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Law is a set of norms, which can be seen both in a sociological or in a philosophical or semantic sense.

Law or laws may also refer to:

Government

Rule of law, the principle that restricts governmental authority
Items associated with the practice of law are often called "legal," such as "legal paper size;" see Paper size

Principle, an abstract object sometimes known as a law
- Adage, a principle in the form of a memorable saying
- See List of eponymous laws
Religious law, the ordering principle of reality; knowledge as revealed by God defining and governing all human affairs
Natural law, an ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere
Laws (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, dealing with the origin of normative laws and physical laws
The Law, a book by French classical liberal Frédéric Bastiat

Laws of science, established principles thought to be universal and invariable
- Scientific law, or physical law, a scientific generalization based on empirical observations of physical behavior
- See List of scientific laws named after people
Law (stochastic processes), a mathematical law

Laredo Law, a defunct 2004 af2 arena football team in Laredo, Texas
Regulation of sport, the rules and principles under which sport is conducted
- Laws of the Game, relating to football (soccer)
- Laws of cricket, relating to cricket
- Laws of Australian football, relating to Australian football

Acie Law IV (born 1985), American basketball player
Alvin Law (born 1960), Canadian motivational speaker
Andrew Bonar Law (1858-09-16 ? 1923-10-30), British prime minister
Bernard Francis Law (born 1931), former Archbishop of Boston
Evander M. Law (1836 ? 1920), general in the Confederate States Army
Denis Law (born 1940), Scottish football player
John Law (disambiguation), name of a number of people
Jude Law (born 1972), English actor
Peter Law (1948-04-01 ? 2006-04-25), Welsh politician
Peter Law (actor) (years unknown), English actor and father of Jude Law
Rick Law (born 1969), American illustrator
Robert D. Law (1944 ? 1969), United States Medal of Honor recipient
Ty Law (born 1974), American football cornerback
William Law (1686 ? 1761), British politician
William Law (Latter Day Saints) (1809?1892), early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
Law is a common transliteration for the Chinese surname ? (see Luo (surname))

George Malcolm Laws (born 1919), an American folklorist also known as G. Malcolm Laws
John Laws (born 1935), an Australian broadcaster
Stuart Laws (born 1950), a British racing driver
List of eponymous laws

Law (comics), a fictional supervillain
L.A. Law, an American television show
Law, South Lanarkshire, a small town in Scotland
Blue Bus of North Lanarkshire, a Scottish bus company also known as Law of Shotts
One axis of the alignment system used in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons; see Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)
Law Rune, one of the Runes in the role-playing game Runescape
A Lowland Scots word for a conical hill which rises incongruously from the surrounding landscape, see e.g. North Berwick Law