Law and Politics: A Cross‐cultural Encyclopedia

Arguing that law and politics are the two central features of all human cultures, with politics concerned about the ways in which power is exercised in all communities, and with law, in some respects a component of politics in that it also deals with the use of power, but embodying inviolable principles to discipline its untrammelled use, Strouthes makes a telling point about the universality of law:

Having established his intellectual and philosophical base, he investigates the behavioural and linguistic evidence that law is universal to all human societies, and then justifies learning about the legal and political systems of...