ABSTRACT
Max Weber’s formal academic training exposed him to the best of contemporary legal thinking, at a time when legal science was the discipline at the top of the academic hierarchy. He wrote extensively on the historical sociology of law, a much discussed topic that owes much to the historiographical tradition that informed his dissertations. The framework of the philosophy of law found another crucial application in Weber’s continuous reflection on the problems of leadership and the question of constitutional reform. Weber uses two primary clusters of legal science literature in constructing his basic conception of sociology. One pertains to the problem of legal causality. The second is the lnteressenjurisprudenz of Rudolf von Ihering and the general philosophical and historical account of law which underwrites this conception.
