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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
Canon law (Catholic Church)
- Canon (canon law)
- Custom (canon law)
- Decree (canon law)
- Dispensation (canon law)
- Interpretation (canon law)
- Obrogation
- Promulgation (canon law)
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
Law of persons
Criminal law
- Criminal law (penal law)
- Criminal procedure
Civil law
Administrative law
Laws by jurisdictional scope
- International law
- Federal law (national law)
- State law
- Local ordinance
History
Main article: History of law
Philosophy of Law
Basic legal concepts
People who have influenced law
Canon law
- Aquinas, St. Thomas (wrote influential Treatise on Law)
- Benedict XIV, Pope
- Gratian ("Father of Canon Law", founder of canon law jurisprudence; canon law as legal system)
- Gregory IX, Pope (promulgated the Decretales Gregorii IX)
- Gasparri, Pietro (codified the 1917 Code of Canon Law)
- John Paul II, Pope St. (promulgated the 1983 Code of Canon Law and the 1990 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches)
- Penyafort, Raymond of (patron of canon lawyers, codified Decretales Gregorii IX)
- Photios I of Constantinople (father of Oriental canon law)
Civil law
Common law
Other legal systems
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
- 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
- List of copyright case law
- 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 legal abbreviations
- List of Ayatollahs
- List of individuals executed by the federal government of the United States
- List of international declarations
- List of law journals
- 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 Latin legal terms
- List of 100 largest law firms globally
- Lists of law schools
- List of legal loopholes
- List of members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland
- List of members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada
- List of national legal systems
- 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
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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