- Collection:
- Scholarly Works
- Title:
- Comparative Law: Law, Reality and Society (2nd edition)
- Creator:
- Watson, Alan
- Date of Original:
- 2008-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
University of Georgia--Faculty - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- books
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Publication citation
Watson, Alan. 2008. Comparative law: law, reality and society. Lake Mary, FL: Vandeplas Pub. ISBN 9781600420603 Table of contents
Law in books, law and reality: a comparative law perspective -- Law out of context -- Moses and the Ten Commandments -- Two gospel vignettes: Jesus and the Samaritan woman; Jesus and the adulteress -- Private law, religion, and international law in early Rome -- 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 -- Chancellor Kent's use of foreign law -- Foreign legal thinking -- The culture of judges -- The law of delict and quasi delict in the French code civil -- The justice of the U.S. constitution -- Epilogue: Julius Caesar: descendant of a slave?
Comparative and Foreign Law -- Law and Society - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/fac_artchop/606
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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