List of Library of Congress Legal Classification in each Country

The following list is a mix of classifications used by the LC in countries of South America, Africa and Europe. It does not include the main countries of the LC Classification (like the U.S., Canada, UK, etc.).

List of the Topics:

• Academies. By name of academy, A-Z
• Addresses, essays, lectures
• Administrative law
• Alcohol. Alcoholic beverages. Liquor laws
• Animal protection. Animal welfare. Animal rights
• Bar associations. Law societies. Law institutes
• Bibliography
• Birth control. Family planning. Population control
• Casebooks. Readings
• Civil law
• Civil service. Government officials and employees
• Collected works (nonserial)
• Colonial law
• Commercial law
• Communication. Mass media
• Community legal services. Legal aid. Legal services to the poor
• Compends. Outlines, syllabi, etc.
• Concepts applying to several branches of the law, A-Z
• Conflict of laws
• Congresses. By date of congress
• Congresses. Conferences
• Constitutional law
• Consular functions
• Control of social activities. Recreation
• Court decisions and related materials. Reports
• Courts. Procedure
• Criminal courts. Criminal procedure
• Criminal law
• Criminal law and procedure
• Criminal procedure
• Criticism. Legal reform
• Cultural affairs
• Decisions of national (federal) administrative agencies
• Decorations of honor. Awards. Dignities
• Dictionaries. Words and phrases
• Digests of official gazettes
• Directories
• Economic law
• Economic legislation
• Encyclopedias
• Environmental law
• Eugenics. Sterilization
• Food. Drugs. Cosmetics
• Form books
• General principles and concepts
• General works. Treatises
• Government measures in time of war, national emergency, or economic crisis. Emergency economic legislation
• History
• History of law
• Indians
• Indigenous peoples. Ethnic groups
• Influence of foreign law
• Influence of other legal systems on the law (Reception)
• Intellectual and industrial property
• Intertemporal law. Retroactive law
• Judicial statistics
• Juvenile criminal law and procedure. Administration of juvenile justice
• Labor law
• Law reform and policies. Criticism
• Law reporting
• Law reports and related materials
• Law societies and institutes. By name, A-Z
• Legal composition and draftsmanship
• Legal education
• Legal research. Legal bibliography
• Legislation
• Local government
• Manuals and other works for particular groups of users. By user, A-Z
• Maxims. Quotations
• Medical legislation
• Monographic series
• National defense. Military law
• National emblem. Flag
• Notarial law. Public instruments
• Official gazettes
• Other materials relating to legislative history
• Periodicals
• Philosophy, jurisprudence, and theory of law
• Philosophy. Jurisprudence
• Police and power of the police
• Police and public safety
• Popular works. Civics
• Prevention of cruelty to animals
• Private international law. Conflict of laws
• Private international law. Plurality of laws conflict. Legal polycentricity
• Private law
• Professions. Intelligentsia
• Professions. Intelligentsia (Socialist)
• Public finance
• Public health
• Public health. Sanitation
• Public law
• Public property. Public restraint on private property
• Public property. Public restraints on private property
• Public registers. Registration
• Public safety
• Public works
• Regional divisions. Subregions
• Regulation of industry, trade, and commerce. Occupational law
• Retroactive law. Intertemporal law
• Seat of government
• Secular ecclesiastical law
• Social legislation
• State and religion
• The legal profession
• Transportation
• Trials
• Unfair competition
• Veterinary laws. Veterinary hygiene
• Weather bureau. Meteorological stations
• Works for particular users, A-Z
• Works on diverse aspects of particular subjects and falling within several branches of the law. By subject, A-Z