ABSTRACT
Nevertheless, the relationship between ‘legal science’ and science itself – that is to say science in the natural sciences sense – is an ambiguous one. Much depends upon exactly what is meant by ‘legal science’. When understood in terms of a history of codification in Europe, there is no escaping some relationship. The institutional system, as we shall see later, in Chapter 4, acted as the structural foundation for all the codes. However, scientia iuris can also be understood as a notion quite independent of the Roman classification scheme. Instead of deriving its force from what might be called the internal (Roman) law point of view, legal science can take the natural
sciences as its starting point. Accordingly, just as legal philosophy looks to the tradition of philosophy, so legal science can look to zoology, physics and mathematics for its central paradigms.
