Talk:Legal history

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 * How are decisions made in each civilization? Michimas (talk) 19:09, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
 * How are decisions made in each civilization?Michimas (talk) 19:10, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Last sentence of African section
I am no expert, but I find this very suspicious. It seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the section. Of the “major faiths that stayed” only Judaism has pre-colonial roots in Africa. I suspect that the three, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism would be relatively uncommon, the latter two especially outside of South Africa where there are at least Asian populations. Christianity and Islam, however, have pre-European colonial roots and are both common in Africa. Islamic law is influential in North Africa. So I can’t work out how this statement could be true or relevant on any reasonable interpretation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.22.212.186 (talk) 07:33, 8 December 2020 (UTC)

Major Overhaul Planned
This page is missing citations and has minimal information on the academic discipline of legal history. This is somewhat of a shortcoming given legal history has so many inter-disciplinary connections and a long history. I am planning on giving this page an overhaul, adding citations, a history of legal history, academic methodology, 'professional associations', 'criticism' etc. If anyone has any suggestions or wants to help please comment below; I am not sure whether we should have a separate page for 'legal histories from around the world' to deal with substantive historical content as opposed to the study of those histories.

Also, a lot of the questions below seem to relate either to legal anthropology or comparative legal history. Although this is the page for 'legal history', it is more accurately described as 'national legal history', a distinct academic movement to the other two pages I have linked. 3D Gaius (talk) 08:48, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

question
Do non-civilized human societies have law? L Hamm 03:41, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Question
Hello Fellow Wikipedians,

The page for Islamic Law is particularly short, and does not mention common terms for Islamic Law, Sharia(/ʃəˈriːə/, Arabic: شريعة‎ [ʃaˈriːʕah]), which means law in Arabic, or more redundantly the popular term, sharia law. Is there a reason for this exclusion, or was it simply overlooked in its description? WestleySturhan202202 (talk) 22:32, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Merge from Origin of law
Since the page origin of law covers substantially the same subject matter as legal history, I propose it should be merged here. -- Eastlaw  talk ⁄ contribs 04:34, 3 July 2009 (UTC)


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How laws relate?
How are all these different laws tied together? They are all divided into their own section and talked about in further detail however, all laws, as we know, come full circle and are connected in some form. Some laws have influenced the creation of new ones. I would like to gain a little more insight on what exactly these laws have in common or how they might have influenced each other or built off of one another. Dhocine (talk) 01:30, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * This was misplaced at top of Talk page. David notMD (talk) 02:33, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Addition of another section
The article is well, but I think you should tie all of these laws together because they all have some type of impact on one another. You could title the sub heading"In relation"O.Joness22 (talk) 16:30, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Question
I see that wikipedia has a law in africa page, however this page defining legal history does not touch on the legal history of countries within or even africa as a whole. Is this something this page should touch upon?

RCBekah01 (talk) 23:43, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Question
I see that there are no citations in the United States section. Is this something the page should add? Harnieri (talk) 02:28, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

Question
Are legal histories from around the world all connected or have some sort of connection?Drpencil9 (talk)
 * I am terribly sorry but talk page should not generally be used to discuss the article subject, per WP:NOTFORUM. JBchrch   talk  22:53, 26 September 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion
I feel as if the United States section is lacking slightly and could be expanded upon, possibly the addition of how law has changed through the country's history, and maybe flushing out the specifics of the differences between states slightly more. WikiCar03 (talk) 02:06, 7 September 2022 (UTC)WikiCar03 (talk) 02:07, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Suggestion
Regarding the organization of the article, I appreciate that it is divided into different regions or countries. However, I think it would perhaps make sense to group the legal history stemming from religions under one major header with different religions as subheadings. I think this section could come before or after the discussion of law in different regions, but just not in the middle where it is now.

ALR.kg23 (talk) 18:19, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

Is Jewish law not older than canon law?
The article claims canon law is the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West, but that seems incorrect. Peaux (talk) 14:39, 12 July 2023 (UTC)