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Court Portal

The Court Portal is administered by the Romanian Ministry of Justice. It provides access to Romanian courts' websites, contact details and other information, including hearing lists and selected decisions. All available decisions can be accessed using the separate Jurisprudenţă search facility. Courts can be identified using a judicial map, a list of courts organised by type, or an address search.  Guide to using the courts are provided. The site is in Romanian only.

Constitution Annotated

Website of the "Constitution Annotated" ("Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation"), a guide to interpretation of the US Constitution, provided by the Library of Congress. The site includes a searchable table of cases, Supreme Court decisions overruled by subsequent decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices and other resources compiled by the Congressional Research Service. A complete, searchable copy of the Constitution is also given on the site. 

How to Find Free Case Law Online

This is a Law Library of Congress research guide providing guidance on using the internet to identify free US cases. The guide was written in 2018 (and updated in 2019) by Barbara Bavis, Bibliographic and Research Instruction Librarian,  and Robert Brammer, Senior Legal Information Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. The guide focuses on Google Scholar, CourtListener, FindLaw, Justia, and the Public Library of Law (PLoL) website.

ICLR: Knowledge

The ICLR (Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales) is a legal publisher that produces The Law Reports, The Weekly Law Reports, The Industrial Cases Reports and other law reports. The Knowledge section of its website provides introductory information about various aspects of case law and legislation, including neutral citations, the difference between a law report and a transcript, and the publication of legislation. There is also has a glossary of legal terms and an 'Ask a Question  feature. 

New Zealand's Lost Cases

New Zealand's Lost Cases is a project located at the Victoria University of Wellington, which involves the identification and collation of early New Zealand cases from newspapers, manuscript collections, archives and judges notebooks.  The site currently holds details of all Supreme Court and Court of Appeal cases for the period 1842-1869, along with information on the sources used. The Cases database can be searched by keyword or using an advanced search option; most entries include transcripts of the original source. 

German Law Archive

Website of the German Law Archive which publishes cases, statutes, literature and bibliographies on German law in English its aim being to make German law accessible to any interested users. There is a selection of German legislation along with selected judgements of the Constitutional Court, Federal Court of Justice and higher regional courts. An extensive bibliography of titles on German law in English arranged by legal subject is also given on the site.

Tonga Primary Materials

This PacLII website provides access to a range of full text primary legal materials for Tonga including judgements, legislation, the Constitution and other court related information such as rules and practice directions. There are also links to other Tonga legal sites. PacLII is a joint initiative between the University of the South Pacific and the Australasian Legal Information Institute.

Researching Third-Party Funding in Investor-State Dispute Settlements

This guide looks at how third-party funding works in the investment arbitration setting. It is written by Sherry Xin Chen who is legal information librarian and lecturer in law at Boston College Law School and Kirrin Hough a U.S. attorney. The guide was published in 2019 (and updated in 2024) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The guide gives an introduction to third-party funding in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) and links to resources providing research and data on the industry.

Supreme Court of Finland

The website of the Supreme Court of Finland provides cases, including a small collection of case summaries in English, procedural guidance, annual reports, statistics and other information. The site is mainly in Finnish or Swedish, but also offers content in Sami, English, French, Russian, German and Estonian.

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