The legal system of Vietnam has all the characteristics of a civil law tradition, which is essentially based on the written law. The Vietnamese law system comprises three fundamental elements as follows:
– Legal norms (elementary unit of the system);
– Legal classes (group of legal norms that have the same features and regulate a group of correlative social relations);
– Legal branches (system of legal norms that have the same specialities to govern a sort of social relations in a certain field of society). In the Vietnamese law system, there are various legal branches, as follows:
- Branch of Constitutional Laws
- Branch of Administrative Laws
- Branch of Financial Laws
- Branch of Banking Laws
- Branch of Land Laws
- Branch of Civil Laws
- Branch of Labour Laws
- Branch of Criminal Laws
- Branch of Economical Laws