List Of Areas Of Law - Types Of Law

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

By area of study and practice

• Advertising law
• Admiralty 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
• Business law (or commercial law); 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 and safety law
• Health law
• Immigration law
• Insurance law
• Intellectual property law
• International law
• International trade and finance law
• Internet law
• Juvenile law
• Labour law (or Labor law)
• Land use & zoning law
• Litigation
• Martial law
• Media law
• Medical law
• Mergers & acquisitions law
• Military law
• Mining 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
• Sexual Law