public law

English

Noun

public law (uncountable)

1. (law) A category of law governing the relationship between the state on the one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law.

Translations

law

• Catalan: dret públic m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公法 (zh) (gōngfǎ)

• Dutch: publiekrecht n
• Estonian: avalik õigus
• Finnish: julkisoikeus (fi)
• French: droit public (fr) m
• German: öffentliches Recht n
• Greek: δημόσιο δίκαιο n (dimósio díkaio)
• Hindi: जन कानून (jan kānūn)
• Hungarian: közjog (hu)
• Italian: diritto pubblico (it) m
• Japanese: 公法 (ja) (kōhō)
• Korean: 공법 (gongbeop)
• Latin: iūs pūblicum n
• Latvian: publiskās tiesības m
• Lithuanian: viešoji teisė f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: offentlig rett

• Persian: حقوق عمومی
• Polish: prawo publiczne (pl) n
• Portuguese: direito público (pt) m
• Romanian: drept public (ro) n
• Russian: обще́ственное пра́во n (obščéstvennoje právo), публи́чное пра́во (ru) n (publíčnoje právo)
• Slovak: verejné právo
• Spanish: derecho público m
• Swedish: offentlig rätt (sv)
• Thai: กฎหมายมหาชน (gòt-mǎai-má-hǎa-chon)
• Turkish: kamu hukuku (tr)
• Ukrainian: публі́чне пра́во n (publíčne právo)
• West Frisian: publykrjocht

See also

• private law
• public international law