The Law's Beginnings

CONTENTS......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 8
INCIPIENT LAW. ASPECTS OF LEGAL PHILOSOPHY......Page 12
EARLY LAW IN INDIA......Page 22
JUSTICE AND WRITTEN LAWS IN THE FORMATION OF THE POLIS......Page 34
AN ASPECT OF ARCHAIC ROMAN LAW: Auctoritas tutoris......Page 56
AN EMERGING LEGAL SYSTEM IN AN EMBRYONIC STATE. THE CASE OF EARLY MEDIEVAL IRELAND......Page 70
THE Lex Frisionum. THE GENESIS OF A LEGALIZED LIFE......Page 88
THE EARLIEST LAW OF RUSSIA AND ITS SOURCES......Page 104
GLIMPSES OF INDO-EUROPEAN LAW......Page 126
BEFORE HAMMURABI OF BABYLON. LAW AND THE LAWS IN EARLY MESOPOTAMIA......Page 148
ASPECTS OF LAW AND ORDER IN EARLY STATE SOCIETIES......Page 172
A NEW BEGINNING OF LAW AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. OBSERVATIONS BY A LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGIST......Page 192
LAW’S BEGINNING......Page 232
LAW’S BEGINNINGS. SOME CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS......Page 266
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 292
F......Page 294
Q......Page 295
Z......Page 296