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Irish legal history: an overview and guide to the sources

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.

Constitutions of the Dominican Republic

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

Constitution of El Salvador

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.

Constitutional Amendments of 2017: Transition to Presidentialism in Turkey

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).

18th Century Law Books

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.

Overview of the Mongolian Legal System and Laws

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.

FOG Database

The Foreign Official Gazette database (FOG) is a tool for locating collections of official gazettes in major libraries and archives, tracking title changes and looking up other details about particular official gazettes; it does not contain full-text material. FOG covers about 650 titles, from all around the world, held in American libraries or at the UK’s National Archives. The database can be searched by jurisdiction and/or holding institution. FOG is provided by the Centre for Research Libraries, an international consortium founded in 1949 and based in the United States.

Rights in Exile Programme

This website brings together resources to assist lawyers who are representing refugees. The Rights in Exile Programme is run by lawyers and experts in human rights and immigration issues. The site provides access to a range of resources including the UNHCR Protection Manual, contact details of pro bono organisations arranged by country, country of origin information experts and online sources of international case law. There are also resources aimed at refugees including self-help kits to assist with writing Refugee Status Determination Interview statements.

Locating Foreign Civil Codes

Online guide to researching foreign civil codes written by Lyonette Louis-Jacques who is Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School D'Angelo Law Library. The guide was published in August 2016 on LLRX.com. The author explains what a civil code is and provides information on various finding tools to help the legal researcher identify civil codes and guidance on how to use them. The guide refers to both free and subscription sites.

Mecha Justice: When Machines Think Like Lawyers

Online guide to robotics, technology and the law written by Ken Strutin who is Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association. The guide was published in September 2016 on LLRX.com. The author identifies and provides abstracts to books, reports, scholarly articles, organisations and events looking at the future of law and addressing questions such as ‘Can robots be lawers’. Links are provided to full text resources where available. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.

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