Essays in Legal Philosophy

Eugenio Bulygin was born in 1931 in the city of Kharkov (Russia); his father was an engineer, his mother taught German and French. Two years after the Germans first occupied Kharkov, the family, in 1943, was deported to a labour camp near Linz. It was only after the War that Eugenio Bulygin attended school in Linz on a regular basis; German became his second language The family had no interest in returning to Russia and decided, in 1949, to emigate to Argentina. From 1952 to 1958, Bulygin studied law at the University of Buenos Aires. There he met Carlos E. Alchourrón, who became his close friend. Both were appointed as professors at the University of Buenos Aires, and they worked together for decades, until Alchourrón's death in 1996, on problems in analytical jurisprudence, logic, and norm theory. Bulygin has lectured and participated in conference around the world. In legal philosophy circles in the Spanish-speaking countries and in Italy, Bulygin is well nigh a household name.

For the first time, the essays of Eugenio Bulygin, a distinguished representative of legal science and legal philosophy, are available in an English-language collection.

Introduction Part I: Normative Systems and Legal Positivism. Eugenio Bulygin and the Philosophy of Law