukovina's legal culture, where Austrian law and local custom seemed to co-exist, caused him to question the hierarchical notions of law propounded by such theorists as Hans Kelsen. Ehrlich investigated the sociology of law.