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Radio 4,03 Jul 2012,42 mins

SeriesNiall Ferguson - The Rule of Law and Its Enemies

The Landscape of the Law

The Reith Lectures

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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 terms, asking how far the common law's claims to superiority over other systems are credible. Are we living through a time of creeping legal degeneration in the English-speaking world? Producer: Jane Beresford.

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