In this masterful choreography of legal philosophy, legal history, and comparative law, Alan Watson draws from ancient Roman, English, and French law to assess how lawmakers fail to envision ways to provide society with laws geared toward precise political or social goals.

This is a conversational text that provides a comprehensive view of the law of American business failure.

Introduction to and survey of the field of law and society. Includes interdisciplinary perspectives on law from sociology, criminology, cultural anthropology, political science, social psychology, and economics.

Challenges the distorted hegemonic accounts of Latin American law and reveals their geopolitical and economic consequences in the world today.