Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science 1
Ⅰ From Insight to Science: Leibniz’s Scientific Foundation of Justice 17
1 Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law 17
2 The Force of Law: Will 28
3 Leibniz’s Systema Iuris 54
Ⅱ The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz 71
4 From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality 71
5 The Rule of Law: The Crown Prince Lectures and the Grounding of Legality in Order and Security 87
Ⅲ From Science to Technique: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the BGB, and the Self-Overcoming of Legal Science 109
6 From Reason to History: Savigny’s System and the Rise of Social Legal Science 109
7 The Burgerliches Gesetzbuch （BGB） of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice 137
Conclusion 159
Note on Sources 163
Notes 169
Index 211