Table of contents for Comparative law : law, reality and society / Alan Watson.

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Chapter 1
Law in Books, Law and Reality: a Comparative Law Perspective  1
Chapter 2
Moses and the Ten Commandments                           15
Chapter 3
Two Gospel Vignettes: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman;
Jesus and the Adulteress                                 33
Chapter 4
Artificiality, Reality and Roman Contract Law            61
Chapter 5
Justinian's Corpus luris Civilis: Oddities of Legal Development;
and Human Civilization                                   79
Chapter 6
Justinian's Natural Law and Its Spanish Legacy           89
Chapter 7
The Failure of Scottish Legal Education in the 17th Century, and the
American Civil War                                      101
Chapter 8
Lord Mansfield: Judicial Integrity or its Lack; Somerset's Case  127
Chapter 9
Foreign Legal Thinking                                  145
Chapter 10
The Culture of Judges                                 171
Chapter 11
The Law of Delict and Quasi Delict                    213
Chapter 12
Epilogue: Julius Caesar; Descendant of a Slave?       245