The rule of laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world The rule of laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world , by Fernanda Pirie, New York, Basic Books, 2021, 570 pp, $35.00 US (hardcover), ISBN 978-1541617940

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Fernanda Pirie, Peace and Conflict in Ladakh. The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order (Brill, 2013); Fernanda Pirie and Judith Scheele, eds., Legalism. Community and Justice (OUP 2014); Fernanda Pirie, The Anthropology of Law (OUP, 2013).2 Josef Kohler, ‘Rechtsphilosophie und Universal-rechtsgeschichte’ in Franz von Holtzendorff and Josef Kohler (eds), Encyklopädie der Rechtswissenschaft im systematischer Bearbeitung (Leipzig-Bel min, 1904), vol 1, 1–69.3 Pirie, The Anthropology of Law (n 1) 16–21; Hebert Lionel Adolphus Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford, 1961); Brian Tamanaha, A General Jurisprudence of Law and Society (OUP, 2011).4 Jean Bottéro, Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning and the Gods, Z Bahrani and M Van De Mieroop (trans.) (University of Chicago Press, 1992).5 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton University Press, 2000).6 Frederic William Maitland, Why the History of English Law is Not Written (C J Clay & Sons, 1888).