Hi, everyone. Welcome to Downsnow's History here.

It's a lot of discussion in the US and the centenary of the attack on Congress.

And here in the UK at the moment, as the group of people responsible for tearing down the statue

of the slave trader, Colston throwing in, throwing it in Bristol Harbor, were found not guilty,

by a jury. A lot of discussion around those two events about law, about the rule of law,

and how about how the rule of law is under pressure at the moment, from a bunch of Joker

politicians who don't want that to be a rule of law, but a rule of men, big difference folks.

And I'll start to be good to do a podcast on law on the rule of law, whether hectic it

come from, what is this thing that binds us, this invisible thing that binds us as tightly

as chains? Well, I don't like to scout, and ram-raig my local supermarket, and steal all

the food there. Anyway, Flannier Perri is the professor of the anthropology of law at the

centre for sociolegal studies at the University of Oxford. That's a hell of a title. So,

Professor Perri came on to talk to me about the law. How humans have used the law for

many of his fortifications, but how the law today really throughout the world is largely

modelled on the systems developed in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, than how,

because of colonial rule over those 200 years, those systems laws were exported nearly everywhere

on earth. And how they displaced ancient traditional systems of law in places like India,

that Vasco Dharga and my comments on where he reached there. We go back to the beginning.

Where did law begin? And we also talk about some of the parallel legal systems that we can

still find in the world day. Super interesting. So enjoy. That's the law. That's the law.

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