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100 | Philosophy |
170 | Ethics |
320 | Politics |
321.022094 | EC/EU government and politics |
323.4 | Civil rights |
328.4 | European Parliament |
328.42 | British Parliament |
340 | Law |
341 | International law |
341.184 | EC/EU law |
342 | Regional legal systems |
342.63 | Church of England |
343 | Ancient and medieval law |
345 | Common law - general |
346 | Common law - Public law |
347 | Common law - Private law |
349 | Other modern legal systems |
350 | Public administration |
352.042 | British local government |
353 | United States Federal government |
354.42 | British central government |
360 | Social welfare |
364 | Criminology |
364.942 | Criminal justice - Great Britain |
Administrative law 346.4
Banking law 347.62
Children 347.126
Civil rights 346.35
Commercial law 347.7
Company law 347.72
Comparative law 340.5
Competition law 341.518 & 341.73
Conflict of laws 341.9 & 347.01
Constitutional law – British 346.142
Contracts 347.4
Courts 345.2 & 345.3
Criminal law 346.8
Employment law 347.16
English legal history 345.942
English legal system 345.0942
Environmental law 347.1463
Equity 347.8
Family law 347.12
Feminist law 347.128
Financial law 341.516 & 347.6
Food law 347.1462
Gas law 347.2293
Housing law 347.24
Human rights 341.37
Intellectual property 347.27
International arbitration 341.511
International criminal law 341.4
International economic law 341.5
International trade 341.51
Judicial review 346.46
Jurisprudence 340.1
Land law 347.21
Landlord and tenant 347.23
Legal research 340.017
Legal study skills 345.08
Legal writing 340.018 & 345.066
Marriage 347.122
Medical ethics 174.2
Medical law 347.1195
Murder 346.861
Natural law 340.141
Negligence 347.553
Obscenity 346.893
Oil law 347.2293
Personal property 347.26
Planning law 347.24
Precedent 345.12
Racial discrimination 347.133
Real property 347.21
Roman law 343.4
Rule of law 346.121
Sale of goods 347.75
Sex discrimination 347.134
Sexual offences 346.863
Sociology of law 340.15
Tax law 346.52
Terrorism 341.46
Theft 346.871
Torts 347.5
Treaties
– texts 341.01
– theory 341.2
Trusts 347.85
War 341.8
War crimes 341.4