Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History ― Essays in Honour of Alan Watson

A collection of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. Chapters provide new insight on areas including translation and interpretation, actor and defendant in negatoria servitutis , oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law, basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy, bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing, legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies, and legal change and Scots private law. Of interest to scholars and students of Roman law, ancient Jewish and Chinese law, legal history, and comparative law. Cairns specializes in the history of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh. Robinson specializes in Roman administrative and criminal law at Glasgow University. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)