Since human beings, out of the need to survive, decided to live in small knit societies, the institution of the law began to take root. Unwritten norms that dictate the conduct and govern relationships between hunters and gatherers, wives, and husbands, priests and chieftain kept order and function among themselves and this allowed them to not just survive, but to prosper as well.
As nomadic tribes settled in river valleys and learned how to farm, cities began to form. These cities then became kingdoms. Then these kingdoms turned into empires. And empires break into what we know now as nation-states.
The story of our history is a familiar narrative and throughout the progress of civilization from tribe to nation, it is the consistent and persistent endeavour of human beings to define and establish the norms that bind communities and establish order that has pervaded, held constant throughout the human story.
As novices of the law, what you are about to encounter is not just words on paper but the very fabric that has held our civilization together, in its rise or fall.
It is the written fruit of that endless effort we have implored to establish order, define what is right and just and set up institutions that affect our daily lives.
You will learn an evolving language and the best way to start the study of the law is to see it first beyond words.
(Guide to Xavier Law 2013-2014)
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