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I am not convinced that 'business law' is really a category of law, and I am particularly doubtful that it is reasonable to categorise labour law as a subcategory of business law. What is referred to as 'business law' is really a kind of Readers Digest version of various distinct branches of the law, which is then taught to non-lawyers (eg, students of accounting, commerce, business studies and the like). If someone wants to defend the category, I'm all ears, but at the moment I'm inclined to propose that (a) someone should work on an article about business law if they are committed to it, but as a subcategory of something like legal education perhaps; (b) we do away with the category and the roping in of substantive branches of the law as subcategories of this. I won't touch anything before there's an opportunity to discuss. SilasM 22:31, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I agree with your charactorization of business law as an applied topic taught to business people. However I do not agree with your conclusion that because of this we should not have a business law category. Subsummed in your reasoning is the faulty assumption that an article can be in one category only. I have no problem with, for example, the product liability article in both the business law category and the torts category. We cannot forget that the purpose of the categorization scheme is to make it easy for people to find articles: It is not to create an elegently designed database free of overlap. If a business person is trying to find a legal article relevent to their business, lets make it easy for them and provide a category. mydogategodshat 00:43, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
That sounds like a fair response to me. And even if it did not, I wouldn't interfere with something like this that which isn't actually doing any harm, and someone is prepared to defend. Cheers. --SilasM 03:19, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have noticed that there are now two business law categories (business law and commercial law). These should be merged. mydogategodshat 00:46, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I have put the articles that were in commercial law into business law. mydogategodshat 05:17, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
