National Survey of State Laws

This database version of Rich Leiter's National Survey of State Laws provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States.

Categories and Topics

Laws by Category
Laws by Topics

Laws by Category

The topics featured in National Survey of State Laws fall into eight general legal categories. Within each category, you will find relevant topics/chapters.

Business and Consumer Laws
- Antitrust - Recently Updated
- Attorneys
- Deceptive trade practices
- Interest rates
- Lemon laws
Criminal Laws
- Capital punishment
- Computer crimes
- Criminal statutes of limitations
- Drunk driving
- Gun control - Recently Updated
- Helmet and selected safety laws for motorcyclists and bicyclists
- Illegal drugs: cocaine
- Illegal drugs: heroin
- Marijuana laws
- Prohibited consensual sexual activity
- Seat belt laws
- Theft of identity
Education Laws
- Compulsory education
- Corporal punishment in public schools
- Prayer in public schools
- Privacy of school records
Employment Laws
- Legal holidays
- Minimum wage
- Restrictive covenants in employment
- Right to work
- Whistleblower statutes
Family Laws
- Abortion - Recently Updated
- Adoption
- Annulment and prohibited marriage
- Child abuse
- Child custody
- Child support guidelines
- Domestic violence
- Grounds for divorce
- Marital property
- Marriage age requirements
- Protective orders
General Civil Laws
- Animal welfare - Recently Updated
- Beer law -- New
- Bullying
- Civil rights
- Civil shoplifting
- Civil statutes of limitations
- Food laws
- Freedom of information acts - Recently Updated
- Gambling
- Legal ages - Recently Updated
- Lost, abandoned, and unclaimed personal property
- Medical records
- Negligence
- Privacy of library records - New
- Right to die: durable power of attorney
- Right to die: euthanasia
- Right to die: living wills
- Stalking
- State lotteries
- Unclaimed Dead Bodies - New
- Voter laws - New
- Wills
Real Estate Laws
- Adverse possession
- Homestead
- Leases and rental agreements
Tax Laws
- Consumer taxes
- Personal income tax - Recently Updated

Laws by Topic

Abortion - *Recently Updated*	Illegal drugs: heroin
Adoption	Interest rates
Adverse possession	Leases and rental agreements
Animal welfare - *Recently Updated*	Legal ages - *Recently Updated*
Annulment and prohibited marriage	Legal holidays
Antitrust - *Recently Updated*	Lemon laws
Attorneys	Lost, abandoned, and unclaimed personal property
Beer law - *New*	Marijuana laws
Bullying	Marital property
Capital punishment	Marriage age requirements
Child abuse	Medical records
Child custody	Minimum wage
Child support guidelines	Negligence
Civil rights	Personal income tax - *Recently Updated*
Civil shoplifting	Prayer in public schools
Civil statutes of limitations	Privacy of library records - *New*
Compulsory education	Privacy of school records
Computer crimes	Prohibited consensual sexual activity
Consumer taxes	Protective orders
Corporal punishment in public schools	Restrictive covenants in employment
Criminal statutes of limitations	Right to die: durable power of attorney
Deceptive trade practices	Right to die: euthanasia
Domestic violence	Right to die: living will
Drunk driving	Right to work
Food laws	Seat belt laws
Freedom of information acts - *Recently Updated*	Stalking
Gambling	State lotteries
Grounds for divorce	Theft of identity
Gun control - *Recently Updated*	Unclaimed dead bodies - *New*
Helmet and selected safety laws for motorcyclist and bicyclist	Voter laws - *New*
Homestead	Whistleblower statutes
Illegal drugs: cocaine	Wills