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The law book: from Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court, 250 milestones in the history of law
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From the Book
c. 2550 BCE The oldest written will
c. 2100 BCE The code of Ur-Nammu
c. 1792 BCE The code of Hammurabi
c. 1300 BCE The ten commandments
621 BCE The draconian code
594 BCE The laws of Solon
c. 480 BCE The Gortyn code
450 BCE The twelve tables
399 BCE The trial of Socrates
c. 180 The Talmud
c. 250 The first law school
c. 250 The Brehon laws of Ireland
529 The Justinian code
561 The Irish copyright war
624 The Tang code
652 The Quran
1140 Canon law and the Decretum Gratiani
1166 The Assize of Claredon
c. 1200 Lex Mercatoria
1215 The Magna Carta
1275 The statutes of Westminster
c. 1350 The Star Chamber
1431 The trial of Joan of Arc
1481 Littleton's Tenures
1492 The Alhambra Decree
1527 Les Termes de la Ley
1601 An act for the relief of the poor
1616 Compulsory education laws
1625 On the Law of War and Peace
1629 The first blue laws
1648 Peace of Westphalia
1651 Leviathan
1670 Bushel's case
1679 The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
1685 The Black Code of Lois XIV
1692 The Salem Witchcraft Trials
1695 Lapse of the Licensing Act
1710 The Statute of Anne
1720 The Bubble Act
1735 The Trial of John Peter Zenger
1751 The Gin Act of 1751
1761 The Writs of Assistance Case
1765 Blackstone's Commentaries
1787 The U.S. Constitution
1789 The Judiciary Act of 1789
1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man
1790 America's first copyright law
1791 The Bill of Rights
1792 The Coinage Act of 1792
1798 The Triple Assessment (Income tax)
1803 The power of judicial review
1804 The Napoleonic Code
1805 The superiority of possession
1819 The supremacy of federal law
1821 The supremacy of federal courts
1824 Congressional regulation of commerce
1824 Administering native peoples
1839 The Amistad
1842 Recognition of labor unions
1843 The M'Naghten Rule
1848 The Field Code
1854 The measure of contract damages
1857 The Dred Scott decision
1861 The government printing office
1863 The Emancipation Proclamation
1864 The Geneva Convention
1865 The abolition of slavery
1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866
1868 Impeaching President Andrew Johnson
1868 The fourteenth amendment
1869 Prohibition of racial voter discrimination
1870 The law school revolution
1872 Law reporting and legal publishing
1873 Obscenity and the Comstock Act
Admission of women to the bar
1876 Legal aid societies
1878 The Berne Convention
1881 The insanity defense
1882 The Chinese Exclusion Act
1883 The civil rights cases
1886 Equal protection rights
1887 The Interstate Commerce Act
1888 The Brazilian Slave Emancipation Act
1890 The right to privacy
1890 The Sherman Antitrust Act
1893 New Zealand women's suffrage
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate but equal
1897 Corporate personhood and liability
1900 The German Civil Code
1901 The Cuban Constitution of 1901
1908 Women in factories
1909 Congressional power to tax income
1910 The White-Slave Traffic Act
1910 Workers' Compensation Law
1911 Busting the trusts
1911 The Triangle Shirtwaist fire
1913 The Federal Reserve Act
1914 The Exclusionary Rule
1914 The Clayton Antitrust Act
1915 The prohibition of illegal narcotics
1916 The Child Labor Act of 1916
1916 The expansion of consumer rights
1918 Prohibition
1919 Women's right to vote
1919 Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater
1920 New York State legalizes boxing
1921 The Chicago "Black Sox" Trial
1921 Censorship and the Hays Office
1921 The Emergency Quota Act
1925 The Scopes "Monkey" Trial
1926 The United States Code
1928 The danger zone in tort law
1928 Wiretaps
1933 Hitler's rise to power
1933 Wall Street regulation
1933 Censorship and Ulysses
1933 The repeal of prohibition
1934 The Federal Communications Act
1943 The Securities Change Act
1935 The National Labor Relations Act
1935 The Nuremberg Laws
The Social Security Act
1936 The Federal Register
1937 FDR and the court-packing plan
1937 Cameras in the courts
1938 Rule 23 and modern class action
1938 The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act
1939 Militias and the Right to Bear Arms
1940 The Alien Registration Act
1941 Strict products liability
1941 California's Anti-Okie statute
1942 Internment of Japanese Americans
1944 The G.I. Bill
1945 The Nuremberg Trials
1946
Rent control
1946 The protection of trademarks
1947 Colonialism and postwar independence
1948 General agreement on tariffs and trade
1948 The U.N. convention on genocide
1948 The Hollywood ten
1948 Universal declaration of human rights
1948 The Displaced Persons Act
Rejection of the Alien Registration Act
1951 The Rosenberg Trial
1951 The E.U. and the Treaty of Paris
1954 Brown v. Board of Education
1954 The Communist Control Act
1956 The Interstate Highway Act
1957 The limits on obscenity
1957 The Wolfenden Report and gay rights
1959 The European Court of human rights
1959 No man's land
1961 States and the exclusionary rule
1961 The Eichmann Trial
1963 The trial of Nelson Mandela
1963 The right to counsel in state court
1964 Limits on libel laws
1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965 The Voting Rights Act
1965 Conscientious objection
1965 The body and the right of privacy
1966 The Freedom of Information Act
1966 Miranda warnings
1967 Interracial marriage
1967 The Vietnam-Era draft laws
1969 No-fault divorce
1969 Free speech and threats of violence
1969 The fairness doctrine
1970 The National Environmental Policy Act
1970 The Count-Martial of William Calley Jr.
1970 Public health and cigarettes
1970 The RICO Act
1970 Baseball's reserve clause
1970 The Occupational Safety and Health Act
1970 The trial of Charles Manson
1971 Enfranchising eighteen-year-olds
1971 The Pentagon Papers
1971 Employment discrimination
1971 Court-ordered school busing
1972 Banning the death penalty
1972 The Equal Employment Opportunity Act
1972 The Equal Rights Amendment
1972 The trail of broken treaties
1973 The Endangered Species Act
1973 The first ban on gay marriage
1973 A new obscenity standard
1973 Roe v. Wade
1973 The War Powers Act of 1973
1974 Presidential subpoena compliance
1975 Attorneys' fee awards
1975 Restrictions on involuntary commitment
1975 Racism and U.N. Resolution 3379
1976 The Right to Die
1976 Health care and the duty to warn
1976 The Copyright Act of 1976
1976 The death penalty returns
1976 Palimony
1977 Attorney advertising
1978 Affirmative action
1978 The FCC and filthy words
1978 The Son of Sam Law
1978 The entrapment defense
1983 The McMartin molestation case
1984 First mandatory seat-belt law
1984 Administrative agency determinations
1984 Parody and the first amendment
1984 Time-shifting and fair use
1986 Peremptory challenges to jury selection
1986 The first evidentiary use of DNA
1987 Pregnancy discrimination
1987 Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination
1988 Surrogate motherhood
1988 Women's admission to private clubs
1989 The Fatwa against The Satanic verses
1989 Celebrity tax prosecution
1989 The first gay marriage laws
1990 The Americans with Disabilities Act
1990 The end of Apartheid
1991 Confirming Clarence Thomas
1991 The trial of Manuel Noriega
1992 Smoking litigation
1992 The Rio Conference
1993 Creation of the European Union
1994 The hot coffee case
1995 Stem cell and cloning legislation
1995 The O.J.
Simpson murder trial
1996 Limits on punitive damages
1996 South Africa's constitution
1996 Legalization of marijuana
1997 Presidential immunity
1997 The Communications Decency Act
1997 Physician-assisted suicide
1998 The line-item veto
1998 Indictment of Augusto Pinochet
1999 Copyright in the digital age
2000 Bush v. Gore
2000 The Microsoft monopoly
2001 Golf carts on the PGA Tour
Expanded copyrights
2001 The USA PATRIOT Act
2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
2002 The international criminal court
2005 Public purpose and eminent domain
2008 The legality of gun control
2010 Google books and fair use
2010 Wall Street reform
2012 The future of juvenile punishment
2012 The Affordable Care Act
2015 The legal fight for Gay Marriage.
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