The main institutions of law in industrialised countries are independent courts, representative parliaments, an accountable executive, the military and police, bureaucratic organisation, the legal pro ...
Main article: Philosophy of law"But what, after all, is a law? When I say that the object of laws is always general, I mean that law considers subjects en masse and actions in the abstract, and never ...
Main article: Legal historyKing Hammurabi is revealed the code of laws by the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash, also revered as the god of justice.The history of law connects closely to the development of ...
Main article: Legal systems of the worldIn general, legal systems can be split between civil law and common law systems. The term "civil law" referring to a legal system should not be confused with "c ...
All legal systems deal with the same basic issues, but jurisdictions categorise and identify its legal subjects in different ways. A common distinction is that between "public law" (a term related clo ...
Whether it is possible or desirable to define lawThere have been many attempts to produce "a universally acceptable definition of law". By 1972, no such definition had been produced. McCoubrey and Whi ...
