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[Frank_v._Geelkekren]

I copied the Law article from WiKiPedia as a place holder.
The question is do we think this article should be amended or completely rewritten?
Either way I think we should split up this article as it is too long.
It might be an idea to make a short page on what divisions can be made within the field of law;
Civil law / Common law - and subdivisions in criminal-, contract-, property-, administrative- and constitutional law.
And make every subdivision a separate article.
An article on law should not delve in too deeply on the material side of legislation, but rather have a general overview with links to in-depth articles

And finally I think we need to have an article explaining the notion of le principe de la séparation des pouvoirs, because the current explanation is too flimsy I think.

[Brian Dean Abramson]

For starters, I think we should put "sources of law" before most anything else, and explain that in primitive societies, law and custom are essentially the same (with the society as a whole sanctioning the punishment of those who fail to obey customs). All societies must have a mechanism to deal with people who act in a way that is destructive to the society as a whole. One offshoot of this concern is the requirement that some mechanism exist to resolve conflicts between individuals.

As societies become more advanced and more complex, the development and enforcement of laws takes a different track. It is almost a universal experience that the process of making laws becomes concentrated in the hands of a few persons of wealth and power.  In many societies this concentration of power is then broken, either by revolution or by the gradual diminishment of the importance of powerful figures, leading to the establishment of some form of representative democracy, wherein citizens are given the right to choose legislators who fashion laws on their behalf.

That's where I would start, anyway.

-Brian