Jurisprudence of interests
{{Short description|European legal doctrine of the early 20th century}}
In European legal history and the philosophy of law, the jurisprudence of interests is a doctrine of legal positivism{{cite web|url=http://www.arcos.org.br/livros/hermeneutica-juridica/capitulo-i-o-senso-comum-dos-juristas/2-a-jurisprudencia-dos-interesses/|title=A Jurisprudência dos Interesses|author=Costa, Alexandre Araújo|publisher=Arcos|accessdate=17 December 2011|archive-date=3 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120103111229/http://www.arcos.org.br/livros/hermeneutica-juridica/capitulo-i-o-senso-comum-dos-juristas/2-a-jurisprudencia-dos-interesses|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://amigonerd.net/trabalho/26155-jurisprudencia-dos-interesses|title=Jurisprudência dos Interesses|author=Freitas, Edilene Maria Campos de|publisher=Amigo Nerd|accessdate=17 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173342/http://amigonerd.net/trabalho/26155-jurisprudencia-dos-interesses|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}} of the early 20th century, according to which a written law must be interpreted to reflect the interests it is to promote. The main proponents of the jurisprudence of interests were Philipp Heck, Rudolf Müller-Erzbach, Arthur F. Bentley and Roscoe Pound.{{cite web|url=http://www.sage-ereference.com/abstract/law/n392.xml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714213109/http://www.sage-ereference.com/abstract/law/n392.xml|url-status=usurped|archive-date=July 14, 2014|title=Jurisprudence Of Interests, American|accessdate=8 February 2012}}
The school of legal positivism passed through the phase of the jurisprudence of interests after the jurisprudence of concepts. In the jurisprudence of interests, one interprets a law essentially in terms of the purposes it is intended to accomplish. This doctrine is characterized by the idea of obedience to law, and subsumption as the resolution of conflicts of interests in the concrete and in the abstract,{{cite web|url=http://pt.shvoong.com/ew-and-politics/1629739-jurisprud%C3%AAncia-interesses/|title=Jurisprudência de Interesses|author=Cardoso, Rosa|date=12 July 2007|publisher=Shvoong|accessdate=27 December 2011}} whereby the interests necessary to life in society, as materialized in that law, should prevail. It is therefore a distinctly teleological school.