attract far greater cultural authority which lawyers cannot safely ignore. Norms for decision regulate only those disputes that are brought before a judicial or other tribunal. Living law is a necessary framework for the routine structuring of social relationships. Its source is in the many different kinds of social associations in which people co-exist. Its essence is not dispute and litigation, but peace and co-operation. What counts as law (again, from a sociological perspective) depends on what kind of authority exists to give it legal significance among those it is supposed to regulate. Ehrlich's teaching is that the sources of law's authority are plural. Some sources are political and others are cultural. As such, political and cultural sources may conflict. But not all social norms should be thought of as 'law', in Ehrlich's view. Legal norms (again, understood sociologically, rather than juristically) are typically distinguished from merely moral or customary ones by powerful feelings of revulsion which typically attach to breach of them. They are, thus, regarded as socially fundamental. In addition, legal norms are recognisable as such because they concern certain kinds of relationships, transactions and circumstances which he described as 'facts of the law' (Tatsachen des Rechts) — specially important topics or considerations for social regulation. See also Hugo Sinzheimer Otto von Gierke Otto Kahn-Freund Karl Marx Notes References Nezhurbida, Sergiy and Maria Diachuk (2018). Eugen Ehrlich : Bibliographic Index (Series in Law). With Introductory article of Manfred Rehbider, edited by Slavka Tomascikova. Vernon Press, 352 p. Ерліх, Євген. Монтеск’є та соціологічна юриспруденція / Пер. з анг. і передмова С.І. Нежурбіди // Науковий вісник Чернівецького університету: Збірник наук. праць. Вип. 728: Правознавство. - Чернівці: ЧНУ, 2014. – C. 5-14. Sergij Neshurbida, Manfred Rehbinder (2021). Eugen Ehrlich an der Franz‐Josephs‐Universität in Czernowitz. Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs 11(1). . 1862 births 1922 deaths People from the Duchy of Bukovina Bukovina Jews Sociology of law Rectors of Franz Joseph University (Czernowitz) Austrian jurists Austrian sociologists