Download or read book Failures of the Legal Imagination written by Alan Watson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1988-04-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.