In the Fall 2011 semester David Friedman was a visiting professor at George Mason University. That happened to be my first semester there as a Ph.D. student, so I lucked out in a big way. He ended up doing a seminar series, and I got in on some of that also. He mainly talked about a project he’s been working on for a few years now, a course he’s been teaching called “Legal Systems Very Different from Ours”, which he is slowly turning into a book. You can find the draft here. I think it’s a fascinating topic, and he’s one of the few people who could pull it off extremely well.
I recommend reading all the sections. I saw this in the section on Imperial Chinese law:
Where the offense did not seem to fit any category in the code, the court felt free to find the defendant…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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