How was world’s earliest code of law, the ‘Laws of Urukagina’
In the city-state of Lagash in ancient Mesopotamia, when the arrogance of power was seizing even the last possessions of the poor, a visionary king named Urukagina emerged. He was not only a king but a revolutionary who, for the first time in human history, dared to establish a legal system to protect the rights of the people. His reforms, known in history as the ‘Laws of Urukagina’, marked the dawn of a new era in which the oppressed tasted freedom for the first time.
