Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, Second EditionIn Legal Transplants, one of the world's foremost authorities on legal history and comparative law puts forth a clear and concise statement of his controversial thesis on the way that law has developed throughout history. When it was first published in 1974, Legal Transplants sparked both praise and outrage. Alan Watson's argument challenges the long prevailing notion that a close connection exists between the law and the society in which it operates.