The cuneiform writing in the evolution of the law. Research around the origins of the western law from the theory of society of Niklas Luhmann

Abstract

In this article we present the first results of the investigation “Me, Nomos,

Ius”, in which we seek to show a series of theoretical and methodological

questions around the study of western law, its origins and its evolution,

proposing a new transdisciplinary elaboration of the categories used. The

study of Mesopotamian law involves a re-conceptualization of the cuneiform

writing because it has been studied from disciplines that usually remain

isolated from each other. Here we propose the analysis of the cuneiform

writing, based on archeology, asiriology, history, philology, anthropology,

sociology and, above all, on the theory of socio-cultural evolution developed

by Niklas Luhmann in the framework of his theory of society