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[edit]Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
[edit]I choose this article because the history of law and its evolution seemed interesting to me. My first impression of the article was that it overviews multiple civilizations legal history in good detail. The article also had less information on certain civilizations.
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[edit]Most of the article is relevant to the topic of the article. It covers the history of law from the different kinds of laws such as Canon law and Islamic law, as well as other civilizations such as eastern and southeastern Asia, but i would say is still missing information on different parts of the world. A part that is off topic or a distraction, would be when the article mentions China joining the World Trade Organization in 2001. The World Trade Organization not being explained makes it hard to see how it’s relevant to legal history. I believe that their is missing information that can be added especially on the Ancient world and African law as they are relatively brief sections and could be examined more deeply. The article does underrepresent groups of people, such as women, and not only the evolution of their legal history, but their roles in developing it. Legal struggles are also not mentioned and focused on enough and the article would benefit from including the legal struggles that were present through history. The final thing I would say to add is the modern developments of legal rights and dive into digital law. This would make the article more up to date as will with the world becoming more digitized
The article is neutral when presenting the history of law, but it focuses more on European laws and has little focus on other parts of the world such as African and Islamic law. This can make it seem like the western part of the world's law history was much more important and influential than other parts of the world. The article does have some missing citations, but the citations they have do indeed work. There is a set of different authors that are cited, and most citations look to be accurate and unbiased. On the talk page there are questions on missing information in the article and why certain sections are shorter than others. There are also conversations about the comprehensiveness of the article to add to the lack of depth.