Watson, Alan, 1933-2018

LC control no.	n 50021867
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Watson, Alan, 1933-2018 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Watson, Alan, 1933- Watson, W. A. J. (William Alexander Jardine), 1933-2018 Watson, William Alexander Jardine, 1933-2018
Birth date	1933-10-27
Death date	2018-11-07
Place of birth	Hamilton (Scotland)
Place of death	Athens (Ga.)
Field of activity	Law
Affiliation	University of Oxford University of Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania. Law School University of Georgia
Profession or occupation	Law teachers
Special note	Pseudonym not found on published works: Sandy Jardine.
Found in	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")
Associated language	eng