Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…Well, you know, they—as you know, they’re very strict as to guides. They want to promote the local economy, so you have to have a local guide. You can’t go in there and look like you’re being a tour guide without a license. You have 15 different organizations. So we went there early, the hour it opened, and we had the entire cathedral to ourselves. And so we went around and my brother’s holding this camera and I’m, you know, goofily pointing things out. And one of the guards noticed us, and, you know, we had to remove ourselves from the building. And so one of the things, I mean Justinian was a critical person in this too. He overhauled the Roman law. The legal system, the law… First of all, the Roman Empire in general, the East Roman Empire propagated it. They believed in the law. They held onto the law. And that’s many of the legal ideas we take for granted is grounded in everything developed in the Roman Empire and stabilizing the Roman Empire, so they carried that flag forward. Yeah. I mean, outside of Great Britain, all European legal systems are based on, ultimately based on the Code of Justinian, and then weirdly, because of the French connections, the State of Louisiana. Actually, if you want to be a lawyer, you have to—you have to pass a different bar in Louisiana than in everywhere else in the US.…

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