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The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition /

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 s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berkowitz, Roger, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.