List of areas of law
The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters.
For list of legal terms, see List of legal topics and List of legal terms.
By area of study and practice
- Administrative law
- Admiralty law (or maritime law)
- Advertising law
- Agency law
- Alcohol law
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Animal law
- Antitrust law (or competition law)
- Appellate practice
- Art law (or art and culture law)
- Aviation law
- Banking law
- Bankruptcy law (creditor debtor rights law or insolvency and reorganization law)
- Bioethics
- Bird law
- Business law (or commercial law); also commercial litigation
- Business organizations law (or companies law)
- Civil law or common law
- Class action litigation/Mass tort litigation
- Communications law
- Computer law
- Conflict of law (or private international law)
- Constitutional law
- Construction law
- Consumer law
- Contract law
- Copyright law
- Corporate law (or company law), also corporate compliance law and corporate governance law
- Criminal law
- Cryptography law
- Cultural property law
- Custom (law)
- Cyber law
- Defamation
- Derivatives and futures law
- Drug control law
- Elder law
- Employee benefits law (ERISA)
- Employment law
- Energy law
- Entertainment law
- Environmental law
- Equipment finance law
- Evidence
- Family law
- FDA law
- Financial services regulation law
- Firearm law
- Food law
- Franchise law
- Gaming law
- Health law
- Health and safety law
- Health care law
- Immigration law
- Insurance law
- Intellectual property law
- International law
- International trade and finance law
- Internet law
- Labour law (or Labor law)
- Land use & zoning law
- Litigation
- Martial law
- Media law
- Mergers & acquisitions law
- Military law
- Mining law
- Juvenile law
- Music law
- Mutual funds law
- Nationality law
- Native American law
- Obscenity law
- Oil & gas law
- Parliamentary law
- Patent law
- Poverty law
- Privacy law
- Private equity law
- Private funds law / Hedge funds law
- Procedural law
- Product liability litigation
- Property law
- Public health law
- Public International Law
- Railroad law
- Real estate law
- Securities law / Capital markets law
- Social Security disability law
- Space law
- Sports law
- Statutory law
- Tax law
- Technology law
- Timber law
- Tort law
- Trademark law
- Transport law / Transportation law
- Trusts & estates law
- Utilities Regulation
- Venture capital law
- Water law