List of areas of law
Encyclopedia
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
For list of legal terms see: List of legal topics and list of legal terms
By topic
- Administrative Rules
- Admiralty Rules / Maritime Rules
- Agency Rules
- Alcohol Rules
- Alternative dispute resolutionAlternative dispute resolutionAlternative Dispute Resolution includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. ADR basically is an alternative to a formal court hearing or litigation...
- Animal Rules
- Antitrust Rules
- Art Rules
- Aviation Rules
- BankruptcyBankruptcyBankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....
- Business Rules
- Business organizations
- Case Rules
- Civil Rules
- Company Rules
- Competition Rules
- Computer Rules
- Conflict of Rules
- Constitutional Rules
- Construction Rules
- Consumer Rules
- Contract Rules
- Copyright Rules
- Corporations Rules
- Criminal Rules
- Cryptography Rules
- Cyber Rules
- Custom (Rules)
- Defamation
- Drug control Rules
- Elder Rules
- Employment Rules
- Entertainment Rules
- Environmental Rules
- EvidenceEvidenceEvidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are either presumed to be true, or were themselves proven via evidence, to demonstrate an assertion's truth...
- Family Rules
- Firearm Rules
- Food RulesFood RulesThere are two books with the title Food Rules:*Food Rules: An Eater's Manual, by Michael Pollan*Food Rules! The Stuff You Munch, Its Crunch, Its Punch, and Why You Sometimes Lose Your Lunch...
- Gaming Rules
- Health Rules
- health and safety Rules
- Immigration Rules
- Insurance Rules
- Intellectual property Rules
- International Rules
- Internet Rules
- Labour Rules/Labor Rules
- Martial Rules
- Media Rules
- Military Rules
- Juvenile Rules
- Music Rules
- Nationality Rules
- Obscenity Rules
- Parliamentary Rules
- Patent Rules
- Poverty Rules
- Privacy Rules
- Procedural Rules
- Property Rules
- Public health Rules
- Real EstateReal estateIn general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...
- Securities Rules
- Social Security disability Rules
- Space Rules
- Sports Rules
- Statutory Rules
- Tax Rules
- TortTortA tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a wrong that involves a breach of a civil duty owed to someone else. It is differentiated from a crime, which involves a breach of a duty owed to society in general...
- Trademark Rules
- Transport Rules
- Water Rules