Karl Ludwig von Haller

Karl Ludwig von Haller
Born	1 August 1768 Bern
Died	20 May 1854 (1854-05-21) (aged 85) Solothurn
Nationality	Swiss
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Conservatism
Notable ideas	Patrimonialism, private law theory of the state, critique of Roman law

Karl Ludwig von Haller (1 August 1768 – 20 May 1854) was a Swiss jurist, statesman and political philosopher. He was the author of Restauration der Staatswissenschaft (Restoration of Political Science, 1816–1834), a book which gave its namesake to the Restoration period after the Congress of Vienna, and which Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel strongly criticized in §258 of Elements of the Philosophy of Right.

Von Haller's work, which was burnt during the Wartburg Festival, was a highly systematic defense both of the principles of dynastic legitimacy and monarchy founded on territorial lordship, as well as of pre-modern republics like those of the Swiss city-states, and the most consistent rejection of modern political ideas of the social contract, public law, and state sovereignty.