Comparative Law: Law, Reality and Society
Repository Citation
Alan Watson,
Comparative Law: Law, Reality and Society
(2007),
Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/605
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Publication citation
Watson, Alan. 2007. Comparative law: law, reality and society. Lake Mary, FL: Vandeplas Pub.
ISBN 9781600420184
Table of contents
Law in books, law and reality: a comparative law perspective -- Moses and the Ten Commandments -- Two gospel vignettes: Jesus and the Samaritan woman; Jesus and the adulteress -- Artificiality, reality and Roman contract law -- Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis: oddities of legal development; and human civilization -- Justinian's natural law and its Spanish legacy -- The failure of Scottish legal education in the 17th Century, and the American Civil War -- Lord Mansfield: judicial integrity or its lack; Somerset's case -- Foreign legal thinking -- The culture of judges -- The law of delict and quasi delict -- Epilogue: Julius Caesar: descendant of a slave?