AccessToLaw
http://www.accesstolaw.com/
AccessToLaw is a collection of annotated legal links compiled by the Inner Temple Library and made freely available on their website. Resources linked to on the site cover United Kingdom law, Commonwealth countries and other jurisdictions, a selection of legal subjects and general resources. The section covering United Kingdom law includes links to sources of case law, legislation, local government and court information. The collection of broad subject headings includes banking, criminal law, employment law, human rights, international law, planning, property and taxation. The 'General Resources' section has links to legal gateways, journals, newspapers and search engines. The site has a quick search facility and an alphabetical list of all the featured sites.
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Annual Review of Population Law
http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/annual_review/
This website provides a searchable database of information of legislation, court decisions and other official documents from every country in the world, relating to population policy, reproductive health, women's rights, HIV/AIDS and connected topics. The database contains information covering the years 1974 to the present.
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ASIL Insights
http://www.asil.org/insights.htm
Free online newsletter produced by the American Society of International Law. ASIL Insights publishes pieces highlighting developments in international law, aiming to inform decision-makers, the legal profession and the public by means of short articles. The current issue is available together with an archive going back to 1996. It is possible to register on the website for free email delivery or and RSS feed.
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Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Foreign_Law_Research1.htm
Online guide to researching foreign law written by Mary Rumsey who is Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2008 on the Globalex website and is made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author focuses on finding the laws of countries other than the U.S and emphasises statute rather than case law. The guide gives references and links to suggested starting points for research and useful starting points for common legal subjects including family law, immigration, tax, intellectual property, commercial law and transnational litigation. There are strategies for searching library catalogues and information on where to look on subscription databases Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw. The author also suggests key Internet sites and periodical indexes for foreign law.
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Bodleian Law Library research guides
http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/law/guides
Online collection of research guides providing guidance to electronic and printed legal materials compiled by staff at the Bodleian Law Library and made freely available on the website. There are subject guides covering the following legal topics: European Union case law; European Union competition law; human rights law; international law; legal history; Roman law and treaties. There are jurisdiction guides arranged by region including Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, the United Kingdom and Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. These guides provide links to subscription databases and free websites. There is also a section covering multi-jurisdiction resources. A selection of presentations and handouts give guidance to finding particular types of legal materials such as treaties, theses, working papers and UK case law. Some of these guides refer to resources held locally. There is also a guide to citing electronic resources, a link to the Oxford Standard for Citation Of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) and an accompanying tutorial.
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Brooklyn Journal of International Law
http://www.brooklaw.edu/students/journals/bjil.php
Web pages for the print journal, Brooklyn Journal of International Law (ISSN 0740-4824, which is published three times a year by students at the Brooklyn Law School, New York, USA. The editors aim to produce a scholarly publication devoted to various developments in the expanding field of international law, with articles covering topics of interest to academic lawyers and practitioners. Articles consider both general international legal matters and legal issues in individual jurisdictions. The print journal was established in 1975. The website offers contents from volume 22 (1996) onwards and full text content from volume 27 (2001) onwards. The site includes a search engine, subscription and submission information.
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Bulgarian Institute for Legal Development
http://www.bild.net/l_en/?s=1
The Bulgarian Institute for Legal Development is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation with a mission to improve access to legal information by electronic means. The Institute has a strong interest in media, telecommunications, and information law. Some Bulgarian legislation is given in English, as is the Constitution.
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Commonwealth Legal Information Institute 
http://www.commonlii.org/
The Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) is a cooperative legal information initiative led by AustLII (the Australasian Legal Information Institute) providing access to freely available legal materials from all Commonwealth countries. CommonLII contains over 400 databases providing case law, legislation, treaties and law reform reports from more than 50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories. Some of these materials are held by other Legal Information Institutes including AustLII (Australia), BAILII (United Kingdom), CanLII (Canada), CyLaw (Cyprus), HKLII (Hong King), NZLII (New Zealand), PacLII (Pacific Islands) and SAFLII (South Africa). A catalogue of Web links to key legal Websites is available for all Commonwealth countries. Information can be browsed by country or searched using a sophisticated search engine which enables searching within the databases, the Web catalogue and on Google for all Commonwealth countries. There is also a category which covers the Commonwealth as a whole. Links are given to WorldLII and to the other Legal Information Institutes.
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Conditions of Work and Employment Database
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/condtrav/database/index.htm
This legal database is a collection of employment and conditions of employment laws made freely available by the Conditions of Work and Employment Programme (TRAVAIL) at the International Labour Organization (ILO). The database is organised into three sections covering maternity protection, minimum wages and working time. Legislation relating to maternity protection covers maternity leave, protection from discrimination and health protection. The working time database covers overtime, annual leave and part time working and the minimum wages database includes legislation dealing with the level of the minimum wage in the national currency, categories of workers entitled to receive the minimum wage and control mechanisms. It is possible to search the laws in force in ILO member countries, relating to these areas of employment protection, by country, region, subject and keyword. An outline of the law is given along with a link to the full text legislation. Help pages and a database summary for each section are also provided.
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Copyright Watch
http://www.copyright-watch.org/
Website of Copyright Watch, a site providing access to national copyright laws worldwide, established by copyright experts from the Access to Knowledge community. The site is hosted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. National copyright laws are accessed via a drop down menu listing countries included on the site. Each country section has an introduction to the country, details of membership to international organisations such as World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and links to full text national copyright laws. A blog gives news of recent additions to the site and development of copyright laws around the world. Users are invited to suggest laws to include and any updates or corrections needed to the site.
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Criminal law resources on the internet
http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/resource.htm
A collection of links to internet sites providing online access to criminal law materials from the United States (at federal and state levels) and throughout the world. Legal resources linked to include criminal codes, penal codes, criminal procedure codes, enforcement codes and selected court decisions. The service has been developed by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center in the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School. An indication of the language of linked texts is provided. Links to the Penal Law website and a digest of New York State criminal law (also hosted by the Center) and other US and international criminal law links are also available from the site.
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Disability Discrimination Laws Country Index
http://www.dredf.org/international/lawindex.shtml
Online collection of disability discrimination laws from around the world made freely available on the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) Website. The site lists more than 40 countries who have enacted anti-discrimination laws relating to people with disabilities. Most of the laws are given in full but some entries have just the sections relevant to disability discrimination. Translations (sometimes in the form of summaries) are given for non-English materials along with a source for the translation. The site also provides a list of sources for the various laws.
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Eagle-i Service
http://ials.sas.ac.uk/eaglei/eagle-i.htm
Eagle-i is a legal information gateway service developed by the Library at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The service aims to identify, classify and publish comprehensive links to substantive materials and legal-interest resources worldwide. The service includes pull down menus and structured link pages that pinpoint resources and offer them by jurisdiction, organisation, and subject topic. Additional sections provide links to Law Journals and Law Reports, Law Dictionaries and Directories, News, Broadcasting and Publishing resources and internet search tools.
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Finding legal information on the web
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/resources/index.htm
Substantial compilation of annotated links to law-related websites, produced by Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto. Sites have been included on the basis of their usefulness to legal researchers. The links are arranged by area of law, type of organisation or type of material (e.g. legislation); they are then subdivided by jurisdiction. The main emphasis is on Canadian and United States resources, but international law and the law of other jurisdictions are also covered. Primary sources include judicial decisions, legislation and government information. Secondary sources include legal newspapers, directories, reference materials and search engines.
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FLAG Foreign Law Guide
http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/flag/flag.htm
FLAG is a searchable directory of foreign and international law holdings in UK libraries. It helps to identify the best locations for particular materials and so makes foreign and international law more accessible to researchers. The database can be searched by jurisdiction, type of legal literature, and/or region of the UK in which the material is available. The FLAG website also provides background information, reports and other documentation, together with details of database updates. FLAG is hosted at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) in London and its development was financed by the Research Support Libraries Programme. The FLAG project partners are IALS; the Bodleian Law Library, Oxford; the British Library; the School of Oriental and African Studies Library, London; and the Squire Law Library, Cambridge.
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Foreign and international law resources
http://www.law.yale.edu/library/firesources.asp
Online guide to foreign, transnational and international legal resources compiled by the Yale Law School Library and made freely available on the Yale Law School website. The guide includes links to other research guides covering foreign law, European Union resources and international law guides. The foreign law section includes links to comprehensive resources on Africa, China, Europe, India and Latin America. There are also links to international primary and secondary legal sources and to human rights websites, international courts and tribunals and United Nations and treaty sites. Some of the resources linked to are available on subscription
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Foreign and International Law web
http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/
The Foreign and International law web, is a distinctive element in the WashLaw Web service developed by the Washburn University School of Law Library. It aims to provide links to primary foreign and international legal resources, research aids and sites useful to research in these areas of the law. An alphabetical grid provides access to structured links on the site. Site resources are arranged alphabetically by author or organisation responsible, country and occasionally title. The guide can also be interrogated using a site search engine with free text or boolean capabilities.
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Foreign law: subject law collections on the web
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Foreign_Collections1.htm
Online guide to foreign law collections on the Web written by Charlotte Bynum who is assistant director and reference librarian focusing on foreign and international law at the Tulane Law Library. The guide is published on the GlobaLex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The guide recommends selected collections of national laws arranged by subject and provides links and a short introduction to each resource. Subject areas covered include constitutional law, labour laws, maritime/coastal/space laws, competition and consumer laws, criminal laws and intellectual property laws. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2007.
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Gender Law Library
http://www.doingbusiness.org/elibrarydata/elibrary.aspx?libID=1
Website of the Doing Business Gender Law Library. Doing Business is a project of the World Bank that examines the regulatory environment for businesses. The Gender Law Library is a collection of national legal provisions impacting women's economic status in 183 economies. It is possible to browse the entire collection of laws and regulations in the library or limit by region, country or income grouping (low income, high income etc). It is possible to search the laws affecting various types of business activity such as starting a business, getting credit, enforcing contracts, employing women and paying taxes and by types of provision including laws covering family and inheritance, employment law and gender equality. It is also possible to search by type of legislation including Constitutions, international treaties, statutory provisions, decrees or regulations. Records show the relevant section of the legislation and provide a link to the full text document.
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German Case Law Projekt (GLAW)
http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/dfr/index.html
German Case Law (GLAW) provides decisions of German courts, and is entirely in German (no English version). GLAW tries to promote the idea of an information network with translated constitutional court decisions from different national jurisdictions (CourtNet). Also includes Supreme Court international Bulletin (SCiB) via email or HTML.
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Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance
http://www.gala-marketlaw.com/
Website of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) a network of independant law firms with expertise in advertising, marketing and promotion law. The website gives access to GALA's members around the world providing contact details, URLs and profiles of the law firms. Some of the law firms provide in-house articles to download. There are also updates on the advertising and marketing law in each country and a page of legal news.
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Global courts
http://www.globalcourts.com
A gateway to supreme court decisions on the internet, listing links to over 120 national supreme court websites. The site is part of a research project led by Chief Judge Stein Schjølberg of Moss District Court in Norway; it aims to be a worldwide exchange of case law. The court websites are indexed alphabetically by country and region. There is also information about developments around the world in the fields of electronic case filing and electronic court rooms.
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Global Legal Information Network
http://www.glin.gov/search.action
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a searchable online database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, legislative records and legal literature provided by the United States Law Library of Congress with contributions from other governmental agencies and international organisations. GLIN can be searched using a simple keyword search option or the advanced search facility which enables you to specify jurisdiction, date or resource type. Records include bibliographic details and abstracts with full texts (in the original language) available to users in contributing jurisdictions. The subject thesaurus can be browsed separately. Help with searching and using the database is provided on the site.
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Global Legal Monitor
http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?home
The Global Legal Monitor is an online publication of the Law Library of Congress providing information on legal developments from around the world. The journal is being continously updated and can be accessed freely on the Library of Congress website. The Global Legal Monitor is arranged by topic and jurisdiction. The legal subjects covered include attorneys and judges, communications and electronic information, employment law, environmental law, family law, foreign trade and regulation, health law and regulation, human rights, immigration and nationality law, international relations and terrorism. Sources include press reports and official publications. The content of the Global Legal Monitor can also be searched using an advanced search interface.
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GlobaLex
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
GlobaLex is a large collection of legal research guides covering foreign and international law, published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. It is aimed at legal academics, practitioners and librarians. The guides are organised under the following headings: International Law Research; Comparative Law Research; Foreign Law Research; and Tools for Building Foreign, Comparative and International Law Collections. They provide commentary and background information as well as links to key web resources.
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