Civilization / Society, Economy & Law

Codified Law

Written laws such as the Code of Hammurabi (~1754 BC) make rules public and checkable for everyone.

Ur-Nammu of Ur (~2100 BC) already had laws written down. Hammurabi of Babylon had around 282 legal provisions carved on a stele. The Twelve Tables (Rome, ~450 BC) and later Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis (529-534 AD) shaped today's civil law.