Girolamo Tessuto » 2.The study of Law

The study of Law: divisions

Public law concerned with the protection of collective interests involving the state, and the legal relationships (duties/obligations) between the state and the individual.

Includes:

Constitutional Law
Administrative Law
Tax law
Criminal Law
Public international law

Private law concerned with the protection of individual interests and governs disputes and legal relationships between individuals.
Reference to private law also as civil law.

Includes:

Law of Contract

Law of Tort

Law of Property

Law of Succession

Family Law

The study of Law: divisions II

The study of Law: divisions III

Tax law (or Revenue law) regulates the compulsory contribution to the state’s funds.
Criminal Law (or penal law) deals with acts or omissions which are deemed to be public wrongs and are punishable by the state – ie, a crime is an event that is prohibited by law, one which can be followed by a prosecution in criminal proceedings and, thereafter, by punishment.
Substantive Law deals with rights, liabilities, and duties in all areas of law that are not matters purely of practice and procedure.
Procedural Law (or Adjective Law) defines the practice and procedure by which a law is to be enforced (eg, the way in which a right is enforced under civil law, or a crime prosecuted under the criminal law).
Municipal Law (or National Law) is the law operative within a local area (or state). One branch of that law is the law relating to Conflict of Laws, otherwise known as Private International Law, which determines which national law governs a case in which there is a foreign element.
International law (or jus gentium, law of nations) regulating the external relations of sovereign states, known as Public International Law. International law is also the body of rights and duties of citizens of different sovereign states between each other (Private International Law).