Website of the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice providing background on the Court including its organisation and jurisdictional functions. There are summaries of decisions, news items and articles along with links to the websites of other official Romanian bodies. The site is presented in Romanian with an overview in English.
Collection of judgments from the highest French-speaking national and regional courts, provided free of charge by AHJUCAF, the Association of Francophone Supreme Courts (L'association des cours judiciaires suprêmes francophones), in partnership with the Université Paris I. As well as individual African, European, South-East Asian and American jurisdictions, Juricaf covers the courts of international organisations such as the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEDAC), OHADA's Cour commune de justice et d'arbitrage, and the Council of Europe.
The Laws and Regulations section of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce website provides access to English translations of Chinese commercial and foreign investment laws and regulations, 1995 onwards. Related announcements and orders and other related policy documents are also accessible from this page.
Database of Taiwanese updated legislation translated into English, provided by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China (Taiwan). The legislation consists of acts, regulations and directions and includes early instruments such as the Land Act of 1930 (as amended); to display the full text of an instrument, click on ‘Article Content’. Taiwanese treaties are available on this website too, from about 1950 onwards; a large proportion are in English, but many of the earlier ones (roughly 1950s to 1970s) have not been translated.
This website provides English translations of the rulings (‘Interpretations’) of the constitutional court, the Council of Grand Justices of the Republic of China / Taiwan. Interpretations are available from 1949 onwards; they are provided by the Taiwanese judicial authority, or Judicial Yuan. The website also has a database of translated laws from about 1990 onwards.
Website monitoring the protection of fundamental rights in Europe, provided by the University of Bologna’s Interdepartmental centre for research in European Communities Law (CIRDCE), the Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation and European Magistrates for Democracy and Freedoms (MEDEL). The site makes available a collection of journal articles, studies and other commentary, under ‘Comments’.
Congress.gov is the official website for United States federal legislative information, launched in September 2012. The service includes bill texts, summary and status information with a timeline feature. The Congressional Record is available from 1989/90 (101st Congress) onwards. There are also member profiles showing legislation sponsored and co-sponsored.
Housing law blog by a group of English solicitors and barristers specialising in welfare law, housing law, landlord and tenant law and public law. The majority of posts are about recent cases; others concern legislation, government policy and other developments. The archives go back to mid-2006. The site includes links to related blogs, news feeds and other web resources
ALEP, based at Stanford Law School in the US, develops law curricula for Afghan universities and produces books and other legal material to support them. The Project’s website has a Publications section which provides freely downloadable textbooks on Afghan and international law (seven in English, three in Dari and two in Pashto). It also makes available English translations of Afghan legislation: the Civil Code, the Commercial Code, and laws collected in statutory supplements to two of the textbooks.
