The understanding of the nature of law in the teachings by B.N. Chicherin and L.I. Petrazhitsky
The aim of the study was to examine the views of the liberal pre-revolutionary Russian scientists N.N. Chicherin and L.I. Petrazhitsky on the sources of law. Chicherin believed that the spiritual nature of the person is freedom. The source of law is freedom. According to Petrazhitsky law is emotions at least of one person that have an attribute character. Chicherin discovered a fundamental shortcoming of the Petrazhitsky theory that for the relationship always requires two persons. If another person does not recognize the right of the first, no legal relationship, but there is only a one-sided claim. Chicherin and Petrazhitsky have distanced themselves from the dominant theory, establishing the right to the interest. Both of them, albeit from different positions advocated the rule of law in Russia.