Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science -- 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.