Topical Overview
LII topic summaries with links to key primary source material and offnet
references can be accessed through: the following set of broad topic
categories (scroll down), through an alphabetical
listing of topics, and through a searchable index.
Where a topic is said to include certain subtopics the list is intended to illustrate the range of the topic not its limits.
- Law of Commercial Transactions
(including banking, borrowing, contracts, consumer law, landlord-tenant, money, real estate transactions)
- Enterprise Law (including the financing, formation, regulation of business and non-profit entities)
- Law Relating to Particular Activities or Business Sectors
- Property, Natural Resources, the Environment
- Intellectual Property (copyright, patent, trademark and related state law applying to technology, the arts, literature)
- Taxation (federal, state, local)
- Constitutional Law, Individual Rights (including civil liberties and civil rights established by statute, state constitution or international law)
- Family Law (marriage, divorce, custody, death)
- Employment Law (labor law, work place safety, pensions)
- Accident and Injury Compensation and Prevention (torts, workers compensation)
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
- Courts, Court
Procedure, Evidence, Remedies, and Alternatives
- Governmental Organization, Power, and Procedure (administrative law, judicial administration, local government)
- Public Benefits, Health and Human Services (social security, welfare)
- Topics Important to Particular Groups of Individuals
- Practice of Law, Legal Education
- Legal Theory (jurisprudence)
- International, Transnational, Comparative Law