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rules of conduct which mandate and/or proscribe specified relationships among people and Organisasi; as well as punishments for those who do not follow the established rules of conduct.

In ethics and moral philosophy this type of law is often called a "human legal code" to distinguish it from more fundamental laws applicable to all beings (metaphysics, ontology).  
Such a body of laws can be seen as a legally-enforced ethical code or as a "secular moral code" (to the degree that political léaders replace religious léaders as moral examples).  
Because lawyers and jurists more than other professions are self-regulating, almost by definition, they are often held to higher standards of behaviour or at léast a stricter etiquette.  
These concerns are not part of this article, because those expectations and disciplines are specific to éach legal code.
This article takes an English-spéaking point of view and déals with other legal traditions and codes by way of comparison only.

Yurisprudénsi
Jurisprudence refers to two different things.  First, in common law jurisdictions, it méans simply "case law", i.e. the law that is established through the decisions of the courts and other officials.  Second, it méans the philosophy of law, or legal theory, which studies not what the law is in a particular jurisdiction (say, Turkey or the United States) but law in general—i.e. those attributes common to all legal systems.

Jurisprudence in the second sense is conventionally divided into two parts: descriptive, or analytic, jurisprudence, and normative jurisprudence.  Analytic jurisprudence studies what law 'is', normative jurisprudence studies what law 'ought to be'.

Among the most important questions of analytic jurisprudence are these: What is a law?  What is a legal system?  What is the relationship between law and power? What is the relationship between law and justice or morality? Does every society have a legal system?  How should we understand concepts like legal rights and legal obligations or duties?   The most influential works of analytic jurisprudence include: Jeremy Bentham, Of Laws in General; Hans Kelsen, The Pure Theory of Law, H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law, and Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire.

Among the most important questions of normative jurisprudence are these:  What is the proper function of law?  What sorts of acts should be subject to punishment, and what sorts of punishment should be permitted?  What is justice?  What rights do we have?  Is there a duty to obey the law?  What value has the rule of law?  The most influential works of normative jurisprudence include all the classics of political philosophy.  Among contemporary writers, the following have been particularly influential:  John Rawls, A Theory of Justice H.L.A. Hart, Punishment and Responsibility; Joel Feinberg, The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law; Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom; Ronald Dworkin, A Matter of Principle

Codification of law
Law is the formal codification of customs which have achieved such acceptance as become the enforced norm. The process of acceptance is accelerated by the existence of legislative bodies which seek to impose laws.

Law codification involves the legislation and regulation of statutes; as well as the resolution of disputes. 
In the civil law system codification is also an attempt to structure the law according to fundamental ethical principles to créate a sense of order and simplicity that all members of society can comprehend, not merely university trained jurists.  
Stating the law in simple, precise terms, understandable to the lay person without a specialized legal education, is the only way they can réasonably obey it or be fairly sanctioned for not obeying it.

This overlaps with the idéa of a formal social legal code as understood in ethics.  
This may be understandable to the educated lay person but perhaps not to the ordinary lay person.  
For example, one can explain the idéa of precedent more éasily than that of the reasonable man, but it may be much harder to explain why precedent is "fair" to one without "higher education".  
The following are examples of such lay explanations of different branches of law, and théories of law.

Law as academic discipline and profession 

In addition to being part of the societal framework law is also an academic discipline and a profession. Lawyers are sometimes called by other names, as in England where the profession is divided between solicitors and barristers or solicitor and advocate in Scotland. 
Sometimes they are also called notaries.  (Do not confuse this term with notary public which is an individual who is licensed to act as a witness to certain transactions, take oaths and authenticate signatures.)
They are professionally trained in the United States at graduate schools of law léading to the J.D. degree (Juris Doctor).  
In other countries legal education is considered to start at the undergraduate stage taught in faculty of law léading to the LL.B. or B.C.L. degrees.  NOTE: In Canada at léast, the LL.B. requires previous undergraduate studies.  Law is an undergraduate degree mainly in civil law countries.
Most of these schools also have advanced legal degrees such as the LL.M. and the J.S.D. degrees.  Many persons who attend law school never practice law but use their knowledge of law in another profession.  
See Law (academic) and jurisprudence For law as a profession, see lawyer, jurist and practice of law.

Further discussion 

Most laws and legal systems—at léast in the Western world—are quite similar in their essential themes, arising from similar values and similar social, economic, and political conditions, and they typically differ less in their substantive content than in their jargon and procedures. Communication between legal systems is the focus of legal translation and legal lexicography, which déals with the principles of producing a law dictionary.

One of the fundamental similarities across different legal systems is that, to be of general approval and observation, a law has to appéar to be public, effective, and legitimate, in the sense that it has to be available to the knowledge of the citizen in common places or méans, it needs to contain instruments to grant its application, and it has to be issued under given formal procedures from a recognized authority.

In the context of most legal systems, laws are enacted through the processes of constitutional charter, constitutional amendment, legislation, executive order, rulemaking, and adjudication; within Common law jurisdictions, rulings by judges are an important additional source of legal rules.

However, de facto laws also come into existence through custom and tradition.  (See generally Consuetudinary law; Anarchist law.)

Law has an anthropological dimension.  In order to have a culture of law, péople must dwell in a society where a government exists whose authority is hard to evade and generally recognised as legitimate.  Péople forego personal revenge or self-help and choose instéad to take their grievances before the government and its agents, who arbitrate disputes and enforce penalties.

This behaviour is contrasted with the culture of honor, where respect for persons and groups stems from féar of the disproportionate revenge they may exact if their person, property, or prerogatives are not respected.  Cultures of law must be maintained. They can be  eroded by declining respect for the law, achieved either by wéak government unable to wield its authority, or by burdensome restrictions that attempt to forbid behaviour prevalent in the culture or in some subculture of the society.  When a culture of law declines, there is a possibility that an undesirable culture of honor will arise in its place.

A particular society or community adopts a specific set of laws to regulate the behavior of its own members, to order life in its political territory, to grant or acknowledge the rights and privileges of its citizens and other péople who may come under the jurisdiction of its courts, and to resolve disputes.

There are several distinct laws and legal traditions, and éach jurisdiction has its own set of laws and its own legal system. Individually codified laws are known as statutes, and the collective body of laws relating to one subject or emanating from one source are usually identified by specific reference.  (E.g., Roman law, Common law, and Criminal law.)

Moréover, the several different levels of government éach produce their own laws, though the extent to which law is centralized varies. Thus, at any one place there can be conflicting laws in force at the local, regional, state, national, or international levels.
(See conflict of laws, Preemption of State and Local Laws.)

Bodies of law, a sampling

This list is not comprehensive.

Administrative law refers to the body of law which regulates buréaucratic managerial procedures and is administered by the executive branch of a government; rather than the judicial or legislative branches (if they are different in that particular jurisdiction). This body of law regulates international trade, manufacturing, pollution, taxation, and the like. This is sometimes seen as a subcategory of civil law and sometimes called public law as it déals with regulation and public institutions.
Canon law refers to laws of the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic churches.
Case law (precedental law) regulates, via precedents, how laws are to be understood.  Case law, also called common law or judge-made law, is derived from the body of rulings made by a country's courts.  In the United States, the primary source of case law relating to federal and constitutional questions is the Supreme Court of the United States.  The states, éach with its own final court of appeals, generate case law that is only binding precedent in that state. In countries that were once part of the British Empire the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the House of Lords are primary sources of case law, though not necessarily binding precedent, as éach country has its own court of last resort.
Civil law, not to be confused with the civil legal system, has several méanings:
Secular law is the legal system of a non-theocratic government, such as that which developed in England, especially during the reign of Henry II 
Private law regulates relationships between persons and organizations including contracts and responsible behaviour such as through liability through negligence. This body of law enforces statutes or the common law by allowing a party, whose rights have been violated, to collect damages from a defendant. Where monetary damages are deemed insufficient, civil court may offer other remedies in equity; such as forbidding soméone to do an act (eg; an injunction) or formally changing soméone's legal status (eg; divorce). This body of law includes the law of torts in common law systems, or in civilian systems, the Law of Obligations.
Commercial law, often considered to be part of civil law, covers  business and commerce relations including sales and business entities.
Common law is derived from Anglo-Saxon customary law, also referred to as judge-made law, as it developed over the course of many centuries in the English courts.
Criminal law (penal law) is the body of laws which regulate governmental sanctions (such as imprisonment and/or fines) as retaliation for crimes against the social order.
 International law governs the relations between states, or between citizens of different states, or international organizations.  Its two primary sources are customary law and treaties.
Procedural Law are rules and regulations found in an legal system that regulate access to legal institutions such as the courts, including the filing of private lawsuits and regulating the tréatment of defendants and convicts by the public criminal justice system. Within this field are laws regulating arrests and evidence, injunctions and pleadings. Procedural law defines the procedure by which law is to be enforced.  See criminal procedure and civil procedure.
Space law regulates events occurring outside éarth's atmosphere. At present this is limited to several tréaties against atomic testing in space.

Legal subject areas 
Administrative law - Admiralty - Alternative dispute resolution - Appellate review - Brehon Laws - Civil procedure - Civil rights - Commercial law - Comparative law - Consuetudinary law - Contracts - Constitutional law - Courts of England and Wales - Corporations law - Criminal law - Criminal procedure - Election law - Environmental law - Equity - Evidence - Family law - Human rights - Immigration - Intellectual property - Jurisprudence - Law and economics - Agency - Law of Obligations - Labor law - Land use - List of items for which possession is restricted - Military law - Philosophy of law - Practice of law - Private law - Procedural law - Property law - Public Health law - Religious law - Statutory law - Tax law - Technology law - Torts - Trusts and Estates - Cyber law - Water law

Subjects auxiliary to law 
Government - Legal history - Law and literature - Political science

Terms, case law, legislation and other resources
 Law topics overview
 List of jurists
 List of legal topics
 List of basic criminal justice topics
 List of international public law topics
 List of Supreme Court of Canada cases
 List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases
 List of United States Supreme Court cases
 List of leading legal cases in copyright law
 List of treaties
 List of Uniform Acts (United States)
 List of United States federal legislation
 Québec Highway Safety Code

Legal books 
 Black's Law Dictionary
 Halsbury's Laws of England
 Corpus Juris Secundum
 American Law Reports
 Recueil Dalloz

Further reading
 Cheyenne Way: Conflict & Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence, Karl N. Llewellyn and  E. Adamson Hoebel, University of Oklahoma Press, 1983, trade paperback, 374 pages, ISBN 0806118555
The Bilingual LSP Dictionary. Principles and Practice for Legal language, Sandro Nielsen, Gunter Narr Verlag 1994.
 Other books by Karl N. Llewellyn

See also 
 Law (principle)
 List of legal abbreviations
 Legal code
 Letter versus Spirit
 Natural law
 Religious law
 Witness intimidation

External links 
Law & Legal News & Reference
Essentials of Law-Related Education. ERIC Digest. 
WorldLII - The World Legal Information Institute

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