The Evolution of Law

by Alan Watson

Overview

One of the world's foremost scholars of Roman and comparative law here describes the nature of legal traditions and develops a general and coherent view of legal change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801839405
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1989
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Alan Watson is the Ernest P. Rogers Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia Law School. He is the author of Failures of the Legal Imagination, Slave Law in the Americas, International Law in Archaic Rome, and Roman Slave Law, the last two available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. The Roman System of Contracts and the Legal Tradition
Chapter 2. Customary Law
Chapter 3. The Cause of the Reception of Roman Law
Chapter 4. Evolution and Revolution
Chapter 5. Conclusions
Appendix: About the Illustrations
Notes
Glossary
Index

Editorial Reviews

"[A] pioneering work... It bids fair to open up a new direction in legal history... This book maintains the scholarly standards of Watson's previous works, and it is certainly one of his most provocative offerings."

American Journal of Philology