Record ID:
49886212 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50021867
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1933-10-27
  • Hamilton (Scotland)
Death:
  • 2018-11-07
  • Athens (Ga.)
Fields of activity:
  • Law
Occupations:
  • Law teachers
Used for:
  • Watson, Alan, 1933-
  • Watson, W. A. J. (William Alexander Jardine), 1933-2018
  • Watson, William Alexander Jardine, 1933-2018
Notes:
  • Pseudonym not found on published works: Sandy Jardine.
  • His Contract of mandate in Roman law, 1961.
  • His The evolution of law, 1985: CIP t.p. (Alan Watson) CIP data sheet (William Alexander Jardine Watson)
  • U.S. copyright file, Oct. 13, 2009 (Watson, Alan, 1933- )
  • Biog. resource center (contemp. authors), Oct. 13, 2009 (William Alexander Jardine Watson; b. Oct. 27, 1933, Hamilton, Scotland; Oxford University, D. Phil., 1961; University of Pennsylvania, professor of law, history, and classics, 1979- )
  • Scotsman WWW site, viewed Dec. 7, 2018 (Prof Alan Watson; William Alexander Jardine (Alan) Watson, legal scholar. Born: 27 October 1933 in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. Died: 7 November 2018 in Athens, Georgia, aged 85. At Oxford, Watson served as a lecturer at Wadham College from 1957-59, and then as a lecturer and, from 1960, Fellow of Oriel College. In 1965 he left Oxford to take up the Douglas Chair of Civil Law at Glasgow. He enjoyed his return to his alma mater; but in 1968, he crossed the Central Belt to become Professor of Civil Law at Edinburgh. moved to the School of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, initially as a visitor, in 1979. In 1989 he moved to the University of Georgia in Athens. He enjoyed sharing with his friends harsh reviews he wrote of his own books under the name "Sandy Jardine")
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)134275
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC Uk DLC IlMchBWI DLC VJTL