Editing Outline of law (section)

== Nature of law ==
Law can be described as all of the following:

* Academic discipline &ndash; the body of knowledge given to - or received by - a disciple (student); a branch or sphere of knowledge, or field of study, that an individual has chosen to specialise in.
** one of the humanities &ndash; an academic discipline that studies the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
* System &ndash; set of elements (often called 'components' instead) and relationships which are different from relationships of the set or its elements to other elements or sets.
** part of the legal system &ndash; legal scholarship and practice shapes how the law is interpreted and applied in societies