The Gift of Science

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The Gift of Science is written by Roger BERKOWITZ and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674020790 (ISBN 10) and 9780674020795 (ISBN 13).

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.