Legal History

🇬🇧Edward Jenks

Law

1861–1939

"The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied"

🇬🇧Henry James Sumner Maine

Law

1822–1888

"Except the blind forces of Nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin."

"The drama of human rights, then, is that they emerged in the 1970s seemingly from nowhere. If the Soviet Union had generally lost credibility , human rights were not the immediate beneficiaries."