What is law?
Law, The Multifaced Phenomenon
What is law? This is one of those questions that is impossible to give one definite answer to since law is a multifaced phenomenon. Law is an extremely complex subject that could mean different things to various people. There is no single definition that could fit to everyone’s mindset.
I believe that law, this multifaced phenomenon is everywhere and shows its dissimilar sides to all of us. It surrounds us in every aspect of our lives. Law is there when you drive to work and follow the traffic regulations, when you buy your household essentials in Superstore, when you deal with certain government authorities or simply pay your tax. Just to mention the most common situations in which you could encounter law. When it comes to more complex matters, law appears to play a major role. When we are talking about contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, investments that will pay off in more than 50 years, saving our environment, international agreements that influence whole nations’ future, it all boils down to law at the end. Rules that need to be followed, enforceable, understandable and reflective to the subject it regulates. “The whole word is structured by laws of one sort or another. The law is a form we cannot avoid, whatever its substance. We think and act in relation to law.”1 In this respect, law is a point of reference, a gadget that most of us use to measure what we can and cannot do in the society’s playground. When we are talking about human rights, indigenous rights, criminal offences we have reached an area that denotes the borderline between modern and prehistoric ages. These are the major areas of law that indicate what a long way we have come since the times when our ancestors lived in hordes and followed basic rules that helped them to survive until now when sophisticated protection of those rights that were ignored for thousands of years exist finally.
What is the major function of law? Why do we need it?
What is law? This is one of those questions that is impossible to give one definite answer to since law is a multifaced phenomenon. Law is an extremely complex subject that could mean different things to various people. There is no single definition that could fit to everyone’s mindset.
I believe that law, this multifaced phenomenon is everywhere and shows its dissimilar sides to all of us. It surrounds us in every aspect of our lives. Law is there when you drive to work and follow the traffic regulations, when you buy your household essentials in Superstore, when you deal with certain government authorities or simply pay your tax. Just to mention the most common situations in which you could encounter law. When it comes to more complex matters, law appears to play a major role. When we are talking about contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, investments that will pay off in more than 50 years, saving our environment, international agreements that influence whole nations’ future, it all boils down to law at the end. Rules that need to be followed, enforceable, understandable and reflective to the subject it regulates. “The whole word is structured by laws of one sort or another. The law is a form we cannot avoid, whatever its substance. We think and act in relation to law.”1 In this respect, law is a point of reference, a gadget that most of us use to measure what we can and cannot do in the society’s playground. When we are talking about human rights, indigenous rights, criminal offences we have reached an area that denotes the borderline between modern and prehistoric ages. These are the major areas of law that indicate what a long way we have come since the times when our ancestors lived in hordes and followed basic rules that helped them to survive until now when sophisticated protection of those rights that were ignored for thousands of years exist finally.
What is the major function of law? Why do we need it?