H. Hart's views on the problem of the classification of R. Ihering’s legal doctrine in the context of analytical jurisprudence

The article deals with the problem of interpreting the typological nature of R. Ihering’s legal views by H. Hart, a leading representative of neo-positivistic analytical legal theory, a well-known English jurist of the 20th century. The essence of the problem lies in an unreasonable attempt of H. Hart to identify ideological and theoretical origins of R. Ihering’s interpretation of law in the context of J. Bentham’s and J. Austin’s legal doctrines as well as an incorrect assessment of the impact of R. Ihering’s legal views on the formation of legal doctrines of American realists and sociological jurisprudence (R. Pound). The study is to clarify the ideological and theoretical origins of the formation of empirical and sociological, legal and positivistic approach to the interpretation of law in the legal doctrine by R. Ihering. The research methodology is based on theoretical and historical analysis of political and legal doctrines as well as the specific methods of the philological analysis of the text.