Legal Index Tree Structures

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Tree Structures
The Encyclopedia of Law is organized in a number of categories (criminal law, civil law, etc.). Each category is further divided into subcategories. Within each subcategory, descriptors are arrayed hierarchically from most general to most specific in up to a number of hierarchical levels. These trees should not be regarded as representing an authoritative subject classification system but rather as arrangements of descriptors for the guidance and convenience of persons who are assigning subject headings to documents or are searching for literature. The trees are not an exhaustive classification of the subject matter but contain only those terms that have been selected for inclusion in the thesaurus. Their structure frequently represents a compromise among the views and needs of particular disciplines and users, in the absence of any single universally accepted arrangement.

Because of the branching structure of the hierarchies, these lists are sometimes referred to as “trees”. Each Legal Index descriptor appears in at least one place in the trees, and may appear in as many additional places as may be appropriate. Those who index articles or catalog books are instructed to find and use the most specificLegal Index descriptor that is available to represent each indexable concept. Accordingly, the reader may consult the trees to find additional subject headings which are more specific than a given heading, and broader headings as well.

Examples:

Topics(499) Business Associations(56)
Negotiable Instruments / Payment Systems(5)

Civil Procedure(38)
Climate Change(5)
Patent Law(13)

Constitutional Law(32)
Commercial Transactions(50)
Professional Responsibility(20)

Contracts(102)
Copyright(38)
Real Estate Transactions(8)

Criminal Law(66)
Corporations(59)
Remedies(51)

Legal Concepts and Skills(12)
Criminal Procedure(37)
Sales(12)

Legal Research(148)
Cyberlaw(3)
Securities(4)

Legal Research by State(44)
Employment Discrimination(2)
Tax Law(179)

Legal Writing(32)
Entertainment Law(32)
Tax – Basic Federal Income Taxation(43)

Property Law(92)
Environmental Law(51)
Tax – Corporate Taxation(32)

Torts(61)
Evidence(32)
Tax – Taxation of Business Entities(50)

Games(5)
Family Law(28)
Tax – Partnership Taxation(36)

2L-3L Upper Level Lesson Topics(664) Federal Courts(1)
Tax – S Corporation Taxation(13)

Accounting(9)
Intellectual Property(66)
Trademark(47)

Administrative Law(31)
International Law(25)
Trial Advocacy(6)

Animal Law(5)
Labor Law(3)
Wills and Trusts(5)

Aviation Law(11)

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Accounting
Administrative Law
Admiralty
Agency
Agriculture Law
Air and Space Law
Animal Law
Arts and Entertainment
Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy Law
Biography
Civil Law
Civil Rights and Discrimination
Commercial Law
Communications Law
Comparative and Foreign Law
Conflict of Laws
Constitutional Law, Generally
Consumer Protection Law
Contracts
Corporations
Courts
Criminal Law and Procedure
Dispute Resolution
Domestic Relations
Economics
Education Law
Elder Law
Employment Practice
Energy and Utilities Law
Environmental Law Estates and Trusts
Evidence
First Amendment
Food and Drug Law
Fourteenth Amendment
Gaming
Government Contracts
Health Law and Policy
Housing Law
Human Rights Law
Immigration Law
Indian and Aboriginal Law
Insurance Law
Intellectual Property Law
International Law
International Trade
Judges
Jurisdiction
Jurisprudence
Juveniles
Labor Law
Land Use Planning
Law and Society
Law Enforcement and Corrections
Law of the Sea
Legal Analysis and Writing
Legal Education
Legal History
Legal Profession
Legal Research and Bibliography
Legislation
Medical Jurisprudence
Military, War and Peace
Motor Vehicles Natural Resources Law
Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law
Organizations
Partnerships
Politics
Practice and Procedure
President/Executive Department
Products Liability
Professional Ethics
Property-Personal and Real
Psychology and Psychiatry
Religion
Remedies
Retirement Security
RICO
Science and Technology
Second Amendment
Secured Transactions
Securities Law
Sexuality and the Law
Social Welfare
Sports
State and Local Government Law
Taxation-Federal Estate and Gift
Taxation-Federal Income
Taxation-State and Local
Taxation-Transnational
Torts
Trade Regulation
Transportation Law
Water Law
Women
Workers’ Compensation Law