Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law

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A reprint of the 1974 edition (Scottish Academic Press). Highly controversial then and now, Watson's argument is that a society's laws do not usually develop from within, but are borrowed from other societies. A new (12 pp.) afterword by Watson places the study in the context of recent scholarship,

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Comparative and International Law Studies Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction European and International Contract Law

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Published in: Stanford Law Review

Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 1208-1208

DOI: 10.2307/1228215

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