Capabilities in foreign languages, and knowledge of history permits us to trace unknown legal texts and traditions, and even at times to reconstruct traditional ways using comparative and deductive methods. This makes of utility to some tribal groups who are trying to recover the ways of their ancestors. Anyone wishing to operate overseas needs specialized knowledge of local laws, customs, sensibilities and conditions. Ignorance of these is hazardous. We here at the Center believe that a society is a complex adaptive system, featuring codes and agents, and that the legal impulse in humans is instinctive or biological.
Animals also have codes of behavior, even legal systems.
Birds are a good example. Though monogamous, they don't hesitate to flock. They flock to systematically exploit seeds and fruit and insects, and when sometimes when migrating, and mating. As it stands now, not even hunters know the rules governing why animal assemble and what they do when assembled. For humans, law is influenced by, and utilizes, language.