The University Law Review Project was set up by FindLaw and the Coalition of Online Journals to provide a free abstract email service. Users can sign up to receive abstracts of new law review articles by email. Individual journals are arranged, and can be browsed, by subject and the site search engine facilitates full text searching of the law journals featured. The journals are also listed by law school.
The Cornell Law Review is a journal devoted to the study and analysis of contemporary legal issues and problems. The Review (formerly the Cornell Law Quarterly) has been published continuously since 1915 and is edited by second- and third-year law students chosen on the basis of their academic standing or by a writing competition. The Review is published 6 times a year by the Cornell Law School, New York. About seven years worth of issues are available online in full text. Subscription information is included and back copies are available from William S. Hein & Co.
Online guide to French legal resources on the Web written by Emmanuel Barthe who is law librarian researcher at French law firm BMH Avocats. The guide was published in 2005 on the Globalex Website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The guide focuses on free French Web-based legal resources aimed at business lawyers and also includes what is not available. There is guidance on the use of search engines for finding French legal documents and the availability of legal research guides and directories.
Website of the Law Society, the body responsible for supporting and representing solicitors in England and Wales. The site provides information about the the organisation and activities of the Law Society, including details of work in the areas of law reform, parliamentary activity and responses to proposed changes in the law. It also provides a copy of the Law Society's Royal Charter, details of products and services for solicitors and further information about practice support, continuing professional development and dealing with complaints.
The Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) is a Minnesota-based non-profit organisation. The LLMC was founded in 1976 to preserve ageing legal and government publications initially in microfiche format and now digitally online. The database has historical materials including statutes, session laws, judicial decisions, administrative regulations, and government reports from jurisdictions around the world. LLMC can be browsed by jurisdiction, date (from the eleventh century), language or type of material or searched by keyword.
Website of Clarity, an international association of lawyers and interested lay people, whose aim is to promote the use of plain language in the legal profession. Clarity run seminars on legal drafting and publishes a journal approximately twice a year, which is presented in PDF format on the site.The journal includes articles, book reviews, news items and a section on practical drafting. Issues are freely available in full-text back to 1997. Other relevant articles also appear on the site along with a booklist and links to the websites of other plain language practitioners.
The Al-Muqtafi database is produced by the Institute of Law at Birzeit University in Palestine. It gives details of all legislation enacted in Palestine since the middle of the nineteenth century. The database can be searched by subject, historical period, date, keyword or type. Records include the title, date, topic, bibliographic details and links to any amendments. A selection of documents are provided in full-text form, mostly in Arabic. Al-Muqtafi also covers court judgments, some of which are available in full, in Arabic.
Forum Historiae Iuris is a legal history journal which is made freely available online by the Law Faculty at Humboldt University in Berlin. The journal includes articles, book reviews, lectures and research news most of which are presented in German. A selection of articles can be viewed in either English, French or Italian and some have an English summary. Articles are arranged by date and historical period including antiquity, middle ages, early modern period and nineteenth to twentieth century. Articles are made available in HTML or PDF formats.
The International Lawyers Network (ILN) has members in more than 60 countries, with expertise in areas such as corporate and commercial law, securities law, taxation, commercial litigation and employment law. The site provides details of members, the ILN bulletin and guides to doing business in Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Singapore, France, Lithuania and Argentina.
Online annotated list of law library organisations compiled by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at D'Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago. Includes international library associations such as the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), regional organisations such as the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries and national groups listed by country.
