May 24, 2006
Hammurabi
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Hammurabi was the 6th king of Babylonia. He founded an empire that was eventually destroyed by raids from Asia Minor. His famous code of laws, found at Susa in 1902, addresses such issues as business and family relations, labor, private property, and personal injuries, and is generally humanitarian. One severe feature, however, is the retributive nature of punishment, which follows "an eye for an eye" literally. What important legal principle used today derives from this code?
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