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The Measure of Civilization: A Brief History of Law in 30 Lectures
What problems did humanity create law to solve?
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00. Before the Law: Welcome to the Imperfect World of Rule of Law 01. Is the Rule of Law Still Possible in China? Law as the Measure of Civilization 02. Does Monopoly Drain Life from Everything? The Romans' Passion for Codifying Law 03. The Revival of Roman Law: Were Modern Universities Born from Teaching and Studying It? Does the Supreme People's Court Have the Authority to Remove China Judgments Online? | Extra 04. Why Did Mahsa Amini Die over a Headscarf? Canon Law, the Papal Revolution, and the Birth of the Church's “Rule-of-Law State” The Great Legislator: Defending the Rule of Law Is the Best Memorial to Professor Jiang Ping | Extra 05. A Lesson for Workers: When Serfs Were Dissatisfied, Did They Resist Their Lords? Secular Law and the Seeds of Rule of Law in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 06. What Did Napoleon Consider His Greatest Glory? Making the French Civil Code Readable to Ordinary Citizens 07. Can Making and Interpreting Codes Also Be Monopolized? The German Civil Code and the Civil-Law Tradition 08. Did Kings Offer “Fairer Trials” to Centralize Power? The Birth of Common Law 09. Why Is “the King beneath God and the Law”? Common Law as Ancestral Law 10. How Can Law Remedy “New” Forms of Wrongdoing? Common Law Absorbs Equity 11. Is a Common-Law Judgment like Writing a Serialized Novel? The Law Made by Judges and Lawyers 12. Why Did Britain Not Codify Its Law? Common Law's Struggle with Parliament and Its Self-Rescue 13. Why Did the Dubai and Abu Dhabi Financial Centers Adopt English Common Law? Differences and Convergence between Two Legal Traditions For Legal Professionals, the Zhu Ling Case Is the One They Least Want to Discuss | Listener Q&A How Can the Land Rights of Women Who Marry Out Be Protected? The Draft Rural Collective Economic Organizations Law | Extra 14. Britain's Hard-Won Constitutionalism: A Modern Institutional Civilization Seven Centuries in the Making 15. Why Does the U.S. Presidential Election Turn Combative So Early? Reflection and Choice in the U.S. Constitution Article 20: If the Law Is Not Wrong, Who Is? The Altered History of Reforming “Article 20” | Film Extra 16. Starting Early but Arriving Late: How France Struggled Its Way to a Semi-Presidential System 17. Germany's Basic Law: How Did a Temporary Constitution That Avoided the Name “Constitution” Triumph? 18. Is Japan Again Seeking to Amend Article 9 to Expand Its Military? “War and Peace” in the Japanese Constitution 19. What Kind of Constitution Does China Need? A Century from Provisional Compacts to Constitutions How Should We Understand the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling on Trump's Primary-Ballot Eligibility? | Extra 20. From War to Diplomacy to Law? The Peace of Westphalia and the Birth of International Law 21. Why Did the League of Nations, Created to Secure Peace, Fail? From the Concert of Europe to the Treaty of Versailles How Many Steps Does the United States Need to Ban TikTok? | Extra 22. After Eighty Years, Can the United Nations Deliver Security and Peace? | The UN Charter 23. Which Is Higher, Human Rights or Sovereignty? The “Brave New World” Created by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 24. Can Law Eliminate War? The Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law in Ukraine and Gaza Fear and Disappointment in Law Also Come from Not Knowing It | Problematic Youth Extra 25. International Law's Ultimate Question: Is It Law, and Is It International? Beginning with International Organizations 26. How Far Are We from an Animal Protection Law? The Graduate Applicant Rejected over Cat Abuse 27. How Can Law Meet the Challenge of Life Technology? Gene Editing and Brain-Computer Interfaces 28. Exposed in the Digital World: Can Law Still Protect Our Privacy? 29. Can a Sex Robot Be a Legal Partner? How Law Responds to Love and Sex between Humans and Robots 30. Would an AI Judge Be Fairer? Justice and Rule of Law in the Digital Age Will the 2024 U.S. Election Again Be Trump vs. Biden? Lin Yao × Zhai Zhiyong, Part I How Will Repeated Indictments Affect Trump in the 2024 U.S. Election? Lin Yao × Zhai Zhiyong, Part II 31. Conclusion: How Is the Rule of Law Possible in China? Secretly Filmed in a Hotel or Homestay: Who Can Be Held Accountable? | National Day Extra Does Marriage Promise Sexual Relations? Conflicting Understandings in Shanxi's Engagement-Rape Case | Extra Does the Trump Administration's Ban on Harvard Enrolling International Students Foreshadow a U.S. Constitutional Crisis? | Extra How Did America Come to This? Expanding Presidential Power, Social Division, and Belated Checks | Current-Affairs Extra President, Defendant, and Constitution: Maduro's Two Identities in a U.S. Courtroom | Extra The Coming Single Society: How Can You Avoid Having No One to Sign Medical Forms? | Voluntary Guardianship Extra If the Supreme Court Rules Tariffs Illegal, Can Trump Keep Imposing Them? | Extra Trump Unrestrained? How Did the U.S. President's War Powers Escape Control? | Extra