List of areas of law

As a field of law a branch of the law is usually referred to.

For the question of when one can speak of a separate field of law, there is no generally accepted definition. Thus, private law and public law are considered as the main areas of law though. But the criminal law, which would actually be assigned to public law, is generally regarded as an independent field of law. Likewise, the labor law, which essentially belongs to private law generally recognized as an independent field of law.

Areas of Law can so far in formal categories, eg according to objective areas of regulation a source of law, but also to areas of the reality of life that are shaped by different sources of law, are differentiated. An example of the latter provides the labor, which draws from various sources of law, but as an object always the one area of ​​life, namely, the dependent work.

Germany

In Germany, the legal areas are currently divided into twenty specialized ombudsmen, not all areas of law associated with a particular specialist Advocacy:

  • Agricultural Law
  • Labour
  • Banking and Capital Markets Law ( Banking Law ( Germany ), Capital Markets)
  • Building and Architects Law ( Construction Law ( Germany ), architects law)
  • Inheritance
  • Family Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Commercial and Corporate Law ( Commercial Law ( Germany ), Corporate Law ( Germany ) )
  • Information Technology Law
  • Insolvency Law
  • Medical Law
  • Rental and condominium law ( tenancy law, condominium law )
  • Social Law
  • Tax law
  • Criminal
  • Transport and forwarding law ( Transport Law ( Germany ), shipping law )
  • Copyright and Media Law ( Copyright, Media Law )
  • Traffic law
  • Insurance Law
  • Administrative Law

It is to create more specialized ombudsmen in the discussion for

  • International economic law,
  • Sports Law and
  • Migration Law.
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