Areas of Law

Browse Practice Areas of Law

The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters. Explore and understand the different areas of law,

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Practice Areas

This list summarizes major areas of law practice in alphabetical order:

Aboriginal Law
Administrative law
Admiralty law (or maritime law)
Advertising law
Agency law
Agriculture Law
Alcohol law
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Animal law
Antitrust and Trade Regulation
Antitrust law (or competition law)
Appellate practice
Art law (or art and culture law)
Aviation and Space Law
Aviation law
Banking Law
Bankruptcy Law
Biotechnology law
Business entities law (or companies law)
Business law
Case law
Civil law
Civil Rights
Class action litigation/Mass tort litigation
Commercial law
Commercial law commercial litigation
Communications Law
Computer law
Conflict of law (or Private International Law )
Constitutional Law
Construction law
Consumer Law
Contract and Remedy Law
Contract law
Controlled Products Law
Copyright law
Corporate compliance law
Corporate governance law
Corporate law (or company law), also corporate compliance law and corporate governance law
Corporation and Enterprise Law
Creditor and debtor law
Criminal Law
Cryptography law
Cultural property law
Custom (law)
Cyber law
Cyber Rights
Defamation
Derivatives and futures law
Disability Law
Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Mediation
Drug control law
Education Law
Elder Law
Employee benefits law (ERISA)
Employment law
Energy law
Entertainment and Sports Law
Entertainment law
Environmental Law
Equipment finance law
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Evidence
Family and Juvenile Law
Family law
FDA law
Finance and Securities Law
Financial services regulation law
Firearm law
Food law
Forms and Precedents
Franchise law
Gaming law
Government Benefits Law
Government Contracts
Health and Medicine Law
Health and safety law
Health care law
Health law
Immigration Law
Indian and Native Peoples Law
Information Technology Law
Injury & Tort Law
Insolvency and reorganization law
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property Law
International law
International Private law
International Trade
Internet law
Judges and the Judiciary
Juvenile law
Labor law
Labor law (or Labour law)
Labour and Employment Law
Land use and zoning law
Landlord and Tenant Law
Legal Ethics
Legal History
Legal Theory
Litigation
Maritime and Transport Law
Martial law
Media and Entertainment Law
Media law
Mergers & acquisitions law
Military law
Mining law
Music law
Mutual funds law
Nationality law
Native American law
Natural Resources Law
Negligence and Malpractice Law
Obscenity law
Oil & gas law
Parliamentary law
Patent law
Politics and Government Law
Poverty law
Privacy and Information Law
Privacy law
Private equity law
Private funds law / Hedge funds law
Procedure law (or Procedural law)
Product liability litigation
Property Law
Public health law
Public Interest Law
Public International Law
Railroad law
Real estate law
Rights and Freedoms
Securities Law
Securities law / Capital markets law
Sexuality Law
Social Security disability law
Space law
Sports law
Statutory law
Tax Law
Technology law
Timber law
Tort law
Trade law
Trademark law
Transport law / Transportation law
Transportation Law
Trusts & estates law
Venture capital law
Water law
Wills, Estates and Trusts Law
Wills, Trusts, Estates and Probate
Women, Gender and Law