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.
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 scholarship and practice shapes how law is interpreted and applied in societies
Legal systems
Law by source
- Sources of law
- Custom (customary law)
- 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)
Branches of law
Substantive law and adjectival law
Criminal law
- Criminal law (penal law)
- Criminal procedure
Civil law
Administrative law
Religious Law
- Canon law
- Canon law (Catholic Church)
- Apostolic constitution
- Papal rescript
- Canon law (Catholic Church)
- Sharia law
Laws by scope
- International law
- Public international law
- Conflict of laws (private international law)
- Dualism (law)
- Legal pluralism
- Supranational law
- Law of the European Union
- Federal law (national law)
- State law
- Local ordinance
History
- Babylonian law
- Ancient Greek law
- Roman law
- Early Germanic law
Philosophy of Law
Basic legal concepts
People who have influenced law
- Hammurabi
- Napoleon
- Justinian
- Pietro Gasparri
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 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
- Other
- 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
- List of environmental law journals
- 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 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
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
- 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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