![]() ![]() In particular, many of the more modern entries deal with the US’s treatment of important issues, such as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial (pictured), interracial marriage, the death penalty, stem cells and cloning, and the right to die. While the book covers events from across the globe, it undoubtedly has a US focus. ![]() The reader is given brief glimpses of key legal moments through commentary as well as colourful and well-selected images. ![]() Commencing in 2250 BC with the oldest written will, and ending in the fight for gay marriage in 2015, Roffer races through ‘250 Milestones in the History of Law’.Ĭontrary to most treatises on this subject, which are often dense and difficult to digest, this book does feel like a veritable time machine. Michael H Roffer, professor of legal research at New York Law School, invites the reader to delve into civilisation’s legal past. ![]()
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