12 Milestones in Legal History By MarshallMa98 Period: 2000 BCE to 700 Antiquity 1754 BCE The Code of Hammurabi 100 BCE Emergence of the Legal Profession in Rome 529 The Corpus Juris Civilis Period: 1453 to 1945 Modern Period Period: 1600 to 1800 The Age of Enlightenment 1689 Locke & Two Treatises of Government 1708 Modern Statutory Law 1748 Montesquieu & The Spirit of the Law 1787 The U.S. Constitution 1908 The Federal Bureau of Investigation 1923 First Police Crime Lab Established 1945 The Nuremberg Principles Period: 1945 to 2020 Contemporary History 1954 Brown v. Board of Education 1966 Miranda v. Arizona
