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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Failures of the Legal Imagination
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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania PressYear
2016Print ISBN
9780812280890
9780812280890
eBook ISBN
9781512821574
Table of contents
- 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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