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Legal nihilism is negative attitude toward law.[1] Legal nihilism is "an erosion of the belief in law as a beneficial institution of societal organization."[2] Many scholars believe that legal nihilism is a destructive phenomenon.[3]
Depending on the law it denies, legal nihilism can be internal and international.
- ^ The Parker School Journal of East European Law. Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. 1998. p. 354. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
Legal nihilism is such an attitude towards law.
- ^ Josef Kohler; Fritz Berolzheimer (1987). Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Verlag für Staatswissenschaften und Geschichte. p. 216.
Legal nihilism is "an erosion of the belief in law as a beneficial institution of societal organization."
- ^ Evgenia Ivanova (October 2010). Legal Nihilism as Social and Discursive Practice: The Case of Belarus. VDM Publishing. ISBN 978-3-639-18666-6.
Legal nihilism, according to scientists, politicians, journalists and other public figures, is a very destructive, widely spread phenomenon in contemporary Belarus (Russia, Ukraine and some other countries of the former-USSR) and typical for this territory.