 Here he lamented the lack of geographical understanding in German legal studies.He said this contributed towards the general failure of the German populace to understand the nature of the First World War.He heralded Langhans-Ratzeburg as the chief representative of this new discipline, which he suggested would overcome the "thin, sterile air of legal scientific concepts and the fraudulent, political scientific, treaty-waving political posture of the so-called central powers".