Abstract

The IVR did not spring into existence instantaneously. In 1907, Dr. iur. Josef Kohler and Dr. iur. Fritz Berolzheimer observed that the interest in the philosophy of law and in economic philosophy had grown over the past few years and that its future development required the international cooperation of many scholars. Therefore they decided to found the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie, to be known as the IVR, and its journal, the Archiv für Rechts- und Wirtschaftsphilosophie. Although the journal was established before the end of 1907, the IVR did not come into existence until 1909, when its constitution was officially registered in Berlin by Josef Kohler, Fritz Berolsheimer and Carl Fürstenberg.