What Hammurabi’s construction law teaches us

Leading construction mediation specialist Amanda Bucklow says easily understood rules covering ancient contractual relationships were models of clarity, simplicity and coherence, which has been lost to the modern industry. Modern understandings in areas like neuroscience point the way towards new contractual models, she suggests.

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