Harold J. Berman’s scientific contributions

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Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition
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January 2004

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Harold J. Berman

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... These made explicit categories belonging to dogmatic frameworks that in the past had established practices informed by punitive legal and police perspectives, typical of ecclesiastical systems of legal-ecclesiastical control of society, present in societies of the Ancien Régime. They were thus opposed to the principles that underpin liberal legal-political systems, as described philosophically and historically by contemporary authors such as Foucault (1977) and Berman (1983Berman ( , 2003. In other words, defending 'practices' as the best because they are based on police experience, only means that they are reproducing old ways of repressing and maintaining monarchical order, which should be anachronistic, but are not (Kant de Lima 2010). ...

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‘Confusion of horizons’ with unwanted Others: Frustrations, results and effects of ethnographic practices in the realm of justice and public safety.
Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition
  • Citing Book
  • January 2004