Atlas
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This trail follows statutes and acts across six centuries and five continents that expanded, restricted or later corrected who counted as equal before the law, from an early guarantee against arbitrary detention through...
20 stops
This path follows the record of written law from its earliest known reform in Sumer through the codes of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt, the Hebrew Bible and classical Greece to the first codification of Roman law. Each...
12 stops
From Montesquieu's 1748 case for keeping legislative and executive power apart, through the proportionality test a Canadian drug case built, to the international tribunal that told China its nine-dash line has no lawful...
10 stops
Law began as a written code enforced by a ruler's own authority, and only slowly became a subject of independent scholarship. This trail follows ten jurists across roughly four thousand years, from Hammurabi's...
10 stops
Eight stops across four legal traditions asking the same underlying question, how does the state respond to a minority or new religious movement, and returning four different answers: Taiwan's courts vindicating a...
8 stops
Sharia, Halakha and canon law are three of the world great religious legal families. This atlas holds them strictly as comparative-law machinery: which states actually apply each one, and how differently four real...
8 stops
Regulation and doctrine, read past the common-law cases that dominate most casebooks: an Islamic financial standard-setter, a Chinese data-protection statute, an Australian statute that wrote a High Court decision into...
7 stops
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