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Reflections on the Life and Times of Alan Watson
No full textThe author summarizes the career of Alan Watson, J.D. and University of Georgia Law School faculty member
Alan Watson (27.10.1933-07.11.2018)
No full textThe paper is a biograpghy of the distinguished professor of civil law, the Scottish man Alan Watson, who passed away in November 201
In Memoriam: Alan Watson
No full textThis message was sent to the alumni/alumnae and friends of the law school community announcing the passing of Alan Watson. Excerpt from the message:
Watson - one of the world\u27s foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion - passed away November 7, 2018, at the age of 85. Watson was a former Distinguished Research Professor and the holder of the Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the law school, where he taught for more than 20 years before retiring in 2012
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In Memoriam: Alan Watson
No full textThis message was sent to the alumni/alumnae and friends of the law school community announcing the passing of Alan Watson. Excerpt from the message:
Watson - one of the world\u27s foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion - passed away November 7, 2018, at the age of 85. Watson was a former Distinguished Research Professor and the holder of the Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the law school, where he taught for more than 20 years before retiring in 2012
In Memoriam: Alan Watson
No full textIn Memoriam: Alan Watson Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The School of Law regrets to announce the passing of Alan Watson, one of the world\u27s foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion, who passed away November 7, 2018, at the age of 85. Watson was a former Distinguished Research Professor and the holder of the Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the law school, where he taught for more than 20 years before retiring in 2012. Watson leaves behind a tremendous legacy, and he will be missed by many. Memorial service details will be forthcoming.
The scholarly life of Alan Watson
Alan Watson, one of the world\u27s foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion, passed away November 7, 2018, at the age of 85.
Watson was a former Distinguished Research Professor and the holder of the Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he taught for more than 20 years before retiring in 2012. His course list included: Comparative Law, Jurisprudence, Law in the Gospels and Western Legal Tradition.
A prolific scholar and master of more than one dozen languages, Watson has nearly 150 books and articles to his credit, and his books have been translated into countless dialects. Select 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). In addition, he served as the editor of The Digest of Justinian, 2d ed., overseeing its translation from the original Latin into English. Notably, he coined the term legal transplants which is now ubiquitous in legal literature.
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, Ancient Law, Comparative Law & Legal History.
Watson regularly served as a distinguished lecturer at leading universities in the United States and such countries as Italy, Holland, Germany, France, Poland, South Africa, Israel and Yugoslavia. He attended several sessions regarding the development of a common law for the European Union, 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.
Watson held seven degrees including a master\u27s and law degree from the University of Glasgow; a bachelor\u27s (by decree), master\u27s, doctor of philosophy and doctor of civil law degrees from Oxford University; and a doctor of laws degree from the University of Edinburgh. Additionally he was awarded six honorary degrees from the universities of Belgrade, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Palermo, Pretoria and Stockholm. Of special note, he taught at all of these universities in addition to the University of Pennsylvania, where he held the Nicolas F. Gallicchio Chair and was a University Professor. From 1968 to 1980, he was an honorary visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh, where he held the Chair of Civil Law. In 1997, he was elected a Visiting Honorary Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh, the highest honorary award bestowed by the Scottish faculty.
In 2012, Watson was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the American Society of Comparative Law. His colleagues at the University of Belgrade established the Alan Watson Foundation in his honor during 2005. This foundation is dedicated to developing international cooperation in the fields of comparative law and legal history.
Watson was also an honorary member of the Speculative Society and served as North American secretary of the Stair Society. He was an editorial board member for the Juridical Review, the 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.
He is survived by his wife, Camilla Emanuel Watson, a professor at the University of Georgia School of Law; children, Sarah Alexandra Campbell of Dacula, Georgia, Eleanor Ann McCulloch of Sydney, Australia, and David Jardine Watson of London, England; grandchildren, Wyatt Alexander Jardine Campbell, Emma Frances Jardine McCulloch and Rosie Piper Jardine McCulloch
Alan Watson delivers talk on David Daube
No full textProfessor Alan Watson will deliver a talk titled David Daube: A Personal Reminiscence at a meeting on Daube in Aberdeen, Scotland in February
Alan Watson delivers talk on David Daube
No full textProfessor Alan Watson will deliver a talk titled David Daube: A Personal Reminiscence at a meeting on Daube in Aberdeen, Scotland in February
The limiting power of autocorrelation tests in regression models with linear restrictions
No full textIt is well known that the Durbin-Watson and several other tests for first-order autocorrelation have limiting power of either zero or one in a linear regression model without an intercept, and tend to a constant lying strictly between these values when an intercept term is present. This paper considers the limiting power of these tests in models with restricted coefficients. Surprisingly, it is found that with linear restrictions on the coefficients, the limiting power can still drop to zero even with the inclusion of an intercept in the regression. It is also shown that for regressions with valid restrictions, these test statistics have algebraic forms equivalent to the corresponding statistics in the unrestricted model
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