Download or read book The Struggle for Law written by Rudolf von Jhering and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in German in 1872 as Der Kampf ums Recht, the work attracted wide attention and was reissued in several revised editions and translated into a dozen foreign languages. The author was a renowned scholar of Roman law who wrote in a lively style. One legal historian called him "the Mark Twain of German jurisprudence." In this essay he discusses what the law is and how the law changes. It is a classic in the perennial struggle to make the law a means for achieving social change.