The Rule of Laws
A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

I assume it's a gigantic task for any author to sum up the whole legal system of any one country, but Pirie actually does a competent, interesting, readable explanation of the whole world's efforts to make decent laws for the past 4,000 years. She makes you think about what we've tried to do with la......more

This book is divided into three parts. The first, longest, and best part is a history of law and legal codes from before Hammurabi up to the present day. It jumps from location to location working its way forward in time showing what laws were being written, by whom, and in what historical context t......more

#theruleoflaws – Fernanda Pirie #Profilebooks #JonathanBall “Everywhere in the world laws organise, protect and restrict our lives. But where did they come from, what power do they have – and how might they have been different?” Our modern legal world can trace most of its roots back to the models devel......more

This is a rather ambitious survey of how three (3) legal models developed and how they were used. Most of the text focused on Western Law … arguably the predominant model in the modern world. Then we get legal systems developed around the Indus valley by legal specialist/scholars (Brahmin) as well a......more

Un libro muy bien escrito, una verdadera Historia universal del derecho que no se restringe a las sociedades de occidente. Aprendí muchísimo sobre las leyes y la justicia de lugares sobre los que nunca creí que llegaría a saber nada, la China imperial, la India hindú y musulmana, los califatos medie......more