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.

[edit] Legal systems

[edit] Law by source

[edit] Branches of law

[edit] Substantive law and adjectival law

[edit] Criminal law

[edit] Civil law

[edit] Administrative law

[edit] Religious Law

[edit] Laws by scope

[edit] History

[edit] Philosophy of Law

[edit] Basic legal concepts

[edit] People who have influenced law

[edit] Lists

Sources of law

Legislatures

Courts

Prisons

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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