Branches of law

The legal system is divided into groups of norms regulating similar social relations – branches of law. Constitutional law sets the foundations of the state system, state bodies and human rights. Administrative law regulates relations between governing bodies and citizens, civil law property and contracts, labour law relations between employer and employee, family law marriage and parental relations. Criminal law defines which acts are crimes and what punishment applies. Land, environmental and financial law are separate branches too. Procedural branches (civil, criminal, economic, administrative) set how cases are heard in court. International law regulates relations between states. Branches are linked: one event may fall under several of them.