TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watson,Alan
TI  - Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity
SN  - 9780812216394
AV  - K280 .W37 1998eb
U1  - 340 21
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Law reform
KW  - Law
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - LAW / Legal History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Human Rights
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; I. Sources of Law in Ancient Rome --; II. Europe before the Reception: The Example of Germany and Northern France --; III. Reception and Partial Reception: Italy, France, and Scotland --; IV.English Law in the Modern Age --; V. Legal Department and Confusion of Sources --; VI. Two-Tier Law --; Notes --; Afterword to the 1998 Edition --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Why is the law notoriously unclear, arcane, slow to change in the face of changing circumstances? In this sweeping comparative analysis of the lawmaking process from ancient Rome to the present day, Alan Watson argues that the answer has largely to do with the mixed ancestry of modern law, the confusion of sources-custom, legislation, scholarly writing, and judicial precedent-from which it derives
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