Droit.org is a legal news portal that brings together news stories from a wide range of websites, publications and legal blogs throughout the world, although the emphasis is on French law and the site is in French only. Droit.org is a member of the Free Access to Law Movement (FALM), which supports free access to legal information. News stories can be viewed by subject - e.g. business, taxation, family, civil, employment, IT and internet law - and by type - e.g.
Europe-wide portal to doctoral theses and some master’s dissertations, most of which are available in full. DART-Europe covers all subjects, including law. Users may search by keyword, or browse by university, country, year or collection. The abstracts and theses/dissertations are in many different European languages, including English. The search interface is in English.
Portal to open access legal research material from the law faculties at twelve leading European universities. Launched in 2014, LERU includes details of more than 45,000 doctoral theses, articles, book chapters, conference papers and other documents, many of which are available to download in full. Users can browse by university or year, or search by key words; search results can be filtered by language, author, year and other criteria.
EThOS is the United Kingdom’s national thesis service, run by the British Library. It has details of thousands of law PhD theses from UK universities (as well as theses in other disciplines). Many of the theses can be downloaded in full and for most of the others there is a digitisation-on-demand service; the charge for digitisation was about £57 at the time of writing. Basic and advanced search facilities are provided. The theses on EThOS date from the 1800s up to the present day.
Online library of more than 150 digitised works from leading French law library Bibliothèque Cujas in Paris. The selected titles cover the medieval period and the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The majority cover the law of France, but 30 are about German law. All the works are searchable by title, author, subject and date; full-text searches are available for some works. All can be browsed by title and filtered by period or subject. They are in pdf format. Most are in French, but some are in Latin or German and the site interface is in French.
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’.
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.
Website created by Engish barrister Geoffrey Hall, formerly editor of the Medical Law Reports. The site is the home of the online law report ‘Medical Litigation Cases’ (MLC), edited by Hall; the series covers medical negligence and related subjects such as coroners, medical product liability, sterilisation and wrongful birth. It also includes news, articles and a page of links. Non-subscribers may read the news items, access the links page and view case lists and article titles, but only subscribers can access full-text law reports and articles.
