Machiavelli said: “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.”
Examining the history of the law is an important way to understand our current human circumstance. In “The Law Book,” Michael H. Roffer, attorney, associate librarian, and professor of legal research at New York Law School, sifts through thousands of years of human history and presents the reader with a chronological collection of 250 milestones in the law.
