Evolution of Law

Alan Watson is the Ernest P. Rogers Professor and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia Law School. He is the author of Failures of the Legal Imagination, Slave Law in the Americas, International Law in Archaic Rome, and Roman Slave Law, the last two available from Johns Hopkins.

• PrefaceChapter 1. The Roman System of Contracts and the Legal TraditionChapter 2. Customary LawChapter 3. The Cause of the Reception of Roman LawChapter 4. Evolution and RevolutionChapter 5. Conclusions Appendix: About the IllustrationsNotesGlossaryIndex

[A] pioneering work... It bids fair to open up a new direction in legal history... This book maintains the scholarly standards of Watson's previous works, and it is certainly one of his most provocative offerings. American Journal of Philology