Outline of law
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to law:
Law – is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which a society is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws, and includes any and all legal systems.
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[edit] Nature of law
Law can be described as all of the following:
- Academic discipline – body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
- one of the humanities – academic discipline that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
- Field of science – widely-recognized category of specialized expertise within science, and typically embodies its own terminology and nomenclature. Such a field will usually be represented by one or more scientific journals, where peer reviewed research is published. There are many sociology-related scientific journals.
- Social science – field of academic scholarship that explores aspects of human society.
- System – set of elements (often called 'components' instead) and relationships which are different from relationships of the set or its elements to other elements or sets.
- part of the legal system –
[edit] Legal systems
[edit] Law by source
- Sources of law
- Custom
- Precedent of past judicial decisions (stare decisis)
- Statutory law
- Constitutional law
- Sources of international law
- Customary international law
- Treaty
- Juristic writings (such as legal treatises)
[edit] Branches of law
[edit] Substantive law and adjectival law
[edit] Criminal law
- Criminal law (penal law)
- Criminal procedure
[edit] Civil law
[edit] Administrative law
[edit] Religious Law
[edit] Laws by scope
- International law
- Federal law (national law)
- State law
- Local ordinance
[edit] History
Main article: History of law
[edit] Philosophy of Law
[edit] Basic legal concepts
[edit] People who have influenced law
[edit] Lists
Sources of law
Legislatures
Courts
- List of constitutional courts
- List of special tribunals and courts
- List of courts in England and Wales
- List of High Courts of India
Prisons
- List of business law topics
- Outline of criminal justice
- List of topics in logic
- List of international public law topics
- List of international trade topics
- Arms control treaties and conventions
- Environmental agreements
- Historic list of members of the Privy Council
- List of current members of the Privy Council
- List of Judicial Committee of the Privy Council cases
- List of Ayatollahs
- List of individuals executed by the federal government of the United States
- List of international declarations
- List of jurists
- List of Judges of the High Court of Australia
- List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada
- List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
- List of Latin phrases
- List of 100 largest law firms globally
- Lists of law schools
- List of members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
- List of members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- List of United Kingdom House of Lords cases
- List of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary
- List of real estate topics
- List of riots
- List of Senators of the College of Justice
- List of software patents
- List of Supreme Court of Canada cases
- List of top United States patent recipients
- List of Uniform Acts (United States)
- List of United States federal legislation
- List of United States Supreme Court cases
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Legal news and information network for attorneys and other legal professionals
- Encyclopaedic project of academic initiative in Jurispedia
- Legal articles, news, and interactive maps
- WorldLII - World Legal Information Institute
- CommonLII - Commonwealth Legal Information Institute
- AsianLII - Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)
- AustLII - Australasian Legal Information Institute
- BaiLII - British and Irish Legal Information Institute
- CanLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute
- NZLII - New Zealand Legal Information Institute
- PacLII - Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
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