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Legal Systems Very Different from Ours

By: David Friedman, Peter Leeson, David Skarbek
Narrated by: David Friedman
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This book looks at 13 different legal systems, ranging from Imperial China to modern Amish: how they worked, what problems they faced, how they dealt with them. Some chapters deal with a single legal system, others with topics relevant to several, such as problems with law based on divine revelation or how systems work in which law enforcement is private and decentralized.

The book’s underlying assumption is that all human societies face the same problems, deal with them in an interesting variety of different ways, and are all the work of grown-ups and hence should all be taken seriously. It ends with a chapter on features of past legal systems that a modern system might want to borrow.

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©2019 David Director Friedman (P)2020 David Director Friedman
Law Political Science Politics & Government Social justice Middle Ages Middle East
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