Historical research indicates that one of the reasons that made Iraq the cradle of civilizations is the invention of law, as all historical periods in Iraq were characterized by the existence of a unified system by virtue of codified law, where people knew their rights and demanded them in the courts before the judge in the presence of a lawyer in the event of any problem, and this topic did not know Any civilization in the world throughout history, except after the passage of more than a thousand years from its appearance in Iraq, where the regimes of various civilizations treated their people like slaves due to the lack of written law and reliance on the law of divine authorization or the like, whose provisions are formulated by the king according to the mood and need in each period
