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Representing Children Worldwide

Representing Children Worldwide (RCW) was a research project of the Yale Law School conducted during 2005 by Clinical Professor Jean Koh Peters. The research is described as being a "global snapshot of legal provisions to guarantee children's right to express views freely in child protective proceedings". The project was concerned with child protection proceedings in the United States and other countries that are signatories to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child (UNCRC). The site provides a summary of the research.

Basic guide to researching foreign law

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 2016 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.

Commonwealth Legal Information Institute

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.

Foreign law: subject law collections on the web

Guide to subject-based foreign law collections on the internet, by Jennifer Allison, on New York University's Globalex website. The guide lists collections of national laws arranged by subject, with annotated links. Subject areas covered include constitutional law, labour laws, maritime/coastal/space laws, competition and consumer laws, criminal laws, technology laws and intellectual property laws.

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.

Social Security Programs Throughout the World

A four volume series covering social security systems in Europe, Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas, produced by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) and the International Social Security Association (ISSA) and made freely available on the SSA Website. This reference work provides summaries of social security systems in individual countries up to 2018/19. The publication has now ceased, but the website links to ISSA country profiles that are still updated.

World Legal Information Institute Catalog: Western Europe

This website is part of the World Legal Information Institute's directory of law websites. Sites are listed by country and category (courts and case law, government, legislation, lawyers and so on), with links. There are also more detailed subject headings, such as Banking and Finance law or Intellectual Property, which vary from country to country. There is a search facility as well. The site is in English.

Religlaw

The Religlaw website is maintained by the Brigham Young University International Center for Law and Religion Studies in Utah. There are links to religion and law news stories, guides to religious freedom and frameworks for law and religion in different jurisdictions.

Animal Legal and Historical Center

The Animal Legal and Historical Center is based at Michigan State University. It provides provides free online access to primary legal materials and guides to the law relating to animals, including animal rights, dog fighting and exotic pets. US laws and cases are arranged by state or subject and there is also information about the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). The emphasis of the site is on US law, but it includes some legal material from other countries.

Disability Discrimination Laws Country Index

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 50 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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