In Legal Transplants , one of the world\'s foremost authorities on Legal history and Comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his controversial thesis on the way that law has developed throughout history.
Rogers Chair at the University of Georgia School of Law, is regarded as one of the world\'s foremost authorities on Roman law, Comparative law, Legal history, and law and religion..
About the Author: Alan Watson, Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P.
For this edition, Watson has written a new afterword in which he places his original study in the context of more recent scholarship and offers some new reflections on Legal borrowings, law, and society.
The law cannot be used as a tool to understand society, Watson believes, without a careful consideration of Legal transplants.
The resulting picture of the law\'s surprising longevity and acceptance in foreign conditions carries important implications for Legal historians and sociologists.
Utilizing a wealth of primary sources, Watson illustrates his argument with examples ranging from the ancient Near East, ancient Rome, early modern Europe, Puritan New England, and modern New Zealand.
Instead, he contends, the laws of one society are primarily borrowed from other societies; therefore, most law operates in a society very different from the one for which it was originally created.
His main thesis is that a society\'s laws do not usually develop as a logical outgrowth of its own experience.
Alan Watson\'s argument challenges the long-prevailing notion that a close connection exists between the law and the society in which it operates.
When it was first published in 1974, Legal Transplants sparked both praise and outrage.
In Legal Transplants , one of the world\'s foremost authorities on Legal history and Comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his controversial thesis on the way that law has developed throughout history
