|
 Law and society are closely related, though the relationship between the two is both complicated and understudied.
In a world of rapidly changing people, places and ideas, law is frequently taken out of context, often with surprising and unnecessary consequences.
As societies and their structures, religious doctrines and economies change, laws previously established often remain unchanged. Dominant nations frequently impose their own laws on weaker nations. Conquered nations, after regaining freedom, often keep their conquerors’ laws by default. Law is often misrepresented in literature, and legal scholars, citizens and business people alike ignore large portions of the legislation under which they live and work. Even the American system of legal education frequently proves itself irrelevant to a proper understanding of today’s laws.
In Law Out of Context UGA law professor Alan Watson studies examples from the ancient laws of Rome and Byzantium, laws within the Christian Gospels and policies of legal education in the modern United States to demonstrate the need for a new approach to both law and legal education.
|
|
