Table of Contents

Scientia Iuris and Ius Naturae: The Jurisprudence of the Holy Roman Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.- French Legal Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries: To The Limits of the Theory of Law.- Conceptual Aspects of Legal Enlightenment in Europe.- The Many Faces of the Codification of Law in Modern Continental Europe.- German Legal Science: The Crisis of Natural Law Theory, the Historicisms, and “Conceptual Jurisprudence”.- Science of Administration and Administrative Law.- Constitutionalism.- From Jhering to Radbruch: On the Logic of Traditional Legal Concepts to the Social Theories of Law to the Renewal of Legal Idealism.- The (Non)-Legal Thought of Niccolò Machiavelli.- The Legal Philosophy of Hugo Grotius.- The Legal Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.- Consent and Natural Law in Locke’s Philosophy.- The Legal Theory of Pufendorf.- Leibniz on Justice as “The Charity of Wise”.- Malebranche and “Cartesianized Augustinianism”.- Montesquieu and Vico.- Hume and Smith.- Voltaire’s Skeptical Jurisprudence: Contra Leibnizian Optimism in Candide.- The Legal Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.- The Legal Philosophy of Kant.- The Legal Philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel.- Karl Marx’s Philosophy of Law.- The Legal Thought of J. S. Mill.- Nietzsche as a Philosopher of Law.- Neo-Kantian Epilogue: Rawls and Habermas.