Funny, I did some time in law school and legal history (in particular Roman law) was always my favourite part. I've had years of Latin and Greek education and c

Funny, I did some time in law school and legal history (in particular Roman law) was always my favourite part. I've had years of Latin and Greek education and come from a Latin country, so that helps. But the quasi-universality of Roman legal principles is itself very recent, and didn't start to emerge before the late 1700's, very much in the spirit of statecraft launched by the Westphalian era.