Law (disambiguation)

Law is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological or in a philosophical or semantic sense.

Law or laws may also refer to:

Government

*Rule of law, the principle that restricts governmental authority
*Items associated with the practice of law are often called "legal," such as "legal paper size;" see Paper size#North American paper sizes

Philosophy and religion

*Principle, an abstract object sometimes known as a "law"
**Adage, a principle in the form of a memorable saying
**See List of eponymous laws
*Religious law, the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs
*Natural law, an ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere
*"Laws" (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, dealing with the origin of normative laws and physical laws
*"The Law", a book by French classical liberal Frédéric Bastiat

cience and mathematics

*Laws of science, established principles thought to be universal and invariable
**Scientific law, or physical law, a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior
**See List of scientific laws named after people
*Law (stochastic processes), a mathematical law

ports

*Laredo Law, a defunct 2004 af2 arena football team in Laredo, Texas
*Regulation of sport, the rules and principles under which sport is conducted
**Laws of the Game, relating to football (soccer)
**Laws of cricket, relating to cricket
**Laws of Australian football, relating to Australian football

People

*Acie Law IV (born 1985), American basketball player
*Alvin Law (born 1960), Canadian motivational speaker
*Andrew Bonar Law (1858-09-16 – 1923-10-30), British prime minister
*Bernard Francis Law (born 1931), former Archbishop of Boston
*Evander M. Law (1836 – 1920), general in the Confederate States Army
*Denis Law (born 1940), Scottish football player
*John Law (disambiguation), name of a number of people
*Jude Law (born 1972), English actor
*Peter Law (1948-04-01 – 2006-04-25), Welsh politician
*Peter Law (actor) (years unknown), English actor and father of Jude Law
*Rick Law (born 1969), American illustrator
*Robert D. Law (1944 – 1969), United States Medal of Honor recipient
*Ty Law (born 1974), American football cornerback
*William Law (1686 – 1761), British politician
*William Law (Latter Day Saints) (1809–1892), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
*"Law" is a common transliteration for the Chinese surname 羅 (see Luo (surname))

People-named Laws

*Brian Laws (born 1961) English football player and manager
*George Malcolm Laws (born 1919), an American folklorist also known as G. Malcolm Laws
*John Laws (born 1935), an Australian broadcaster
*Stuart Laws (born 1950), a British racing driver
*List of eponymous laws

Other

*Law (comics), a fictional supervillain
*"L.A. Law", an American television show
*Law, South Lanarkshire, a small town in Scotland
*Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, a Scottish bus company also known as "Law of Shotts"
*One axis of the alignment system used in the role-playing game "Dungeons & Dragons"; see Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
*Law Rune, one of the Runes in the role-playing game "Runescape"
* A Lowland Scots word for a conical hill which rises incongruously from the surrounding landscape, see e.g. North Berwick Law

ee also

* LAW (disambiguation)