1/9: Thinking about legal systems

1/11: Gypsy Chapter. Gypsy law: pp. 27-61

1/16: Gypsy law: pp. 88-100

1/18: Gypsy Law: Chapter 7

1/23: Amish Chapter

1/25: Jewish Chapter

1/30: Reading Assignment from primary sources

2/1: Islamic Chapter, Studies in Islamic Law Chapter 2

2/6: Studies in Islamic Law Chapters 4-6.

2/8: Embedded and Polylegal Systems

2/13: God as Legislator

2/15: "Private Creation and Enforcement of Law"

{ Viking Age Iceland, Bloodtaking and Peacemaking, Njalsaga}

2/21: Somali Chapter

2/22:  Making Sense of English Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century

2/27: The Law in Classical Athens pp. 33-40, 53-66, 84-98, 161-164, 235-259

2/29: Athenian Chapter, {my outline of the Athens book}.

3/5-3/10: Spring break

3/12: Puzzles of Irish Law

Early Irish Law: Preface, Chapters 6-8.

3/14: Enforcement Mechanisms

3/19: The Incentive to Enforce

3/21: Law in Imperial China: Chapter 1, Chapter 2 parts 3,4, Chapter 3 parts 1-9, Chapter 4, Chapter 6

3/26: Essays on China's Legal Tradition (Chapter IV--on commercial law in Taiwan)
"From Imperial China to Cyberspace"
Your assigned cases from Law in Imperial China.

3/28:  China Chapter

4/2: The Invisible Hook, Chapters 1-3, 8. Drafts of papers due

4/4:  Hunter-Gatherers, Early Irish, Visigoths
Read the papers and be prepared to discuss, suggest problems or improvements, etc.

4/9: Maroons,  Mafia

4/11: Tokugawa Japan, Chinese Government,

4/16: Making Law

4/18: Canon Law Babylonian Law  Islamic International Law

4/23: Last Class. Guarding the Guardians.

{}: Optional readings