Bøger af Roger Berkowitz

Roger Berkowitz is Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights and the Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College. He is the author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition.

The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Moving from the scientific revolution to the rise of law and economics, this title tells the story of how lawyers invented a science of law to preserve law's claim to moral authority.

Moving from the scientific revolution to the 19th-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. He finds that the subordination of law to science actually transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends.