At the start, they talk how meaningful the idea of law is, how people thousands of years ago were searching for guidance in religions and rules of others civilizations.
Further they speak about findings archeologists made, which are about 5 and 3 thousand years old. They prove that even then there were rules that people had to follow and punishments to which otherwise were exposed.
Lecturer talks about selfish kings, like the whole Qin dynasty , who ignored their people, and what it lead to, for example: Magna
Carta in England. About how some nations took the laws of others, like Byzantium took Roman law.
Narrator ends the lecture by telling how the legal system of England and Wales was found.