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The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Thom Brooks
Thom Brooks
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle
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The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition. By Roger Berkowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 234p. $49.95.

Roger Berkowitz's The Gift of Science is about the genesis and development of legal codification from its birth in Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's work to the German Civil Code of 1900. Leibniz's legal writings have been long neglected and this study is to be commended for bringing these writings back to our attention. Berkowitz charts the development of Leibniz's legal thought from his early to mature writings, illuminating Leibniz's surprisingly helpful reflections on the nature of law.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 143 - 144
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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