• A Prequel to Law and Revolution: A Long Lost Manuscript of Harold J. Berman Comes to Light

    Author(s):
    Christopher J. Manzer, John Witte, Jr. (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Subject(s):
    Law, History, Rhetoric, Ritual
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Harold J. Berman, Law and Language, Legal Positivism, Law and Religion, Interdisciplinary Legal Studies, Legal Anthropology, Legal history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/r3tq-jx28
    Abstract:
    The late Harold Berman was a pioneering scholar of Soviet law, legal history, jurisprudence, and law and religion; he is best known today for his monumental Law and Revolution series on the Western legal tradition. In the early 1960s, Berman wrote a short book, Law and Language, which was only recently discovered and published in 2013. In this early text, he adumbrated many of the main themes of his later work, including Law and Revolution. He also anticipated a good deal of the interdisciplinary and comparative methodology that we take for granted today, even though it was rare in the intense legal positivist era during which he was writing. This Article contextualizes Berman’s Law and Language within the development of his own legal thought and in the evolution of interdisciplinary legal studies. It focuses particularly on the themes of law and religion, law and history, and law and communication that dominated Berman’s writing until his death in 2007.
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    Published
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    4 years ago
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