Editing Code of Hammurabi (section)

==Reception outside Assyriology==
[[File:Hammurabi bas-relief in the U.S. House of Representatives chamber.jpg|thumb|alt=Photograph. Refer to caption|The relief portrait of Hammurabi in the [[U.S. Capitol]], by [[Thomas Hudson Jones]]]]

The Code is often referred to in legal scholarship, where its provisions are assumed to be laws, and the document is assumed to be a true code of laws. This is also true outside academia.{{sfnmp|1a1=United Nations|1y=1985|2a1=Schwartz|2y=1993|3a1=Mark|3y=2021|4a1=International Court of Justice|4y=2014|5a1=Rattini|5y=2019|6a1=Scharping|6y=2020|7a1=United Nations|7y=n.d.|8a1=Louvre|8y=n.d.|9a1=Hammurabi Human Rights Organization|9y=n.d.}}{{original research inline|date=March 2023}}

There is a relief portrait of Hammurabi over the doors to the [[United States Capitol#House Chamber|House Chamber]] of the [[U.S. Capitol]], along with portraits of 22 others "noted for their work in establishing the principles that underlie American law".{{sfnp|Architect of the Capitol|n.d.}} There are replicas of the Louvre stele in institutions around the world,{{citation needed|date=March 2023}} including the [[Headquarters of the United Nations]] in [[New York City]]{{sfnp|United Nations|n.d.}} and the [[Peace Palace]] in [[The Hague]] (seat of the [[International Court of Justice]]).{{sfnp|International Court of Justice|2014}}