The Gift of Science : Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition / Roger Berkowitz.
Berkowitz, Roger, author.
2009
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Title
The Gift of Science : Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition / Roger Berkowitz.
Author
Berkowitz, Roger, author.
ISBN
9780674020795
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020795
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2005
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (234 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674020795 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
344/.095
Summary
Moving from the scientific revolution to the nineteenth-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. The "gift" of science, however, proved bittersweet. Instead of strengthening the bond between law and justice, the subordination of law to science transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends.
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Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface
Note on Terminology
Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science
I. From Insight to Science: Leibniz's Scientific Foundation of Justice
CHAPTER 1. Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law
CHAPTER 2. The Force of Law: Will
CHAPTER 3. Leibniz's Systema Iuris
II .The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz
CHAPTER 4. From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality
CHAPTER 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
CHAPTER 6. From Reason to History: Savigny's System and the Rise of Social Legal Science
CHAPTER 7. The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice
Conclusion
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Notes
Index

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