TY - BOOK ID - 380494 TI - The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition PY - 2005 SN - 0674018737 0674020790 9780674020795 9780674018730 PB - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law KW - Leibniz, von, Gottfried W. KW - Science and law KW - Jurisprudence KW - Law KW - History. KW - Philosophy. KW - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, KW - Law and science KW - Literary history KW - G. G. L. L., KW - L., G. G. L., KW - Leibnitius, Godefridus Guilielmus, KW - Leĭbnit︠s︡, G. KW - Leĭbnit︠s︡, Gotfrid Vilʹgelʹm, KW - Leibnitz, Godefroy-Guillaume, KW - Leibniz, G. W., KW - Leibniz, Georg Wilhelm, KW - Leibnizius, Godefridus Guilielmus, KW - Leibnizius, Gotfridus Guilelmus, KW - Lithuanus, Georgius Ulicovius, KW - Ulicovius Lithuanus, Georgius, KW - לייבניץ, גוטפריד וילהם, KW - לייבניץ, גוטפריד וילהלם, KW - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, KW - Von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, KW - Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm KW - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm KW - History KW - Philosophy KW - Science KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:380494 AB - 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. ER -