Eucken was appointed professor of political economy at Freiburg in 1927 where he met Husserl, encounteredphenomenology, and met a number of the jurists who were eventually so important in the theory of law in twentieth century Germany, who themselves came into contact with phenomenology and who tried to re-elaborate a theory of law that tried to avoid both the constraints of nineteenth century historicism and rcclsen's formalist, axiomatic, statist conception.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 625