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Welcome to the Law WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to law.

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This Wikiproject is aimed at creating a greater consistency among the law related articles. Key areas of concern include consistency in defining concepts across multiple jurisdictions and proper categorization of articles.

As a foundation for this effort, it is vital that we create a comprehensive explanation of the common law, which is shared by most English-speaking countries. The common law is clearly divisible into a number of key areas, each of which should be tackled and developed in turn. These areas are:

• Contract law
• Tort law
• Property law, including Real property, Wills and Trusts
• Criminal law
• Evidence

Each of these areas contains a wide array of long-established but nuanced doctrines, and each has a complex and ultimately fascinating history - making this a particularly worthy project for Wikipedia to conquer!

A joint effort that can be undertaken between this project and Wikiproject Philosophy is to improve the quality of articles concerned with the philosophical questions about law itself. Key components of the philosophy of law include:

• Jurisprudence
• Natural law
• Legal realism
• Legal formalism
• Legal positivism
• Legal system
• The notion of rights

The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:

1. Templates
2. General considerations
3. Article contents
4. Citation

All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.