Every society creates rules. But law — law is different. Law is the argument a community makes about power: who holds it, who is protected from it, and under what conditions it can be taken away. Lex maps 4,000 years of that argument, from the first clay tablet in Mesopotamia to the climate accords of the 21st century.

The atlas deliberately refuses the Eurocentric default. The Tang Code governed more people than any medieval European document. The Edicts of Ashoka proclaimed non-violence as state policy 2,200 years before the Geneva Conventions. Timbuktu's Islamic scholars produced sophisticated jurisprudence while Europe was burning witches. These traditions are here in full, not as footnotes.

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