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The Challenges of Legal and Technological Changes
8.1 Legal Changes
Humanity throughout history has felt the need to organize, regulate, and limit the conduct of society through a set of rules called the law, which is constantly evolving.
Zaleucus was a Greek lawgiver, said to have devised the first written Greek law code, the Locrian Code. According to legends, he punished adultery with the forfeiture of sight. When his own son was condemned of this, he refused to exonerate him; instead, as the punishment of the law was to blind two eyes, he ordered to blind one of his son’s eyes and one of his own, for having raised a son who committed adultery.*
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zaleucus.
In the year 1754 BC, King Hammurabi of Babylon (1810–1750 ...
