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History of Law as a discipline
The Cambridge dictionary defines the Law as the system of rules of a particular country, group, or area of activity. It is a highly interdisciplinary discipline as it sets the rules of our societies and therefore has always existed. However, the first origins of law as an academic discipline may go back to the 5th century BC in Athens where citizens could be taught about related subjects like philosophy of law or argumentation. Around 161, Gaius, a Roman jurist, wrote the Institutes, a teaching book inspired by Roman law and Greek philosophy intended for future lawyers. There are different roots to law, for instance in England. The famous universities of Oxford and Cambridge followed the new system of adjudication made during the Norman Invasion, which became Common Law. It can be stated that law as an academic discipline exists since the creation of the concept itself of university. It was indeed taught in the University of Constantinople (founded in 425) considered the first university of the world. By the 16th century, European countries started to realize that law had to change alongside with History and every European country wrote its own version including Grotius's Introduction to Dutch Law (1619-1621) and later Napoleon's Civil Code (1804). Around the 18th century, when a wave of criticism was born against the legal education as law-based schools were created, some new ideas emerged. Some like Sir William Blackstone tried to make things evolute but not significant change was noticed before the 19th century. Law is now mostly taught following the US model providing an instruction as a profession and an academic discipline.