Introduction : the historian's task and sources
Reading and writing in Mesopotamia : the business of specialists?
Outline for a diplomatics of Mesopotamian documents
Old Babylonian law : gesture, speech, and writing
The transfer of property deeds and the constitution of family archives
The status of the Code of Hammurabi
The "restoration" edicts of the Babylonian kings and their application
Hammurabi and international law
Controlling cross-border traffic
A civilization with two faces.
Writing, law, and kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia by Dominique Charpin. ISBN 9780226101583. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.