An online guide from Georgetown Law Library identifying online and print resources relating to the form, process and function of Empirical Legal Studies. The guide highlights statistical resources (US, foreign and international) and websites.
An online legal research guide created by Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library. The guide identifies sources relating to empirical legal research, including information on how to locate a range of statistics from government and court websites, both in the USA and internationally.
Reprieve is a London-based charity providing legal representation and assistance for prisoners facing the death penalty and prisoners held beyond the rule of law, for example at Guantanamo Bay; it also investigates and campaigns on issues such as drone attacks and extraordinary rendition. The organisation was founded by human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith. The ‘Our Work’ page of its website provides reports, responses to consultations and other publications, together with information and documentation relating to Reprieve investigations and particular prisoners’ cases.
Qatar Law Forum is an international conference hosted in Doha under the patronage of the Emir of Qatar. It aims to discuss the Rule of Law and related issues of international law and has been convened twice, in 2009 and 2012. The forum’s English website provides links to news articles relating to the forum and also provides documents on the discussions including newsletters, the text of some of the speeches and a discussion paper on the role of ethics in finance. The site also features YouTube clips of the conference and photographs.
Directory of travaux préparatoires (preparatory documents) for treaties, provided by the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. Lists travaux préparatoires that have been published in printed form and/or online. Includes contents pages for many items and has links to some full-text documents. The directory is an ongoing project and new contributions are invited.
Section of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s website describing its human rights work and providing publications and other information. Includes a ratification table covering eight human rights conventions, together with a short summary of each convention. Also has the papers from the 2007 Commonwealth Conference of National Human Rights Institutions.
Aegis campaigns against genocide and crimes against humanity. It is a registered charity in the UK and US and a registered NGO in Rwanda. The Aegis website describes its work and makes available its reports, briefings and other publications, in pdf format. It also has a News page.
Guide to researching the documentation of the League of Nations, by Gabriela Femenia, Foreign and International Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania’s Biddle Law Library. The research guide was published in 2012 (and updated in 2024) on the Globalex website, which is run by the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University. It covers the types of documents produced by the League of Nation and their reference numbers and discusses print, microfilm and electronic sources of these documents.
UK publisher based in Oxford, covering public international law, European law, human rights, constitutional law, legal theory, jurisprudence, UK law and some other areas of law. The website has an online bookshop; it also offers pdf catalogues for scholars, practitioners and international lawyers, as well as a catalogue in e-book format.
Hart is a large independent academic law publisher, based in the UK. It covers UK, European and international law. The Hart website provides an online bookshop and catalogue.
