The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985. Paperback. Near fine softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches) Includes notes, appendix, and an index. 168 pp.

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ISBN: 9780801839405

One of the world's foremost scholars of Roman and comparative law here describes the nature of legal traditions and develops a general and coherent view of legal change.

In four chapters, Alan Watson analyzes a set of particular legal events and facts, demonstrates their significance beyond their immediate context, and generalizes from them in order to construct a model of how law evolves. His masterful discussions of Roman contract law, customary law, and the reception of Roman law open out to a broader analysis of why and how law changes in mature or underdeveloped systems or when two opposing legal systems—even of vastly different levels of sophistication and from different cultural roots—come into influential contact.

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