# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-watson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:15:27.629Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-watson"
name: "Alan Watson"
slug: "alan-watson"
description: "W. Alan J. Watson was a Scottish legal historian, regarded as a major authority as on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion. He is credited with coining the term \"legal transplants\"."
tagline: "Scottish legal historian (1933–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alan_watson_scholar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-10-27"
deathDate: "2018-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.29
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.007416
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watson"
    title: "Alan Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "ألان واتسون (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D9%87_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%AF%D9%87)"
    title: "الان واتسون (مؤرخ من المملكه المتحده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watson_(Rechtswissenschaftler)"
    title: "Alan Watson (Rechtswissenschaftler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watson_(legal_scholar)"
    title: "Alan Watson (legal scholar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watson"
    title: "Alan Watson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watson_(legal_scholar)"
    title: "Alan Watson (legal scholar)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Votson"
    title: "Alan Votson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4708004"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump