# Alf Ross

> Alf Niels Christian Ross was a Danish jurist, legal philosopher and judge of the European Court of Human Rights (1959-1971). He is best known as one of the leading figures of Scandinavian legal realism. His debate in 1959 with the prominent British legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart - which began in the Cambridge Law Journal - was important in framing the modern conflict between legal positivism and legal realism.

*Danish jurist (1899-1979)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Sweden
- **Born:** 1899-06-10
- **Died:** 1979-08-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

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