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This book is an attempt to affect the multifaceted complexity of law as a normative system. It is also an honor of prof. Aleš Gerloch - a prominent Czech legal scientist and pedagogue who dedicated his life to law research. The book maps the essential properties of law, its links to various social subsystems (morality and politics), phenomena (power and authority) and institutions (state). Attention is paid to structural issues (relative autonomy of law), the functionality of law (its creation, interpretation, application and operation), individual areas of law (problems of private and public law) and legal thinking. The approach of the authors reflects the traditions of law (Roman law foundations), the current state of legal regulation and new challenges brought by societal changes (globalization, integration, multiculturalism, new technologies), as well as the response to law (legal pluralism, judicialization of law, modification of division of power, innovation in legal methodology). The book is a combination of macro- and micro-perspectives on law, a set of synthetic and analytical works. The authors also try to offer perspectives for the future, they are not only about a description, but also about a forecast of the development of law. The result of the cooperation of a number of our and foreign authors is a comprehensive elaboration of the historical foundations, current state and perspectives of law, while not forgetting the personal contribution of the jubilee to the development of legal theory and practice.