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Alan Watson is doctor honoris
causa of the University of Belgrade, and is Distinguished
Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the University of
Georgia School of Law. He is regarded as one of the world's foremost
authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and
religion.
A prolific scholar and master of more than a dozen
languages, Watson has nearly 150 books and articles to his credit, and
his books have been translated into countless dialects. Selected
scholarship includes the revolutionary books Legal Transplants: An
Approach to Comparative Law (1974) and Society and Legal Change (1977) as
well as The Evolution of Western Private Law (2000), Jesus and the Jews:
The Pharisaic Tradition in John (1995), Ancient Law and Modern
Understanding: At the Edges (1998), Sources of Law, Legal Change, and Ambiguity
(2d ed., 1998), Legal History and a Common Law for Europe (2001),
Authority of Law; and Law (2003), and The Shame of American Legal
Education (2005). His articles include "Law Out of Context" in
The Edinburgh Law Review (2000) and "Fox Hunting, Pheasant Shooting
and Comparative Law" in the American Journal of Comparative Law
(2000). Watson was honored by his international colleagues in 2000-01
when two collections of essays were presented in his honor: an American
volume, Lex et Romanitas:
Essays for Alan Watson, and the European volume, Critical Studies in
Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History.
Watson regularly serves as a distinguished lecturer at
leading universities in the United States and such countries as Italy, Holland,
Germany, France, Poland, South Africa, Israel and Serbia. He has attended
several sessions regarding the development of a common law for the EU, including one in Maastricht in 2000, and, at the
request of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), served as a member of the two-person U.S.
team helping to revise the draft civil code for the new Republic of
Armenia.
He is an honorary member of the Speculative Society
and serves as North American secretary of the Stair Society. He is an editorial
board member for the Juridical Review, Journal of Legal History, the
Journal of Comparative Law, the Belgrade Law Journal, IURA,
the European Lawyer Journal and the American Journal of Legal History.
A distinguished author, Watson has had several of his
books published in foreign languages, with more titles currently
undergoing translation. "Legal Transplants" is available in
Italian, Chinese and Serbian. "The Making of the Civil Law" has
been reprinted in Chinese.
Prof. Watson holds the following degrees:
- M.A., LL.B., University of
Glasgow
- B.A. (by decree), M.A.,
D.Phil., D.C.L., Oxford University
- LL.D., LL.D. honoris causa, University of Edinburgh
- LL.D. honoris
causa, University of Glasgow
- LL.D. honoris
causa, University of Pretoria
- Dr. Pol.
Science honoris causa, University of Palermo
- Dr. of the University, honoris causa, University of Belgrade
- LL.D. honoris
causa, University of Stockholm
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