Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science

Ⅰ From Insight to Science: Leibniz’s Scientific Foundation of Justice

1 Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law

2 The Force of Law: Will

3 Leibniz’s Systema Iuris

Ⅱ The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz

4 From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality

5 The Rule of Law: The Crown Prince Lectures and the Grounding of Legality in Order and Security

Ⅲ From Science to Technique: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the BGB, and the Self-Overcoming of Legal Science

6 From Reason to History: Savigny’s System and the Rise of Social Legal Science

7 The Burgerliches Gesetzbuch （BGB） of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice

Conclusion

Note on Sources

Notes

Index