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Little Book of Big Ideas: Law distils the essential history of two millennia of legal thought and practice, through the lives of 50 great legal minds. The great trial lawyers, judges, codifiers, and legal philosophers are all introduced, with 10 legal principles that underpin modern systems of justice.p pThis little book includes succinct biographies on the greatest legal minds including Moses, Magna Carta, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson and Cicero, and reveals the outstanding contribution that each has made to this pervasive discipline.p pFrom Hammurabi and the legal codes of ancient Babylon, to the ground-breaking legal theorists of the Enlightenment, and contemporary debate about the origins and extent of human rights, the Little Book of Big Ideas: Law charts the developments of the legal systems that rule our lives today.p