Outline of law

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.

Contents 1 Nature of law 2 Legal systems 3 Law by source 4 Branches of law 4.1 Substantive law and adjectival law 4.2 Criminal law 4.3 Civil law 4.4 Administrative law 4.5 Religious Law 4.6 Laws by scope 5 History 6 Philosophy of Law 7 Basic legal concepts 8 People who have influenced law 9 Lists 10 See also 11 External links

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 –

Legal systems

• List of country legal systems
  • Common law
  • Civil law (legal system)
  • Canon law
  • Sharia law

Law by source

• Sources of law
  • Custom
  • Precedent of past judicial decisions (stare decisis)
  • Statutory law
    • Statute
    • Black letter law
  • Constitutional law
    • Constitution
    • Constitutional court
  • Sources of international law
    • Customary international law
    • Treaty
    • Juristic writings (such as legal treatises)

Branches of law

Substantive law and adjectival law

• Substantive law
• Procedural law

Criminal law

• Criminal law (penal law)
• Criminal procedure

Civil law

• Civil law (common law)
• Common law
• Civil rights
• Family law
• Civil procedure

Administrative law

• Administrative law
• Code of Federal Regulations

Religious Law

• Canon law
  • Canon law (Catholic Church)
    • Apostolic constitution
    • Papal rescript
• Sharia law

Laws by scope

• International law
  • Public international law
  • Conflict of laws (private international law)
  • Supranational law
  • Law of the European Union
    • Treaties of the European Union
    • Regulation (European Union)
    • Directive (European Union)
    • European Union decision
    • European Union legislative procedure
• Federal law (national law)
• State law
• Local ordinance

History

• Babylonian law
• Ancient Greek law
• Roman law
• Early Germanic law

Philosophy of Law

• Natural law
• Jurisprudence

Basic legal concepts

• Treason

People who have influenced law

• Hammurabi
• Napoleon
• Justinian
• Pietro Gasparri

Lists

Sources of law

• Lists of legislation
• Lists of case law
• List of treaties

Legislatures

• List of legislatures by country

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 prisons
  • List of United Kingdom prisons
  • United States
    • List of U.S. federal prisons
    • List of U.S. state prisons
    • List of U.S. military 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 Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by court composition
  • List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States by seat
• 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 notable 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

See also

• Legal abuse

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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