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Abjuration
Repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath
Alternative dispute resolution
Range of dispute resolution processes
Arbitration
Mediated dispute resolution method
Bar council
Professional body of barristers
Bill of rights
Proclamation of fundamental rights to citizens of a polity
Bodily integrity
Human right to personal autonomy, self-ownership, and self-determination
Capital punishment
Legal killing of a person as punishment for committing a crime
Capital punishment
Legal killing of a person as punishment for committing a crime
Castaway
Person who is cast adrift or ashore, usually in shipwreck
Civil and political rights
Rights preventing the infringement of personal freedom by other social actors
Civil death
Loss of all or almost all civil rights
Claim rights and liberty rights
Distinction between rights entailing or not entailing obligations
Code of law
Legislation that purports to cover a complete system of laws
Collaborative law
Legal process letting couples wanting to divorce to work with lawyers, coaches and finance professionals to achieve a settlement without litigation
Comparative law
Study of relationship between legal systems
Conciliation
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process
Conflict resolution
Methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution
Constitution
Set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed
Court reporter
Person who records court proceedings into an official transcript
Criminal justice
System of governments directed at mitigating crime, or sanctioning those who violate laws with criminal penalties and rehabilitation efforts
Customary law
Legal principle
Decree
Rule of law usually issued by a head of state
Digital rights
Human rights that allowing individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, or communications networks
Dispute resolution
Act of resolving disputes between parties
Due process
Requirement that courts respect all legal rights owed to people
Equality before the law
Judicial principle
Exile
Event by which a person is forced away from home
Freedom of association
Right to collective action
Freedom of movement
Right of individuals to travel from place to place, that imply freedom of no movement, that is freedom to choose residence. The movement also include going across a frontier.
Impartiality
Principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria
Impeachment
Process for charging a public official with legal offenses by the legislature
Individual and group rights
Notion of rights of individuals and collective rights
Judicial independence
Notion that judges should not be beholden to political pressures
Jurisprudence
Theoretical study of law
Justice (organisation)
Human rights organization in the UK
Law
System of rules and guidelines, generally backed by governmental authority
Lawyer-supported mediation
Legal Case
Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
Legal citation
Legal citations in court documents
Legal informatics
Information science by discipline
Legal writing
Pleading in civil and criminal law
Linguistic rights
Concerning the human / civil right to choose the language/s for communication in a private or public space
Marooning
Punishment for sailors at sea
Mediation
Dispute resolution with assistance of a moderator
Natural rights and legal rights
Two types of rights theoretically distinct according to philosophers and political scientists
Negative and positive rights
Rights that oblige either inaction or action
Negotiation
Dialogue intended to reach an agreement
Oath
Personal affirmation of a statement
Oath of office
Official promise by a person elected to public office to lawfully fulfill its duties
Ostracism
Democratic procedure for expelling citizens
Outlaw
Person declared as outside the protection of the law
Party-directed mediation
Mediation approach that relies heavily on the pre-caucus and on joint sessions where disputing parties face and speak directly to each other
Petalism
Penalty of exile from the ancient Greek city of Syracuse
Pledge of Allegiance
Loyalty oath to US flag and the republic itself
Practice of law
Legal practice
Precedent
Rule established in an earlier legal case
Presumption of innocence
Legal principle that one is presumed innocent until proven guilty
Primary and secondary legislation
Law made by the legislative branch of government, and by persons or groups delegated for this purpose by the legislature
Proactive law
1990s movement in legal theory
Promise
Index of articles associated with the same name
Public interest
"Common well-being" or "general welfare"
Reproductive rights
Legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health
Restorative justice
Approach to justice where victims and perpetrators mediate a restitution agreement
Right of self-defense
Right for people to use reasonable force or defensive force
Right to a fair trial
Civil and human right
Right to property
The human right to own property
Rights
Legal, social, or ethical principles
Rule of lenity
Principle of statutory interpretation
Sources of law
Origin of rules regulating human conduct
Sovereign immunity
Legal doctrine
States' rights
Political powers reserved for US states
Statute
Formal written document that creates law
Statutory interpretation
Judicial interpretation of statutory law
Substantive law
Law governing societal behavior
Suffrage
Right to vote in public and political elections
VOW
Topics referred to by the same term
Witness (organization)
Human rights organization
Women's suffrage
Legal right of women to vote
Wrongdoing
Act that is illegals or immoral
Wrongful execution
Execution of a convict who is actually innocent