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The Reith Lectures: Niall Ferguson on The Rule of Law and its Enemies: The Landscape Of Law

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Niall Ferguson on The Rule of Law and its Enemies

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Niall Ferguson asks if different systems of law are key to economic success.

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.

The Reith Lectures: Niall Ferguson on The Rule of Law and its Enemies

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Exploring the importance of man-made institutions in driving change around the world.

Economic historian Niall Ferguson explores the importance of man-made institutions in driving change around the world.

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