The Landscape of the Law

The Reith Lectures: Archive 1976-2012 by BBC

Jul 3, 201253:13Society & Culture

The historian Niall Ferguson delivers a lecture at Gresham College in the heart of legal London, addressing the relationship between the nature of law and economic success. He examines the rule of law in comparative term...

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