Harold J Berman

Biographic Data

ID3596027
NAMEHarold J Berman
GIVEN NAMESHarold J
FAMILY NAMEBerman
SIGNATUREBERMAN H J
AFFILIATIONSHarvard University Press
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1946
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX3

  • World Law

    Open AccessHarold J BermanARTICLETheology Today2006

    By is meant the common features of the legal systems of the world, and especially the body of customary law that is gradually being created by the people of the world in their transnational interrelationships. Included are many aspects of world economic law, such as bankers' letters of credit, negotiable instruments, and documentary trade terms. Included also inter alia are world sports law enforced by the Court of Arbitration of Sport in Lausann…

  • Law and Revolution, II

    Laurent Mayali, Harold J BermanARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History2005

    Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition Get access Berman Harold J.. Law and Revolution, II: The Impact of the Protestant Reformations on the Western Legal Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. 522 pp. $55.00 (cloth). $22.95 (paper). Laurent Mayali Laurent Mayali University of California at Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…

  • Faith and Law in a Multicultural World (James Luther Adams Lecture, Emory University, February 6, 2002)

    Harold J BermanARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion2002

  • Faith and Order

    David S Caudill, Harold J BermanARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion2001

    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 key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of religion in the Soviet and post-Soviet state

  • Max Weber as legal historian

    Open AccessHarold J Berman, Charles J ReidCHAPTERThe Cambridge companion to Weber2000

    Max Weber was initially trained in both law and history and he drew extensively on examples from legal history in constructing his later sociological works. Yet he was not, properly speaking, a legal historian. In fact, as we shall show, the superimposition upon legal history of his sociological categories of "ideal types" of legal authority resulted in serious distortions at the same time that it led to some important insights. His sharp separat…

  • The Cambridge Companion to Weber

    Open AccessStephen P Turner, Jon Elster et al.BOOKThe Cambridge companion to Weber2000

    Max Weber is indubitably one of the very greatest figures in the history of the social sciences, the source of seminal concepts like 'the Protestant Ethic', 'charisma' and the idea of historical processes of 'rationalization'. But, like his great forebears Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Weber's work always resists easy categorisation. Prominent as a founding father of sociology, Weber has been a major influence in the study of ancient history, religio…

  • The Spiritualization of Secular Law

    Harold J BermanARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion1999

    The dialectical opposition and interaction of the secular and the spiritual realms of life has deep roots in Christian thought. Jesus enjoined his challengers to “render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things that are God's” (Matt 22:21). To his disciples he said, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6), and “except a man be born of ... the Spirit, he cannot …

  • European Revolutions, 1492-1992

    Harold J Berman, Charles TillyARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1994

  • A Short History of Western Legal Theory

    Harold J Berman, Charles J Reid et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1993

    Journal Article A Short History of Western Legal Theory Get access Kelly J.M.A Short History of Western Legal Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xvii, 466 pp. $69.00. Harold J. Berman, Harold J. Berman Emory Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles J. Reid, Jr. Charles J. Reid, Jr. Emory Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Jou…

  • Law and Religion in the Development of a World Order

    Harold J BermanARTICLESociological Analysis1991

    Sociologists, including social theorists in the tradition of Max Weber and sociologists of the world system such as Niklas Luhmann, have not attached adequate significance to the roles played by law and by religion in the gradual emergence of a self-conscious world society in the latter part of the twentieth century. This is due partly to their excessively narrow concepts both of law and of religion, and their consequent failure to recognize the …

  • Political and Legal Control of Freedom of Expression in the Soviet Union

    Harold J BermanARTICLEThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review1988

  • Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800. J. M. Beattie

    Harold J BermanARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1987

  • Conscience and Law

    Harold J BermanARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion1987

    The Western legal tradition was formed in the great revolutionary upheaval of the late eleventh and early twelfth century, when the papacy established its independence from imperial and royal control and its political and legal supremacy over the clergy of Western Christendom. It was then that there was first developed the modern Western belief in the autonomy of law, its professional character, its integrity both as a system of institutions and …

  • The Soviet Advokatura

    Yuri I Luryi, Harold J BermanARTICLEThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review1987

  • The Religious Sources of General Contract Law

    Harold J BermanARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion1986

    In his dramatic, if not mystical, account of the birth, growth, senescence, and death of American contract law, and of its ultimate dissolution into the law of tort, Grant Gilmore certainly did not intend to join forces with those who would later seize on his story as evidence that both contract and tort, and, indeed, law all together, are merely artificial devices to support a hierarchical and hegemonic political structure and to facilitate econ…

  • Soviet Law in Theory and Practice

    Harold J Berman, Olympiad S Ioffe et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1985Cited by: 2

  • Law and Revolution

    Frederick H Russell, Harold J BermanARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1985

    Journal Article Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition Get access Berman Harold J., Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press, 1983. viii, 657 pp. $32.50. Frederick H. Russell Frederick H. Russell Rutgers-Newark Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 29, Issue 3, July 1…

  • Religious Foundations of Law in the West

    Harold J BermanARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion1983

    The fundamental changes that have taken place in our legal institutions during the past two generations are part of a transformation of the entire Western legal tradition, marked particularly by its disconnection from the religious foundations upon which it was built. For over eight hundred years, from the late eleventh to the early twentieth century, law in the West was supported by, and in many respects based on, religious beliefs, both Roman C…

  • Urban law—I

    Harold J BermanARTICLEHistory of European Ideas1983

  • The Presumption of Innocence

    Harold J BermanARTICLEThe American Journal of…1980

    Journal Article The Presumption of Innocence: Another Reply Get access Harold J. Berman Harold J. Berman *Ames Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 28, Issue 4, Autumn 1980, Pages 615–623, https://doi.org/10.2307/839708 Published: 01 October 1980

  • Impressions of Cuban Law

    Harold J Berman, Jr Van R WhitingARTICLEThe American Journal of…1980Cited by: 1

    Harold J. Berman, Van R. Whiting, Jr.; Impressions of Cuban Law, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 28, Issue 3, 1 July 1980, Pages 475–486, h

  • The Background of the Western Legal Tradition in the Folklaw of the Peoples of Europe

    Harold J BermanARTICLEThe University of Chicago Law…1978

  • The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness

    Harold J Berman, Richard A WortmanARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1977

    Journal Article The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness Get access Wortman Richard A., The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1976. xi, 345 pp. $20. Harold J. Berman Harold J. Berman James Barr Ames Professor of Law Harvard Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1977, Pages 342–3…

  • The Interaction of Law and Religion

    Harold J BermanARTICLEStanford Law Review1974Cited by: 3

  • Soviet Criminal Law and Procedure

    Harold J Berman, James W SpindlerARTICLEStanford Law Review1973