Individual Jurisdictions

NATLEX database

NATLEX is a database of information about national labour, social security and related human rights laws in over 190 countries and more than 160 territories. It is maintained by the International Labour Organization's International Labour Standards Department. The records which make up the database are written by legal professionals; they consist of abstracts and bibliographic details, with links to the full text of the laws where possible. NATLEX can be browsed by country or by subject and has a sophisticated search facility.

SSRN Legal Scholarship Network

The Legal Scholarship Network aims to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information related to law, economics and business; it is a division of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). It is free to join the Network, but subscriptions are payable for some of the services offered. Users of the Network can access research papers, conference papers, pre-print journal articles and other scholarly writings, either in the form of abstracts, or as full-text documents. Authors can submit their abstracts and papers online, for possible publication on the LRN website.

FLAG Foreign Law Guide

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.

Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law

This website gives an introduction to the Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und Internationales Sozialrecht, its staff, Library, teaching and research, in both English and German. Details of the Institute's publications are provided, including contents lists for its journal, "Zeitsschrift für Ausländisches und Internationales Arbeits-und Sozialrecht" (ZIAS), from volume 16 issue 3 (2002) onwards.

International Website Appendix

A large collection of links to international law materials on the internet, compiled by William Slomanson, Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California. Links are classified and arranged alphabetically under an extensive topics index. The site constitutes an appendix to the author's book, Fundamental Perspectives on International Law, 5th ed., Thomson, 2006. As well as the links, it provides the table of contents from the book and updates to the text.

Lexadin

An extensive collection of structured links to world legal information resources on the internet, maintained by Lexadin, the legal technology service based in the Netherlands. The guide offers thousands of links to legal sites in more than 40 countries. The links are organised under the following headings, and subdivided by country: law firms, legislation, law schools, courts and cases, articles and organisations. The site offers users the option to suggest other useful resources under its "add a site" button.

Eagle-i Service

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.

Revenue Law Journal

The Revenue Law Journal (ISSN 1034-7747) is a refereed tax journal with an international focus, established in 1989 by Bond University School of Law, Queensland, Australia. One volume is published each year. The journal is aimed at practitioners, academics and law student. Published articles examine tax matters both in Australia and other individual countries and jurisdictions. The entire series is available free on the web, in Bond University's open access e-repository; articles can be downloaded in pdf format.

Workpermit.com

Workpermit.com is a business specialising in immigration advice and consultancy services since 1988. The website provides access to an organised collection of documents and web links dealing with immigration and nationality law. There is free information dealing with immigration rules, visas and work permits for a range of jurisdictions, particularly UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Immigration news and vidoes are also given along with guidance aimed at employers and employees.

Guide to Law Online

The Guide to Law Online, developed by the Law Library of Congress in the US, is a global directory of websites concerned with law and government. It focuses on sites of interest to legal researchers and provides links and some annotations. The guide is arranged by jurisdiction under four main headings: International, US Federal, US States and Territories and Nations (of the world - Afghanistan to Zimbabwe).

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