Fernanda Pirie

Fernanda Pirie is a professor of the Anthropology of Law at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. Her most recent book, The Rule of Laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world, examines how humans have used laws to forge civilizations.

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What Ancient Laws Can Teach Us About Holding Autocrats to Account Today

The rule of law, democracy and human rights: these are the achievements of the modern nation state, or so we generally believe. Previous generations laid the ground with the Magna Carta, the U.S. Constitution, and...

By Fernanda Pirie
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