01 CLASS (includes economic inequality, poverty, wealth, legal services for the poor, class discrimination, class processes)

02 COMPARATIVE LAW (globalization, transnationalism, conflicts of law, the rule of law, sovereignty, comparative constitutionalism)

03 CONSTITUTIONALISM (constitutional drafting and amendment, rights, federalism, interpretation, judicial review, civil liberties, voting rights, rights consciousness, free speech, separation of powers)

04 COURTS (includes court-centered research, small claims courts, trial-level courts, administrative courts, military courts, appeals courts, constitutional/supreme courts, comparative analysis of courts, international tribunals, special courts)

05 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (criminal justice, specific crimes, victims, deterrence, drugs/narcotics, white collar crime, defendants' rights, criminal procedure, juvenile justice, prisons, sentencing, death penalty, plea bargaining, probation, corrections)

06 CULTURAL STUDIES (legal ethnography, representation, identity, postmodernism, hermeneutics, law and literature, law and the humanities, linguistics, semiotics, epistemology, narrative, legal consciousness, pluralism, time)

07 DISPUTES AND NEGOTIATION (restorative justice, Alternative Dispute Resolution, mediation, arbitration, dispute resolution outside of courts generally)

08 ECONOMIC LAW (insurance, torts, takings, bankruptcy, antitrust, corporations, contracts, markets, securities, tax, property, intellectual property, payment systems)

09 FAMILY (marriage, children, youth, parents, parenting, divorce, separation, domestic violence)

10 GENDER (feminist theory, women's rights, sexuality, femininities, masculinities, abortion, the body, rape/sexual violence)

11 HEALTH AND MEDICINE (public health, ethics, biotechnology, disease, mental health, AIDS, alcohol/drugs/narcotics, injury, malpractice)

12 HISTORY (legal history, comparative history, constitutional history, history of theory)

13 INTERNATIONAL LAW (human rights, terrorism, NGOs, the UN, European Union, NATO, military alliances, immigration, international criminal court, WTO, international trade, IMF/World Bank, development, war crimes)

14 JUDGES (judicial careers, judicial selection, judicial independence, discretion, trial judges, appeals judges, judicial training)

15 JURIES/LAY PARTICIPATION (jury selection, jury deliberation, lay assessors, jury trials, mixed tribunals)

16 JUSTICE (social justice, economic justice, fairness, distributive justice, procedural justice, injustice, access to justice)

17 LABOR (work, professions, employment, unions, labor law, workplace discrimination, occupational safety)

18 LAWYERS (ethics, professionalism, legal profession, government lawyers, legal services, prosecutors, legal education, legal careers, cause lawyering)

19 POPULAR CULTURE (newspapers, film, television, fiction, true crime, representation)

20 PUBLIC OPINION (popular attitudes about law, public legitimacy of legal institutions, voting behavior, surveys of law-related attitudes)

21 QUEER THEORY (gay studies, gay rights, sexual orientation, same-sex marriage, transgender, comparative gay rights)

22 RACE AND ETHNICITY (critical race theory, multiculturalism, affirmative action, discrimination, ethnicity, native peoples, indigenous legal cultures)

23 REGULATION AND ORGANIZATIONS (administrative law, self-regulation, discretion, state agencies, regulatory cultures)

24 RELIGION (comparative studies, religious law, cosmology, freedom of, establishment of, blasphemy, discrimination)

25 RULE OF LAW (democratic institutions, legal security, legal infrastructure, legal transplantation)

26 TECHNOLOGY (cyberlaw, surveillance, scientific evidence, environment, risk)

27 THE STATE (administrative state, sovereignty, downsizing, welfare state)

28 THEORY (theories of justice, critical legal studies, liberal theory, democratic theory, adversarial legalism, responsive law, Marxism)

29 TRIALS (evidence, expert witnesses, political trials, adversarial or inquisitorial systems, procedure)