The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition / Roger Stuart Berkowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berkowitz, Roger, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.

Science and law--History.

Science and law.

Jurisprudence--History.

Jurisprudence.

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Note on Sources

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674020795

0674020790

OCLC:

631583402