Bøker av 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.

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.