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State constitution
* Many state constitutions make the public schools a responsibility of the state or local government.
* Most state constitutions are a mirrored version of the U.S. Constitution.
* do much more than simply set forth the outlines of the state government.
* guarantee all children the right to a free public education.
* vary greatly in their treatment of administrative agencies.

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Contract law
* applies when a college guarantees certain rights to students when they register.
* are jurisprudence.
* can be a mechanism for agreeing on and enforcing privacy policies.
* defines consideration as an exchange of some benefit or some value.
* governs much of what happens to intellectual property.
* is covered partly by the common law and partly by statutes
  - usually state law rather than federal law
* prevents opportunism in exchanges involving the passage of time.
* protects justifiable expectations and the security of transactions.
* recognizes the equality of bargaining power between individuals.
* seeks to protect rights created between parties by their mutual agreement.
* sets rules on agreements to buy and sell items and services.
+ Law, Types of law

Corporate law
* establishes a structure under which all corporations operate.
* has important intersections with contract and commercial transactions law.

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Current law
* considers corporations as legal persons.
* defines cultures and stocks as laboratory wastes infectious to humans.
* imposes sanctions on foreign countries for the detonation of nuclear devices.
* limits optometrists to the use of topical pharmaceutical agents.
* makes it unlawful for people to marry or have sexual relations with their relatives.
* refers to a list of all taxable property.
* requires the use of physical force for someone to be charged with rape.
* states that a person is charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Customary law
* are also sources of law.
* differs from formal law in a number of ways, including the fact that it is unwritten.
* has a role to play as a management constraint.
* is essentially the law of civilized nations
  - from unwritten tribal practices
  - necessary in remote communities as it provides swift and effective punishment
* tends to be insensitive to gender equity.

Discrimination law
* concern the gay and lesbian communities.
* is concerned with the motivation behind an action.

Divine law
* are laws.
* is higher than the laws of men.
* requires the couple to stay together until death, even if they have no children.

Elder law
* encompasses all aspects of planning for aging, illness, and incapacity
  - many different fields of law
* have components.
* is also concerned with protecting working seniors
  - that area of legal issues which concern older adults

Employment law
* complex area of law.
* encompasses a wide range of issues and concerns in the workplace.
* is one of the fastest-developing areas of law
  - the law which governs the relationship between employer and employees
* provide rudimentary health and safety standards for the workplace.

English law
* allows most contracts, except for the sale of land, to be made orally.
* is derived from English common law with a heavy influence of medieval Germanic sources.
* requires people who marry in the country to establish residency.