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The Gift of Science : Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition / Roger Berkowitz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674018730
  • 9780674020795
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344/.095 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
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
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 -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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