Sources of law, legal change, and ambiguity
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Sources of law, legal change, and ambiguity
University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998
[2nd ed.]
- : pbk
Available at 9 libraries
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Afterword to the 1998 ed.: p. [159]-161
Includes index
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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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