ABSTRACT
The scientific discussion that took place between the two protagonists during the first German Congress of sociology in Frankfurt in October 1910 can be reconstructed. On this occasion, Max Weber formulated severe reservations with respect to the realist movement, reservations that he would explain more deeply in the final chapter of his Sociology of Law. The similarities of perspective between Weber and Hermann Kantorowicz, with respect to the epistemological status of sociology as opposed to jurisprudence, deal with the object, the method and the autonomy of this discipline. An attentive reading of Weber's methodological and sociological writings demonstrates in fact that he identified a certain number of bridges between sociology and legal dogmatics. In his critical study on the methodological work of the historian Eduard Meyer, Weber comes to specify the notion of causality that belongs to the sciences of culture.
