COMPARATIVE LAW: Law, Reality and Society Second Enlarged Edition
Watson, Alan
Item: 343660
ISBN: 978-1-60042-060-3
Pages: 316 pp.
Published: Lake Mary, Florida; Vandeplas Publishing; 2008. Reprinted in 2008.
This 2nd enlarged edition does not deal with conventional comparative law. Rules and structures of one system are not set out against those of another for contrast. Rather, rules particular or general, are examined to explain why they are as they are, and how they came to be. Chapters range from grand legislation (the Ten Commandments and Napoleon's code civil) to unrecognized law in action and daily life (Jesus and the Samaritan woman, the claim that Julius Caesar descended from a slave). Other chapters deal with judges' passivity in giving needlessly a judgment they claimed was unjust, to deciding against the judge's own theoretical and practical position (Somerset's Case). Likewise stressed is the difficulty of developing law fit for the society, and of understanding foreign legal thinking. Distributed by William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
