The law expressed in its actual administration, not the law of law books.
Ancient Mesopotamia law regulated prices for goods and for criminal acts. Goods’ prices had to be more flexible than the prices for criminal acts. … Read the post regulating prices for goods and bads in ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Greek Locrian law declared that anyone proposing a new law do so with a noose around his neck. If the law didn’t pass, he would be hung. … Read the post Locrian law: some peculiar legal institutions
Ancient Mesopotamian laws combined general categorizes of parties with highly particularized actions and punishments. They mix statutory and case law. … Read the post mixed statutory and case law in ancient Mesopotamia
Requiring only young men to register for military conscription is an obvious instance of sexism in the U.S. today. Women today are an important part of the all-volunteer U.S. military. One out of every seven soldiers on active duty is a woman, and one out of every forty-three soldiers killed in the Iraq war has … Continue reading circumstantial entrenchment of public reasoning
The U.S. criminal justice system has collapsed as a matter of law and justice. Thinking about the perfect crime in these circumstances is just fun. … Read the post the perfect crime in real-world reasoning