Evolution of Law

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1989-09-26
Mått:137 x 213 x 13 mm
Vikt:255 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801839405

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Rättsvetenskap inom Juridik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

[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

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1. The Roman System of Contracts and the Legal TraditionChapter 2. Customary LawChapter 3. The Cause of the Reception of Roman LawChapter 4. Evolution and RevolutionChapter 5. Conclusions Appendix: About the IllustrationsNotesGlossaryIndex