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The first complete English translation from the Latin of Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Nova methodus discendae docendaeque Jurisprudentiae. lxxxvii, 218 pp. Preface by William E. Butler. Better known for his contributions to philosophy, metaphysics and mathematics as co-discoverer along with Isaac Newton of calculus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was also an attorney, diplomat, state official and judge of the Mainz court of appeals. The New Method of Learning and Teaching Jurisprudence is his prescription for a curriculum of study for lawyers and as such is an important indicator of the origins of legal education in the late renaissance year of 1667, when John Milton published Paradise Lost. Already translated into German and French, this is the first unabridged translation of the 1667 Frankfurt edition in a modern language, a new direct translation of the Latin text with notes by Carmelo Massimo de Iuliis (Department of Public and Private Economy Law, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano). The translation is enhanced by De Iuliis' introduction that offers a biographical sketch of Leibniz, an overview of the reception of his ideas, and a discussion of Leibniz' views on the philosophical concepts of logic and rhetoric as applied to the study of jurisprudence and a systematic reconstruction of legal systems. Published by Talbot Publishing, an imprint of the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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To say that Leibniz's 1667 treatise speaks relatively little to present-day concerns is emphatically not to denigrate editor and translator Carmelo Massimo de Iuliis;s impressive scholarly and linguistic feat of working with countless resources in at least six different languages (German, French, Italian, Latin, Greek and English) to produce the first complete English translation of the work, which should be valuable for Anglophone scholars of Leibniz and his times. the lengthy and thoroughly researched editor's introduction also likely helps the non-specialist reader understand the work's significance better than the work does itself. Scott Dewey, University of Minnesota Library (Unbound: A Review of Legal History and Rare Books Vol. 11 No. 1)

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GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ [1646-1716] wrote several important legal treatises. First published in 1677, Codex De Jure Suprematus dealt with issues of sovereignty, diplomacy and precedence among the states of the Holy Roman Empire. First published in 1693, the second volume in 1700, the Codex Juris Diplomaticus was a collection of annotated treaties and other source materials relating to the diplomatic history of the Guelph states, whose conflict with the Ghibbelline states was one of the major international issues of the time. CARMELO MASSIMO DE IULIIS (1960), teaches Company Law at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. In 2014 he edited and commented on the first Italian unabridged translation of the (1666) De casibus perplexis in iure (Perplexed Cases in Law), by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz for his doctoral dissertation. He is the author of several publications on Company and Banking law. John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State School of Law; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London; Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and a member of the Kazakhstan, Russian, and Ukrainian courts of international commercial arbitration.

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