Hendrik van Eikema Hommes
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Hendrik Jan van Eikema Hommes (May 3, 1930, IJlst
IJlst
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 - September 3, 1984, Bussum
Bussum
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) was a noted Dutch legal scholar and successor to Herman Dooyeweerd
Herman Dooyeweerd
Herman Dooyeweerd was a Dutch juridical scholar by training, who by vocation was a philosopher and the founder of the philosophy of the cosmonomic idea. He received early support for his work from his brother-in-law D. H. Th. Vollenhoven...

 in the post of philosopher and judicial scholar at Vrije Universiteit
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, Amsterdam
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, Netherlands
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Hommes wrote an Introduction to the Philosophy of Dooyeweerd, along with numerous legal studies.

Academic works

  • Hommes, H J Van Eikema. Major trends in the history of legal philosophy. Amsterdam: North Holland, 1979.
  • Hommes, H J Van Eikema. "Freedom and equality in constitutional and civil law." In: Equality and Freedom: International and Comparative Jurisprudence. Papers of the World Congress on Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. St Louis, 1975. Vol. III, 1977, pp. 1085-1094.
  • Hommes, H J Van Eikema. "Some remarks on the relation between law and logic." Logical Analysis 14 (1971) 165-169.
  • Hommes, H J Van Eikema. "The functions of law and the role of legal principles." Philosophia Reformata 39 (1974) 77-81.
  • Hommes, H J Van Eikema. "The limits to the legal competence of the state." Philosophia Reformata 41 (1976) 9-23.
  • Hommes, H J Van Eikema. "The material idea of the law-state." Philosophia Reformata 43 (1978) 49-60.
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