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Corporate Veil Doctrine and its Implications in Offshore Jurisdictions

Online guide to the corporate veil doctrine in offshore jurisdictions written by Veronica Rozenfeld who is a Junior Associate at Capital Legal Services in Baku, Azerbaijan. The guide was published in 2025 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author gives a definition of the corporate veil doctrine as a “cornerstone of corporate law, shielding shareholders from personal liability for the obligations of their companies” and an overview of ‘offshore’ jurisdictions.

Congress.gov: About Treaty Documents

Part of the US congressional website providing all treaty documents submitted to the US Senate from 1975/76 onwards, together with some older treaties. The material can be searched by treaty document number, topic, key word and other criteria. The material can be searched by treaty document number, topic, key word and other criteria; it can also be browsed by session (Congress) or by topic.

Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Website of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH) a global membership body of legal scholars focused on law and the humanities. Research areas cover “legal history, legal theory and jurisprudence, law and cultural studies, law and literature, law and the performing arts, and legal hermeneutics”. The LCH holds annual conferences and publishes a quarterly journal, Law, Culture and the Humanities. The Resources section of the website provides related web links and a bibliography of publications by LCH members.

ICC Forum

Online forum for legal debates regarding issues of international criminal law. The site is used by legal professionals, governments, and scholars. It provides videoed lectures and compilations of information about a range of international criminal law topics, as well as 'Major questions' pages devoted to the thinking of invited experts on key issues. The site may be accessed without an account; however, the user must register for one in order to post on the forum. The forum is run by Dr Richard H. Steinberg of UCLA School of Law.

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The Kluwer Copyright Blog is published by Kluwer Law International and provides information and news on European copyright law. There are articles by lawyers and academics covering the latest legal developments, case law and new publications. All articles can be browsed or searched by keyword and the complete collection can be filtered by date, jurisdiction, contributor or category. Recent articles have looked at copyright and AI policy in the UK in 2025, music streaming debates in 2025, new AI laws in Italy and Kazakhstan and copyright and the arts.

International Law Behind the Headlines

This is a free legal podcast hosted by ASIL (American Society of International Law). The podcast features legal experts and covers a range of international legal issues. Recent episodes have focused on international obligations regarding climate change, peace treaties and the World Trade Organisation in the second Trump administration. The podcast is available monthly and can be accessed on the ASIL website and via Apple and Soundcloud.

Law Archive

Open access repository of preprints, working papers and other material by legal scholars, provided by Yale Law School. The collection covers the law of a range of jurisdictions. It can be browsed by subject and other criteria, and there is a search facility.

Pakistan Constitution

Electronic copy of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan made freely available online by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The Constitution can be viewed in PDF or HTML and is amended up to 2018. There are chapters on fundamental rights, the federation of Pakistan, the judicature and Islamic provisions.

Muslim Family Law Index

Research project based at Syracuse University in the United States, assessing Islamic / Muslim family laws in 53 jurisdictions from the point of view of human rights and the rule of law. The site provides indexes showing the extent of adherence to human/women’s rights and the rule of law. It also makes available an outline of the research methodology, downloadable data, a list of publications and a database of national legislation (free registration required for access to the database).

Critical Legal Collective

The Critical Legal Collective (CLC) is a US-based group of scholars and activists focusing on branches of critical legal theory, including Critical Race Theory, Asian American Legal Scholarship, ClassCrits, Critical Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Theory, eCRT (empirical Critical Race Theory), Indigenous Law and Policy, Jurisprudence of Distribution, LatCrit, Law & Political Economy and Third World Approaches to International Law. The website has brief details of CLC projects concerning academic freedom, constitutional law, critical education, and democracy in higher education institutions.
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