You may want to
start by thinking about whether you have any special background or
knowledge that suggests a legal system you might want to study.
Are you fluent in a foreign language? Do you have a relevant
undergraduate background—anthropology, say, or history? Is there
some society that you are particularly interested in or
knowledgeable about?
If none of that works, the following suggestions may help:
Possible Legal Systems and starting places for information
Australian Aboriginal Law
Adat—traditional Malay/Indonesian law
Pashtun Law
Early Indian Law
Ottoman Law: State, Society,
and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective
by Haim Gerber
Anglo-Saxon
Law
Germanic
Law
Welsh Law: Charles-Edward The Welsh Law
The Law of Criminals
Shia Law
Nuer Law, Evans-Pritchard
Early Chinese Law Codes:
T'ang:
Wallace Johnson, The
T'ang code.
Ch'in: A.F.P.
Hulsewé, Remnants of Ch'in Law: An annotated translation of the
Ch'in legal and administrative rules of the 3rd century B.C.,
diwscovered in Yun-meng Prefecture, Hu-pei Province, in 1975.
Han:
A.F.P.
Hulsewé, Remnants of Han Law, Vol. I.
One place
to look for stuff: Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 71, 1995-6,
"Ancient Rights and Wrongs Symposium on Ancient Law, Economics and
Society."