Comparative law : law, reality and society / by Alan Watson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Lake Mary, FL : Vandeplas Pub, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Edition: Third editionDescription: x, 322 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1600421067
- 9781600421068
- 340.2 23
- K559 .W38 2010
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Includes bibliographical references.
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?
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