Topical Guide

This Topical Guide, with selected links and index entries, is intended to help the reader find an overview of law and Legal subjects . The guide is not intended to be comprehensive, but a good starting point. It is also recommended that the reader look up each topic and examine it in its context, in order to gain a better understanding of it.

• Civil society
• Rights
• Legal institutions
• Legislatures
• Judiciary
• Binding precedents
• Legal remedy

• Legal systems
• Legal systems introduction
• List of country legal systems
• Common law (including islamic law)
• Civil law legal system: general law of obligations (including contracts and tort), canon law, socialist law and other Legal subjects
• Canon law
• Sharia law

• Sources of law
• Custom
• Precedents of past judicial decisions (stare decisis)
• Jurisprudence
• Statutory law
• Statutes
• Black letter law
• Constitutional law. See also Constitution
• Constitutional court
• Sources of international law
• Customary International Law
• Treaties
• Legal Treatises
• Civil law jurisdictions

• Public law (constitutional law, Administrative law and criminal law)
• Private law (contract law, tort law and property law)
• Substantive law and adjectival law: Substantive law and Procedural law
• International law
• Constitutional law
• Criminal law: Criminal law (penal law) and Criminal procedure
• Civil law: Civil law ( Common law ), Common law, Civil rights, Family law, Civil procedures, Contract law, Property law, Trust law (in Estates Planning law) and Tort law (see Personal Injuries).
• Administrative law : Administrative law and Code of Federal Regulations
• Religious law : Canon law, Canon law (Catholic Church), Apostolic constitution, Papal rescript, Sharia law and Jewish law

• International law
• Public international law
• Conflict of laws ( Private International Law )
• Supranational law
• European Union law
• Federal law (U.S. law)
• State law
• Local law

• Legal history
• Babylonian law
• Ancient Greek law
• Roman law
• Early Germanic law
• U.S. history of law

• Natural law
• Jurisprudence

• Economic analysis of law
• Sociology of law

• Judges
• Lawyers
• Attorneys
• Advocates
• Officials
• Legal firms
• Legal firms practice management
• Legal firms marketing

• Legal concepts
• Legal terms
• Encyclopedia list of topics (in http://www.lawi.us/encyclopedia/list-of-topics/)
• Lists about law
• Requested entries

Author: international