Author: Francis Lieber (1800-1872). German-American political scientist, b. Berlin, Germany. Born into a once-prosperous business family in Berlin, Franz (later Francis) Lieber witnessed Napoleon’s entry into Berlin in 1807 and was severely wounded during the Waterloo campaign in 1815. Lieber came to the United States in 1827 where he planned and edited Encyclopaedia Americana (13 vols., 1829-33).

Lieber’s work covers a wide range of fields. His contributions to penology, international law, and higher education have been acknowledged in the standard histories of those fields. The self-styled “publicist” (the word is one of his many coinages) won a series of academic appointments. From 1835-1856 he occupied the chair in history and political economy at South Carolina College, then the chair in history and political science at Columbia College from 1857-1865, and finally the chair in constitutional history and public law at Columbia Law School from 1865-1872.

He acquired a reputation as an authority on the problems of the day and on all questions touching political science. His first great work appeared in 1837, under the title “Manual of Political Ethics.” It was followed by “Legal and Political Hermeneutics” (1839), and “Civil Liberty and Self-Government” (1853). Of these three, which are considered his greatest works, the last named has become the most popular.

During the Civil War, he drafted the first code of military conduct for use in land warfare, which was later incorporated into the Hague and Geneva Conventions: “A Code for the Government of Armies” (1863), which in a revised form was issued by U.S. War Department as Instructions for the Government of Armies in the Field, General Orders No. 100.

Publisher: Legal Classics Library , Gryphon Editions (c. 1994) Facsimile of the 1839 Boston Edition.

Format/Condition: New leather volume is in fine condition. 241 pages; measures appox 7 ¾ x 5”

Description: Sets forth principles of interpretation and construction in law and politics

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