The Gift of Science
Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition
Published on 1. July 2009
234 pages
978-0-674-02079-5 (ISBN)
Description
Moving from the scientific revolution to the 19th-century rise of legal codes, Berkowitz tells the story of how lawyers and philosophers invented legal science to preserve law's claim to moral authority. He finds that the subordination of law to science actually transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02079-5 (9780674020795)
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10/2005
Harvard University Press
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Roger Berkowitz is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights at Bard College.
Content
Contents Preface Note on Terminology Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science From Insight to Science: Leibniz's Scientific Foundation of Justice 1 Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law 2 The Force of Law: Will 3 Leibniz's Systema Iuris II The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz 4 From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality 5 The Rule of Law: The Crown Prince Lectures and the Grounding of Legality in Order and Security III From Science to Technique: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the BGB, and the Self-Overcoming of Legal Science 6 From Reason to History: Savigny's System and the Rise of Social Legal Science 7 The Burgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice Conclusion Note on Sources Notes Index
