Private law deals with legal disputes between individuals and/or organisations in areas such as contracts, property, torts/delicts and commercial law. This distinction is stronger in civil law countries, particularly those with a separate system of administrative courts; by contrast, the public-private law divide is less pronounced in common law jurisdictions. All legal systems deal with the same basic issues, but jurisdictions categorise and identify their legal topics in different ways.
- The most familiar institutions of civil society include economic markets, profit-oriented firms, families, trade unions, hospitals, universities, schools, charities, debating clubs, non-governmental organisations, neighbourhoods, churches, and religious associations.
- Hegel believed that civil society and the state were polar opposites, within the scheme of his dialectic theory of history.
- So the law ought to pre-empt what would happen, and be guided by the most efficient solution.
- Prepares you to fight injustice and to help empower and advocate for communities.
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