Heinrich Triepel

Heinrich Triepel (12 February 1868, Leipzig – 23 November 1946) was a German jurist and legal philosopher. From 1913, he was professor of law in Berlin. He took critical aim at legal positivism, which at the time was the dominant legal conception in the German-speaking world.

Main Works:

• «Völkerrecht und Landesrecht», 1899;
• «Die Zukunft des Völkerrechts», 1916;
• «Die Hegemonie – Ein Buch von führenden Staaten», 1938.