The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition

by Roger Berkowitz

Book Overview

The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for loopholes to help Fortune 500 corporations legally evade their taxes and spoil the environment. In a world governed by the rule of law, justice, it seems, is a chimera, an abstraction, and thus a distraction from the real world struggle over political interest. Ought we, then, to abandon talk about abstract...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823231917
• ISBN13: 9780823231911
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"