Secret law refers to legal authorities that require compliance that are classified or otherwise withheld from the public.
[1] Since about 2015 the branches of the United States federal government have accused one another of creating secret law.
[3] The term has been used in reference to some counterterrorist measures[4] taken by the Bush administration following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Siân Berry, at the time a member of the London Assembly, said "Being able to know what rules you are being governed by, and how to challenge them, is a fundamental part of democracy".
[6] Secret laws and their negative effects are described in Franz Kafka's novel Der Prozess (The Trial).