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  2. Characterisation (law) - Wikipedia

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    Characterisation, or characterization, in conflict of laws, is the second stage of the procedure to resolve a lawsuit that involves foreign law. The process is described in English law as Characterisation, [1] or classification within the English judgments of the European Court of Justice. [2]

  3. Law - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of law examines the interaction of law with society and overlaps with jurisprudence, philosophy of law, social theory and more specialised subjects such as criminology. [ 214 ] [ 215 ] It is a transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary study focused on the theorisation and empirical study of legal practices and experiences as social ...

  4. Classification - Wikipedia

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    Classification is a part of many different kinds of activities and is studied from many different points of view including medicine, philosophy, law, anthropology, biology, taxonomy, cognition, communications, knowledge organization, psychology, statistics, machine learning, economics and mathematics.

  5. Classified information in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [86] In a similar vein, an official named William G. Florence, who for decades had a major role in writing the secrecy regulations and classification system for the Pentagon, in 1971 testified to Congress that at most 5% of information labeled classified, confidential, secret, or top secret really merited such designation at the time it was so ...

  6. Law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Constitution of the United States The United States Congress enacts federal statutes in accordance with the Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest authority in interpreting federal law, including the federal Constitution, federal statutes, and federal ...

  7. Legal norm - Wikipedia

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    Scott Shapiro's Planning Theory of Law [2] is built upon two concepts: the nature of legal institutions and the nature of legal norms. The thesis of the Planning Theory argues how legal norms function as shared plans that legal institutions implement in order to exercise social control and governance, regardless of the moral merits of those norms and institutions.

  8. Jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    Jurisprudence, also known as theory of law or philosophy of law, is the examination in a general perspective of what law is and what it ought to be.It investigates issues such as the definition of law; legal validity; legal norms and values; as well as the relationship between law and other fields of study, including economics, ethics, history, sociology, and political philosophy.

  9. Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Pragmatic classification (and functional [40] and teleological classification) is the classification of items which emphasis the goals, purposes, consequences, [41] interests, values and politics of classification. It is, for example, classifying animals into wild animals, pests, domesticated animals and pets.