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Sources of law, legal change, and ambiguity /

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 confu...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watson, Alan, 1933-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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