ABSTRACT
Early Life Eugen Ehrlich was born in Czernowitz in the Duchy of Bukovina, a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied law at the University of Vienna and, after completing his doctorate degree in law, he became a professor of law at the university. From 1899 through 1914, Ehrlich served as an associate professor of Roman law at the University of Czernowitz. It was while he was at his latter post at this obscure university that he completed his life's work on sociology and the law, the work for which he is best known internationally. While a young man, Ehrlich converted from Judaism to Catholicism, though he later devoted much of his energies to addressing Jewish concerns in Europe. Despite his conversion, he found it impossible to teach after World War I because of pervasive anti-Semitism, and he confined himself largely to publishing.
