Law (disambiguation)

Law is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological or in a philosophical sense.

Law or laws may also refer to:

Government

• Rule of law, the principle that restricts governmental authority
• Items associated with the practice of law are often called "legal," such as "legal paper size;" see Paper size

Music

• LAW, a seventies Funk / Rock band from Ohio
• "Law", a song by David Bowie from his album Earthling
• Laws, a Brazilian American rapper from Florida, real name Michael Maldonado

People

• Acie Law IV (born 1985), American basketball player
• Alvin Law (born 1960), Canadian motivational speaker
• Andrew Bonar Law (1858–1923), British prime minister
• Bernard Francis Law (born 1931), former Archbishop of Boston
• Brian Law (born 1970), Welsh international footballer
• Evander M. Law (1836–1920), general in the Confederate States Army
• Denis Law (born 1940), Scottish football player
• John Law, name of a number of people
• Jude Law (born 1972), English actor
• Peter Law (1948–2006), Welsh politician
• Peter Law (actor) (born 1948), English actor and father of Jude Law
• Phyllida Law (born 1932), Scottish actress
• Rick Law (born 1969), American illustrator
• Robert D. Law (1944–1969), United States Medal of Honor recipient
• Ty Law (born 1974), American football cornerback
• William Law (1686–1761), British politician
• William Law (Latter Day Saints) (1809–1892), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Brian Laws (born 1961) English football player and manager
• George Malcolm Laws (born 1919), an American folklorist also known as G. Malcolm Laws
• John Laws (born 1935), an Australian broadcaster
• Stuart Laws (born 1950), a British racing driver
• Law is a common transliteration for the Chinese surname 羅 (see Luo (surname))

Philosophy and religion

• Principle, an abstract object sometimes known as a law
  • Adage, a principle in the form of a memorable saying
  • See List of eponymous laws
• Religious law, the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs
• Natural law, an ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere
• Laws (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, dealing with the origin of normative laws and physical laws
• The Law, a book by French classical liberal Frédéric Bastiat

Science and mathematics

• Laws of science, established principles thought to be universal and invariable
  • Scientific law, or physical law, a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior
  • See List of scientific laws named after people
• "Law" in stochastic processes, a specific form of law in this subfield of mathematicals.
• There are several General Laws that apply to most of mathematics, such as the Distributive Law, the Commutative Law, the Associative Law, the Law of the Additive identity, the Law of the Multiplicative identity, the Law of the Additive inverse, and the Law of the Multiplicative inverse.

Note that there are some important forms of mathematics in which the Commutative Law does not apply, including matrix theory, quaternions, and non-Abelian group theory.

Sports

• Laredo Law, a defunct 2004 af2 arena football team in Laredo, Texas
• Regulation of sport, the rules and principles under which sport is conducted
  • Laws of the Game (association football), relating to association football, otherwise known as football or soccer.
  • Laws of cricket, relating to cricket
  • Laws of Australian football, relating to Australian football

Other

• Law (comics), fictional supervillain
• L.A. Law, American television show
• Law, South Lanarkshire, small town in Scotland
• Laws, California, in Inyo County
• Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, Scottish bus company also known as Law of Shotts
• One axis of the alignment system used in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; see Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
• Law Rune, one of the Runes in the role-playing game RuneScape
• A Scots language word for a conical hill which rises incongruously from the surrounding landscape
• Law, character from the Tekken video game series
• M72 LAW Light Anti-Tank Weapon
• LAW 80 Light Anti-Tank Weapon

See also

• List of eponymous laws
• LAW (disambiguation)