Project:WikiProject Law

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Law. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

This Wikiproject is aimed at creating a greater consistency among the law-related articles. Key areas of concern include consistency in defining concepts across multiple jurisdictions and proper categorization of articles.

It is vital that we create a comprehensive explanation of the common law, which is shared by most English-speaking countries. The common law is clearly divisible into a number of key areas, each of which should be tackled and developed in turn. These areas are:

• Contract law
• Tort law
• Property law, including Real property, Wills and Trusts
• Criminal law
• Public law
• Evidence

Equally vital is a comprehensive explanation of the most widespread type of law, law based on civil code. The categories of civil code often have complete one-to-one equivalents in common law, but the major areas are generally classified by one of two systems:

Institutional System of the Roman jurist Gaius:

• Law of Persons (personae)
• Law of Things (res)
• Issues common to both parts (actiones).

Pandectist System:

• General part
• Law of Obligation
• Law of Real Rights
• Family Law
• Law of Inheritance

Each of these areas contains a wide array of long-established but nuanced doctrines, and each has a complex and ultimately fascinating history - making this a particularly worthy project for Wikipedia to conquer!

A joint effort that can be undertaken between this project and WikiProject Philosophy is to improve the quality of articles concerned with the philosophical questions about law itself. Key components of the philosophy of law include:

• Jurisprudence
• Natural law
• Legal realism
• Legal formalism
• Legal positivism
• Legal system
• The notion of rights

You can join this project by adding your name on the participants list and placing the {{tl|User WikiProject Law}} template on your user page.

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If there is a legal subject that you feel needs to be covered, but hasn't, please add it to the needed article list by clicking here. Please follow the instructions on the needed articles page.

• See also: Skysmith's list of missing topics{{spaced ndash}}Law & law enforcement.

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Just add {{tlx|WikiProject Law|class{{=}} |importance{{=}} }} to the top of the talk page of any law-related articles. By adding the respective parameters, the template will categorize legal articles by quality and by importance.

{{WikiProject Law|class=Start|importance=Mid|category=no}}

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Law templates

{{See also|Category:Law infobox templates}}

{{See also|Category:Law navigational boxes}}

• {{tlx|Judicial functions of the House of Lords}}
• {{tlx|Supreme Court of the United Kingdom}}
• {{tlx|Supreme Court of Canada}}
• {{tlx|Law}}{{spaced ndash}}this general "Law and Legal systems" template can be added to the bottom of any law-related article. It currently needs categories added, especially with regard to non-U.S. legal systems.

{{See also|Category:Law stubs}}

• {{tlx|law-stub}}{{spaced ndash}}this general "Law stub" template can be added to the bottom of any law-related article that meets the standards of a stub or start class article.

{{See also|Category:WikiProject Law participants}}

A list of law-related userboxes is hosted at WP:Hornbook/UBX.

• {{tlx|User WikiProject Law}}{{spaced ndash}}participants are encouraged to add this template to their user page or add WikiProject Law to their Babel code.

{{User WikiProject Law|categories=no}}

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The Law Barnstar may be awarded to for those who contribute significantly to WikiProject Law. This Barnstar was introduced by Chaza93 on June 12, 2007, and designed by Regicollis

• Categorization discussion
• Cleanup discussion

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