List of areas of law

The following is a list of major areas of legal practice and important legal subject-matters.

By area of study and practice

• Administrative law
• Admiralty law or maritime law
• Adoption law
• Agency law
• Alcohol law
• Alternative dispute resolution
• Animal law
• Antitrust law (or competition law)
• Art law (or art and culture law)
• Aviation law
• Banking law
• Bankruptcy law (creditor debtor rights law or insolvency and reorganization law)
• Bioethics
• Business law (or commercial law); commercial litigation
• Business organizations law (or companies law)
• Canon law
• Civil law or common law
• Class action litigation/Mass tort litigation
• Communications law
• Computer law
• Competition 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
• Drug control law
• Education law
• Elder law
• Employment law
• Energy law
• Entertainment law
• Environmental law
• Family law
• Financial services regulation law
• Firearm law
• Food law
• Gaming law
• Health and safety law
• Health law
• Housing law
• Immigration law
• Insurance law
• Intellectual property law
• International law
• International human rights law
• International humanitarian law
• International trade and finance law
• Internet law
• Juvenile law
• Labour law (or Labor law)
• Landlord–tenant law
• Litigation
• Martial law
• Media law
• Medical law
• Military law
• Mining law
• Mortgage law
• Music law
• Nationality law
• Obscenity law
• Parliamentary law
• Patent law
• Poverty law
• Privacy law
• Procedural law
• Property law
• Public health law
• Public International Law
• Real estate law
• Securities law / Capital markets law
• Space law
• Sports law
• Statutory law
• Tax law
• Technology law
• Tort law
• Trademark law
• Transport law / Transportation law
• Trusts & estates law
• Water law

See also

• Law § Areas of law
• Outline of law § Branches of law
• List of legal topics
• List of legal terms

References