What makes a just law and an unjust law?

To understand what makes a just law and an unjust law the question, what is law? needs to be answered first. What constitutes a law? What is the significance of a law? Who decides what a law is and is not? These are some of the questions I will now go on to address.

Theorists have for a long time been discussing and establishing their own theories on what law is or ought to be. From understanding what a law is or ought to be, they can distinguish between a just and unjust law.

What are Laws?

Laws are a system of rules, which help govern a country or community. They are there to help guide society and for them to achieve a desired good. Laws are produced by an authority. They are essentially there to help govern actions and situations in a society. Laws are normally enforced by sanctions. Those who break the law could therefore be in risk of coercive measures being applied…(short extract)