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Author Berkowitz, Roger, 1968-

Title The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition / Roger Stuart Berkowitz
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 214 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science -- CHAPTER 1. Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law -- CHAPTER 2. The Force of Law: Will -- CHAPTER 3. Leibniz's Systema Iuris -- 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 -- 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 -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index
Summary Annotation 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
SUBJECT Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716 fast
Subject Science and law -- History
Jurisprudence -- History.
Law -- Philosophy.
LAW -- Science & Technology.
LAW -- Legal History.
Jurisprudence
Law -- Philosophy
Science and law
Positief recht.
Wetenschap.
Rechtsfilosofie.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674020795
0674020790