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Research guide on transboundary freshwater treaties and other resources

Online guide to international agreements dealing with fresh water written by retired US research librarian Arundhati A. Satkalmi. The guide was published in 2007 (and updated in 2023) on the Globalex website, which is run by the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University. The author gives an introduction to the subject and includes links to major agreements, collections of water treaties, international organisations, international water commissions and to individual articles, bibliographies and judgments.

A Legal Analysis of the Impacts of Administrative Court Decisions on the Validity of Private Law Contracts in Turkish Law

Online article looking at the effects of cancellation decisions made by administrative courts on the validity of private law contracts, written by Vedat Buz, Associate Professor of Civil Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Ankara, and çagdas Evrim Ergün, an associate with Turkish law firm çakmak and a PhD candidate at the University of Ankara. The article was published in the features section of LLRX.com in March 2007.

Sports Lawyers Association

The Sports Lawyers Association (SLA) is a US-based non-profit international professional organisation. Its website has details about the association and its officers, conferences and publications, including The Sports Lawyer Journal and a sports law blog. Some areas of the site are restricted to members only; this includes pages providing specimen contracts and agreements.

Collection Development Policies and Other Basic Tools for Building A Foreign and International Law Collection

Guide to building a foreign and international law collection, by Barbara H. Garavaglia, Librarian Emerita and Former Director of the University of Michigan Law Library, and Seth Quidachay-Swan, Head of Collection Development and Access Services at the University of Michigan Law Library. Available on New York University's Globalex website, it covers the organisation of the foreign law section and of international and transnational material.

Global Warming: a comparative guide to the EU and the US and their approaches to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol

Guide by Deborah Paulus-Jagric, Reference Librarian for Educational Services at New York University Law School Library, updated by Heidi Frostestad Kuehl, Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of Law. Published on New York University's Globalex website and updated periodically, the guide gives background and historical information on the Convention and Protocol, with references and links to printed and online material.

Brief guide to select databases for Spanish-speaking jurisdictions

Guide to the major databases providing primary and secondary legal materials for the Spanish-speaking jurisdictions, written by Dennis Kim-Prieto, a reference librarian at the Rutgers School of Law in New Jersey. The guide was published in 2007 on New York University's Globalex website and updated in 2025 by Lorena Abrodos Arrúa.  It reviews and provides critical evaluations of the Spanish-language materials offered by commercial providers LexisNexis, vLex and Westlaw.

Guide to legal research in Nicaragua

Guide to researching the law of Nicaragua by academic and lawyer Magda Violeta Blandino, updated by Rodrigo Tabada Rodríguez and Ana Carolina Alvarez Gil. Published on New York University's Globalex website, it gives background information on the Constitution and constitutional law in Nicaragua; provides an overview of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government; and covers key sources of law including legislation, codes and treaties.

Boston University School of Law: The Year Books

This database provides a searchable index to, and paraphrase, of the Year Books, which were the law reports of medieval England. The database, compiled by Professor David J. Seipp of Boston University, indexes all year book reports printed in the chronological series for all years between 1268 and 1535. The site also has a list of old printed editions of year books, a list of manuscripts and their locations, and a bibliography (compiled in 2002) of articles and books about the Year Books.

Tax Law Design and Drafting: volumes 1 and 2

Online version of "Tax Law Design and Drafting", edited by Victor Thuronyi, on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) website. The book is published by the IMF and provided in two volumes, published in 1996 and 1998. The site gives access to selected chapters from both volumes, in pdf format. Volume 1 looks at tax laws in developed countries and includes chapters covering the legal framework for taxation, drafting tax legislation, regulation of tax professionals, VAT, excises, tax on buildings and land, taxation of wealth and social security taxation.

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