Anarchist law

Anarchist law is a term variously used to describe the apparent norms regarding behavior and decision-making operative within an anarchist community from the perspective of a law-normative viewpoint. Over the course of the last two hundred years as anarchism has grown and evolved to include diverse strains, there have been different conceptions of "anarchist law" produced and discussed, or used in practice. Anarchism has been characterized as opposed to law and this opposition to the legal order is shared by most anarchists, which is understood by many as a call for systematical obedience to rules decided by body external to the subjects, no matter how immoral or illogical they are. According to anarchist scholar Shawn P. Wilbur first self-proclaimed anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon saw necessity as the only law applicable to anarchistic relations.