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Article: Law and Revolution, vol. 2, The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2005
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LAW AND REVOLUTION II: THE IMPACT OF THE PROTESTANT REFORMATIONS ON THE WESTERN LEGAL TRADITION. By Harold J. Berman. (1) Harvard University Press. 2003. xii + 522 pp. $49.95.
What are the defining characteristics of the Western legal tradition? Where did it come from, how did evolve, and where is it heading? It is easy to fall into sprawling and superficial answers to these large questions, and even easier to neglect them altogether. Harold Berman has attempted to address them on a scale and with a precision that make this magisterial volume and its earlier companion a scholarly landmark. His first volume, Law and Revolution (3) (published in 1983 and still in ...