Skip to content
PreLaw Advisor
  • Law school directorySearch and filter every school
  • Compare schoolsUp to four side by side
  • Areas of lawWhat lawyers do, and where it is taught
  • Degrees and program typesJ.D. formats, LL.M. and more
  • Costs and outcomesTuition, employment, bar passage
  • Admissions guideHow an application is put together
  • Application plannerChecklists, essays, deadlines
  • Law schools worldwideSchools in over a hundred countries
  • Data and methodologyWhere every figure comes from

↑↓ to move · Enter to open · Esc to close

Area of law

Consumer Law

Protecting buyers and borrowers from unfair practices.

Find schools with programsAll areas of law

What this area covers

Consumer lawyers deal with deceptive sales practices, unfair lending, debt collection and defective products. They represent individual consumers, the agencies that enforce the law and the businesses that must comply with it.

Also called: Consumer Protection, Consumer Rights.

Typical legal work

  • Defending consumers in debt-collection suits
  • Bringing unfair-practice and lending claims
  • Advising businesses on consumer-protection compliance

Where lawyers work

  • Legal aid and public-interest organizations
  • Consumer protection agencies
  • Law firms of every size

A setting is where you work; an area is what the work is about. The same area is practised in very different settings.

Schools with verified programs

A school is listed here only when its own website names a concentration, certificate, clinic, center or field placement in Consumer Law. Schools are in alphabetical order. The list is not a ranking, and a school that is absent may still teach the subject.

6 schools · 6 clinics

Filter these schools in the directory

Program types counted as evidence: clinics, certificates, concentrations and specializations, centers and institutes, externships and field placements. Joint degrees and advanced degrees are described under Degrees & program types.

Sources

These references informed what the area covers. The description above is PreLaw Advisor’s own and does not reproduce their text.

  1. 1.American Bar Association. Antitrust Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.
  2. 2.American Bar Association. Business Law Section (opens in a new tab) Retrieved Sep 2026.

Description reviewed Sep 2026. Each school program links to the page it was verified against.