Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative LawA reprint of the 1974 edition (Scottish Academic Press). Highly controversial then and now, Watson's argument is that a society's laws do not usually develop from within, but are borrowed from other societies. A new (12 pp.) afterword by Watson places the study in the context of recent scholarship, and offers some new reflections. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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COMPARATIVE LAW AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE | 1 |
THE PERILS OF COMPARATIVE LAW ΙΟ | 10 |
THE VIRTUES OF COMPARATIVE LAW | 16 |
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