Hammurabi

Hammurabi’s regime, built on conquest and plunder, hardly provides a model for peace, democracy or human rights.

History may not give us all the answers—Hammurabi’s curses are unlikely to have much effect today—but these examples remind us that there are many possible versions of the rule of law.

This is at least better than the Code of Hammurabi, which considered the rape victim an adulteress.

He is just as likely to bring in Ben Bernanke and Ralph Nader as Hammurabi and Cato the Elder.

The Code of Hammurabi is one of the most important monuments in the history of the human race.

The famous code of Hammurabi is much older than the Mosaic law.

Town ruins of Hammurabi's age (Babylon): crude brick: plans always confused and haphazard.

What is easier than sitting before a comfortable steam radiator and reading an etymological dictionary or the Laws of Hammurabi?

The Jewish law had a provision like that in the law of Hammurabi, except that the limit was six years instead of three.