From the school of legal socialism to the social jurist movement in Europe: the misguided label of Juristen-Sozialismus in Germany, France and Italy

At the end of 19th centuries, the European legal landscape was challenged by the social question. The rediscovery of the social dimension of reality led to the birth of a various movement of jurists who argued for the socialisation of the law as a means of the resolving the social question. This European tendency is known as Juristen-Sozialismus in Germany, Socialisme juridique in France and Socialismo giuridico in Italy. However the label legal socialism is false as it can be said to have led to the oblivion of many of the theories produced by jurists of this movement. To describe the theses process of socialisation of European law, this article proposes a movement of private social law.