Comparative law : law, reality and society /

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Main Author: Watson, Alan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lake Mary, FL : Vandeplas Pub., c2007
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Table of Contents:
  • Law in books, law and reality: a comparative law perspective
  • Moses and the Ten Commandments
  • Two gospel vignettes: Jesus and the Samaritan woman; Jesus and the adulteress
  • 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
  • Foreign legal thinking
  • The culture of judges
  • The law of delict and quasi delict
  • Epilogue: Julius Caesar: descendant of a slave?