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  2. Nomiki Konst - Wikipedia

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    2012–present. Nomiki Daphne Konst (born January 27, 1984) is an American journalist, progressive activist, [1] and political commentator who is known for her work on The Young Turks and Our Revolution. [2][3] In 2019, Konst was a candidate for New York City Public Advocate. She was a candidate in the Democratic primaries of the 2022 New York ...

  3. Law - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, II, 6. The philosophy of law is commonly known as jurisprudence. Normative jurisprudence asks "what should law be?", while analytic jurisprudence asks "what is law?" Analytical jurisprudence Main article: Analytical jurisprudence There have been several attempts to produce "a universally acceptable definition of law". In 1972, Baron Hampstead ...

  4. List of areas of law - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters. From, one of the five capital lawyers in Roman Law, Domitius Ulpianus, (170–223) – who differentiated ius publicum versus ius privatum – the European, more exactly the continental law, philosophers and thinkers want(ed) to put each branch of law into this dichotomy: Public and Private Law ...

  5. List of laws - Wikipedia

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    Amdahl's law (maximum possible speed-up to a parallel program when adding more computing power) Bell's law of computer classes (corollary to Moore's law for computer class formation) Brooks's law. Conway's law. Dennard scaling. Engelbart's law. Eroom's law. Godwin's law (Prediction of internet debating patterns)

  6. Common law - Wikipedia

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    Legal systems of the world, with common law systems in several shades of pink [1] Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions. [2] The defining characteristic of common law is that it arises as ...

  7. Legal history - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations [1] and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and historians of legal process have seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws ...

  8. Code of law - Wikipedia

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    Code of law. A code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes. It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. [1] Though the process and motivations for ...

  9. Natural law - Wikipedia

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    Natural law. Natural law[1] (Latin: ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by natural law's proponents to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or society). [2]