“harold joseph berman”

The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal sy... More

This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines ke... More

As is well known, the state of Utah was created under trying circumstances. Settled by religious refugees, the territory was at first governed by a people who resented the intrusion of the United States and who recognized no wall dividing church and state. This is the legacy that the contemporary st... More

Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German Reformation and the seventeenth-century English R... More

Offering a new and integrative approach to the study of formal models in the social and behavioral sciences, this book presents a theory forcing the specification of information currently neglected by game theory and offers a unified solution, or equilibrium, concept. Unifying the representation of ... More

A study of the age which saw the crystallization of the party-system and representative government... More

"A very important book by a man whose work has been central to discussions of comparative linguistics throughout the second half of the 20th century."--Carol Justus, University of Texas, AustinThe basic thesis of this book is that the well known and extensively studied Indo-European family of langua... More