Failures of the Legal Imagination
Published on 29. April 1988
Book
Hardback
174 pages
978-0-8122-8089-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this masterful choreography of legal philosophy, legal history, and comparative law, Alan Watson draws from ancient Roman, English, and French law to assess how lawmakers fail to envision ways to provide society with laws geared toward precise political or social goals.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8122-8089-0 (9780812280890)
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Alan Watson
Failures of the Legal Imagination
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12/2016
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Person
Alan Watson is Earnest P. Rogers Professor of Law, University of Georgia. He is the author of many books of legal history, including Rome of the Twelve Tables; Roman Slave Law; and Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.