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Law
A basic Overview
Law is a set of ideals / rules normally policed through a system of government appointed institutions. Law affects life and society everyday in many ways. Contract law controls everything from purchasing a tram pass to selling a huge company. Property law defines rights and obligations related to selling, purchasing, or leasing realestate property such as houses and commercial buildings. Trust law applies to assets held for future investment, such as share holdings, and pension funds and so on. Legal law allows claims for repayment when an indivdual or their personal property is affected with damage or stolen.
However if the damage is criminalised in a law code, criminal law offers ways and means to dutifuly prosecute and punish the individual or individuals commiting the act. Constitutional law extends a framework for administering laws, protecting people's rights and human rights overall, and by electing political reps, even though administrative law allows ordinary citizens to challenge the way governments exercise power. International law controls affairs between sovereign nation-states in everything from trade to the environment to military action.
Greek philosopher Aristotle
"The rule of law", wrote the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle in 350 BC, "is better than the rule of any individual."
Latest news 2007
"
Legal Information: Globalization, Conglomerates and Competition-- Monopoly or Free Market,"
delivered at the recent AALL annual meeting in New Orleans. In this paper,
Kendall F.Svengalis clearly notes the result of the monopolisation of legal information with the resultant "collection devastation."
The IALL Annual Course in International Law Librarianship, "
Global Challenges and the Indian Legal System"
, will take place this year in Mumbai from 1st to 5th December 2007.
The conference website.