• Who owns what. 
• Who owes whom. 
• Who can marry whom. 
• What counts as a crime. 
• Who gets punished. 
• Who gets protected. 
• Who has authority. 
• Who counts as a person. 
• And what everybody is supposedly allowed to fucking do.

•  why humans invented law in the first place, 
• what problems laws were trying to solve, 
• whose interests they protected, 
• what happened when they failed—
• and how yesterday's perfectly reasonable rule became today's WTF.

Humans fucking made shit up.

Around here, we investigate

Law · authority · ownership · contracts · crime · punishment · justice · rights · governance · liability · personhood · regulation · historical law · institutional fuckery

And one question follows us everywhere:

What problem was this rule originally trying to solve?