Comparative History
Law

This section contains reading suggestions or preliminary research memos on several early law traditions, and concludes with a brief sketch of our own working theory of the emergence of law in early societies.

• Antiquity in General
  • Six Ancient Law Codes Compared
• Egypt
• Sumeria
• Babylonia
  • Hammurabi
  • The Neo-Babylonian Code
• Assyria
• Hittites
  • The Hittite Code
• Israel
  • The Leviticus Code
• Greece
  • Gortyn
• Rome
  • The Twelve Tables
• India
  • Kautilya (Early Maurya; at another section of this site)
• China
  • Chinese Law Bibliography:
    • General
    • Early
    • Warring States
    • Empire
• Summary
  • A Theory of the Emergence of Law

 

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