Failures of the Legal Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 9. December 2016
174 pages
978-1-5128-2157-4 (ISBN)
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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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Alan Watson
Failures of the Legal Imagination
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04/1988
University of Pennsylvania Press
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- ONE: The Law of Delict and Quasi-Delict in the French Code Civil
- TWO: Legal Evolution and Legislation
- THREE: Medical Malpractice Law in Ancient Rome
- FOUR: Opportunism and Pragmatism in the Law
- FIVE: Natural Law and English Legal Positivism
- SIX: Some Legal Phenomena
- Index
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