TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Alan
TI  - Comparative law: law, reality and society 
SN  - 1600421067
AV  - K559 .W38 2010
U1  - 340.2 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Lake Mary, FL
PB  - Vandeplas Pub
KW  - Comparative law
KW  - Civil law
KW  - Reception
KW  - History
KW  - Common law
KW  - Roman law
N1  - 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?
ER  -