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Constitutions and Legislation sites Annual Review of Population Law (Harvard) A database of summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and health, women's status and rights, children and adolescents, HIV/AIDS and related topics. Also contains files reproducing the laws from selected countries in the world dealing with these topics. The period covered by the database is 1974 through the present. provide links to the texts of constitutions in English. Provide links to the texts of constitutions in English. Criminal Law Resources on the Internet: Buffalo Criminal Law Center This page provides on-line access to criminal law materials from the United States and throughout the world, including, among other things, criminal codes, criminal procedure codes, and enforcement codes. ECOLEX is operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP and is a comprehensive, global source of information on environmental law. A common gateway to national implementing measures which aims to help facilitate access to information on how directives have been transposed by 22 of the member states (Cyprus, Hungary and Latvia are not included). One of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources. Foreign Primary Law on the Web From the University of Houston, contains links to foreign law gateways. Foreign Trade Information System Contains information on national trade-related legislation and more. International Constitutional Project Provides English translations of and other textual material related to constitutional documents. ICRC: International Implementation Database Covers the implementation of International Humanitarian Law at national level. Legislation Online (OSCE - ODIHR) Covers a variety of topics: human trafficking, gender, elections, terrorism, citizenship, migration, freedom of information, freedom of assembly, etc. Library of Congress Multinational Collections Database The Multinational Collections Database lists items which reprint the laws and regulations of international jurisdictions on a particular legal topic, comparative in nature. Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department. NATLEX contains over 65,000 records covering over 190 countries and over 160 territories and subdivisions, and all efforts are made to keep the database up-to-date. Case-law Websites and Resources Court decisions are rarely translated. The sites below may help you find some case-law from around the world. See also gateways sections below. Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Bodies From the Council of Europe, provides links to constitutional courts from around the world. This website is a guide for researchers and legal practitioners seeking information on Supreme Court decisions from around the World. It will give you access to decisions in 129 countries, or a way of finding them. International Law Reports KZ 199.I6 + Online Reprint some national case-law in translation. International Legal Materials K 1.I663 + Online journal Reprints some national case-law in translation. University of Texas School of Law's Institute of Transnational Law: Foreign Law Translations A database sponsored by the with translations of about 1,000 decisions in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. The majority of cases are from France and Germany; there are some cases from Austria, Israel, and Italy as well. AustLII's new LawCite citator, an international free access case citator. There are over two million cases for which LawCite holds citation records at present. This number is expected to increase very significantly as LawCite develops. It is an international citator, provides citation records for cases decided by courts in at least 50 countries (though with considerably varying coverage. It therefore also includes numerous citations of cases by courts in jurisdictions other than the one in which the case was decided. Lawcite does not include editorial judgments of whether a case was distinguished, reversed, etc by subsequent cases. It concentrates on demonstrating the patterns of case citation, and also provides parallel citations for cases.
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following is a list of resources covering foreign domestic laws,
some site contain primary materials (i.e. legislation and case-law)
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African Human Rights Case Law Analyser A database of jurisprudence of the African Human Rights System. Free access to ALL decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACmHPR) in English and French. Australian Legal Information Institute University of Cambridge: Squire Law Library: Foreign Law Links to major websites and portals plus an A-Z country list.
Canada's main source of free access to primary legal material.
Legal information from Commonwealth countries.
U.S. legal materials with some world-wide links.
The law librarians at the Cornell Law Library are creating this compilation of United States and International legal resources to enhance access to and awareness of these materials in their varied formats. Free, independent and non-profit access to Cypriot Law. Free access to French Law from the l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, as well as France this site covers the 55 states that are also members of L'OIF. In French only. FindLaw: International Resources A U.S. Legal portal - the link above connects to the portals information on countries other than the U.S. FLARE is a collaboration between the major libraries collecting law in the United Kingdom: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Bodleian Law Library, Squire Law Library, British Library, and School of Oriental and African Studies. It is working to improve the coverage and accessibility of foreign legal materials at the national level and to raise expertise in their use. It produces a number of legal research guides plus a Union List of holdings of European Legal Gazettes in major research libraries. A collaborative Internet gateway to the holdings of foreign, international and comparative law in UK universities and national libraries. Provides information on both the State and Federal legal systems, sorted by Jurisdiction and topic. There is Legislation, Courts, Government Departments, legal institutions and the other resources that lawyers in Australia use. Includes German Statutes in English Translation, judgments, bibliographies etc. An electronic publication of the Law Library of Congress, is intended for those who have an interest in legal developments from around the world. Official gazettes by country, School of Information, University of Michigan. GLIN: Global Information Network The Law Library of Congress Global Legal Information Network is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies etc.
Extensive list of foreign law portals and websites. Comprehensive searchable legal portal for web resources, covers 142 individual jurisdictions. Intute: Individual Jurisdictions. Covers over 70 primary practice areas which are further broken down into 130 additional areas. Each subject is then divided by international and then country by country.
Provides free access to primary legal materials from Hong Kong (and some publicly available secondary materials). Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Research Guides Provides guides by jurisdiction including Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, UK, US and Public International law Intute: Law: Individual Jurisdictions A respected web portal that provides free access to high-quality internet resources of benefit to education and research. Internet Legal Research Group: Global Index A web directory organized by country. Internet Legal Research Group: Law Resources by Nation Another section of the Internet Legal Research Group's web portal. Jurist is a legal news and research site from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The virtual legal library that compiles the most important legislation of Latin America in one single place, allowing direct access to legislation, free of charge to the user. In this Web Site you will find the principal laws, codes and decrees of 20 Latin American countries. Current to June 15, 2005, indexes over 7000 law reform materials from common law jurisdictions around the world from the British Colombia Law Institute. Law Reform Agencies and similar Bodies A list of Law reform bodies and agencies from around the world from Norwich Law School, University of East Anglia. Law Library Of Congress: Multinational Reference Contains sections with links: on constitution; executive; judicial, legislative; legal guides and general sources. Legal Resource Centre (South Africa) Contains judgements & case related documents plus other resources.
An alphabetical list of legal links for countries provided by the US Library of Congress. New York University Law Library Foreign law collections by jurisdictions. The NLII provides free Internet access to Nigerian legal materials.
Free access to legal information in New Zealand
Provided by the University of the South Pacific.
Free access to legal information in South Africa. About the Law Collection at the School of African and Oriental Studies plus links by country or region, a section on Islamic law and legal research guides. Washburn University foreign and international law web. Links to over 60 countries providing links to law firms, courts and cases, legislation and organisations. World Legal Resource Center: Law Moose Provides a search engine plus an A-Z list of countries.
Free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility. Over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries are included containing case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, etc. South African Legal resources including news, judgments, human rights, Law Commission. Zambi Legal Information Institute. Gateways by Subject (covering legislation, codes, cases and other aspects of legal information) Foreign Law: Subject Collections on the Web by Charlotte Bynum A guide providing links to various legal subject collections on the web. Baker and Mackenzie Doing Business in... Several of Baker & McKenzie's offices produce these guides to help companies understand and navigate the economic, legal and regulatory structures of emerging countries and regions. The Doing Business Law Library is a free online collection of business laws and regulations. The site links to official government sources wherever possible. Translations are not official unless indicated otherwise. Nationality Laws of European States and Territories Contains the nationality and citizenship laws of 46 European countries in vernacular. Francophone Constitutional Law Constitutional law in the Francophone countries is well served by the website hosted by ACCPUF, the Association of Constitutional Courts Sharing Usage of the French Language. They cover the constitutional law of over 40 states. Exclusively in French, the site features news, constitutions, legislation, court decisions, and articles on the constitutional systems of the various countries. Access is by keyword searching, subject searching, or by country. Annual Review of Population Law (Harvard) A database of summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and health, women's status and rights, children and adolescents, HIV/AIDS and related topics. Also contains files reproducing the laws from selected countries in the world dealing with these topics. The period covered by the database is 1974 through the present. Criminal Law Resources on the Internet: Buffalo Criminal Law Center This page provides on-line access to criminal law materials from the United States and throughout the world, including, among other things, criminal codes, criminal procedure codes, and enforcement codes. ECOLEX is operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP and is a comprehensive, global source of information on environmental law. One of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources. Foreign Trade Information System Contains information on national trade-related legislation and more. ICRC: International Implementation Database Covers the implementation of International Humanitarian Law at national level. Legislation Online (OSCE - ODIHR) Covers a variety of topics: human trafficking, gender, elections, terrorism, citizenship, migration, freedom of information, freedom of assembly, etc. Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department. NATLEX contains over 65,000 records covering over 190 countries and over 160 territories and subdivisions, and all efforts are made to keep the database up-to-date. WHO International Digest of Health Legislation The International Digest of Health Legislation contains a selection of national and international health legislation. Texts of legislation are summarized in English or mentioned by their title. Where possible, links are provided to other websites that contain full texts of the legislation in question. You can query the database by: selecting a country; selecting a subject; selecting a volume; selecting an issue; looking for a specific keyword. |
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