The Evolution of Western Private Law

expanded Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6484-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

In The Evolution of Western Private Law, renowned legal scholar Alan Watson presents a comprehensive overview of legal change in the Western world. Watson explains why and how such change occurs in mature systems, in underdeveloped systems, and when legal systems of different levels of sophistication and from different societal roots—such as those of the Romans and of Germanic tribes—come into contact.

Originally intended as a second edition of the author's widely acclaimed The Evolution of Law (1985), this expanded edition has been completely restructured with more than double the number of examples. The result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Römische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Antike Kriegsführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Legislation
2. Jurists
3. Judges
4. Custom
5. Legislation and Jurists: French Delit
6. Jurists, Judges, Custom, Legislation: Water Rights
7. Legal Transplants I: The Cause of the Reception of Roman Law
8. Legal Transplants 2: Other Reception of Roman Law
9. The Case of English Common law
10. Humanism, The Law of Reason, Codification
11. Conclusions
Notes
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Watson, Alan
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.

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.