Website of the United States Senate, the upper chamber of Congress. Provides information about senators and Senate committees.The Legislation and Records section includes schedules and calendars; the Congressional Record from 1989/90 (101st Congress) onwards; and details of Senate votes, ongoing legislation and treaty approvals. The Reference page provides statistics, bibliographies, a glossary and other resources.
The US Supreme Court blog, which offers news and commentary, background information, statistics, videos, a calendar of court activity and links to case documentation. The Plain English section includes a glossary of legal terms, a guide to Supreme Court procedure and an archive of plain English blog posts. Daily email updates are available.
Compilation of research guides, reference sources and links on the subject of US legislative research, put together by the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, DC. Covers legislative history, US government document citations, key publications and much more. Consists predominantly of federal resources, but state legislation is covered too.
An online collection of constitutional documents from Guatemala made freely available on the Political Database of the Americas, hosted by Georgetown University in the United States. This website can be viewed in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. A full-text version of the Constitution of 1985 is provided, incorporating reforms from 1993. The Constitution is provided in Spanish and contains sections on the rights of individuals, citizenship, and the judicial, legislative and executive branches of the government.
A bibliographic essay compiled by Janet Sinder, originally published in Law Library Journal in 2001. The essay is made available via BrooklynWorks, the scholarly repository of Brooklyn Law School. The essay lists sources for researching Irish legal history from the earliest days of the Brehon legal system to the date of publication. Brief explanations of the Irish legal system are provided. The essay is available as a free to download PDF.
This site contains the Constitutions of the Dominican Republic from 1994, 2002, and 2010. These documents have been made publicly available online by the Political Database of the Americas, hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University. This website can be viewed in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The constitutions of the Dominican Republic are provided in Spanish only and contain sections on the rights of individuals, citizenship, the judiciary, and the legislative and executive branches of the government
An online collection of constitutional documents from El Salvador, available in the Political Database of the Americas, hosted by Georgetown University in the United States. This website can be viewed in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. A full-text version of the Constitution of 1983 is provided, incorporating reforms from 2000, 2003 and 2009, and constitutional amendments from 1991 and 1992. The Constitution is provided in Spanish and contains sections on the rights of individuals, and the judicial, legislative and executive branches of the government.
This article, on the 2017 amendments made to the 1982 Constitution of the Republic of Turkey, is written by Serap Yazici who is Professor of Constitutional Law at Istanbul Sehir University. The article was published in 2017 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 has written an earlier guide entitled ‘Guide to Turkish Public Law and Legal Research’ which focuses on the Constitution itself and amendments adopted between 1987 and 2010 (described in a separate record).
Collection of around 600 digitised eighteenth century treatises and pamphlets on English and Scottish law, part of the Hathi Trust Digital Library. The material can be browsed by subject, author, date, place of publication and other criteria, or searched by key word. The Hathi Trust is a partnership of research institutions and libraries working to establish a repository to archive and share their digitised collections.
Online guide to the law and legal materials of Mongolia written by Chris Melville, Erdenedalai (Dalai) Odkhuu and Anthony Woolley of Hogan Lovells (Mongolia) LLP. The guide was published in 2015 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The authors provide an overview and history of the Mongolian legal system highlighting the main sources of law including the Constitution, legislation, international treaties and interpretations of the Supreme Court.
