Outline of law
Overview of and topical guide to law
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction 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 that 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 – the 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 – an academic discipline that studies the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
- 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 the law is interpreted and applied in societies
Legal systems
Law by source
Municipal law
Primary authority
- Constitutions
- Basic laws
- Primary and secondary legislation
- Executive orders
- Precedent (Judicial decisions / stare decisis)
Secondary authority
- Legal treatise
- Restatements of the Law (United States)
International law
Branches of law
International law
Public law
- Constitutional law
- Administrative law
- Criminal law
- Tax law (revenue law)
Private law
Commercial law
Procedural law
Laws by jurisdictional scope
History
Basic legal concepts
Lists
Sources of law
Municipal case law
Municipal legislative instruments
International and supranational law
International and supranational case law
Other
Legal institutions and jurists
National legal systems
Courts
Legal professionals and jurists
Legal topics and reference
External links
- 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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