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Indonesia as a rule of law country, of course, is very very interested in these legal theories so that they can be applied in efforts to foster and establish or develop national law that cannot be removed from the living cultural values and soul of the Indonesian nation, the purpose of this research is to find out the development of legal theory which is the central point of substance quality in each phase of the development of legal theory and which legal theory is influential and suitable for adoption for the development of national law in the future. This type of research, this type of research, this paper is normative research in which the method or steps used to obtain data originate from the data collection used in this research is to collect data documents, as well as legal literature books. Some of these data documents include; article-articles or news from the mass media related to the legal phenomena that are the subject of discussion. The results of the analysis obtained are classical legal theory, showing that the quality of substance which is the central point of legal theory in each phase of its development, basically pivots on one thing, namely "human relations and law". This means that the more the basis of a theory shifts to the "regulation" factor, the legal theory responds to law as a closed formal legalistic unit. Conversely, the more it shifts to the "human" factor, the more open the theory of law is and touches the social mosaic of humanity.