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Institute for Information Law

Website of the Institute for Information Law (IViR) a research centre within the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam. The purpose of the IViR is to further the development of information law and research covers freedom of expression, intellectual property law, media law, privacy, broadcasting and advertising law. Details of the Information Law Series of books, published by Kluwer Law International, are given on the site with older volumes made freely available to download. There is also information on individual research projects, lectures and other events held at the Institute.

Centre for People’s Justice

Website of the Centre for People’s Justice an initiative of the University of Liverpool Law School working in partnership with the Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Swansea, Wrexham, Ulster and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London. The Centre is focused on community-led research looking at how law is made and understood by the public. There is information on the academic team and current projects.

Law Archive

Open access repository of preprints, working papers and other material by legal scholars, provided by Yale Law School. The collection covers the law of a range of jurisdictions. It can be browsed by subject and other criteria, and there is a search facility.

Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems

Website of the Institute of Legal Informatics and Judicial Systems (IGSG) which was created in 2019 from the merger of the Institute of Legal Information Theory and Techniques (ITTIG) and the Research Institute on Judicial Systems (IRSIG). IGSG is based in Italy and conducts research on the “relationship between law and information and communication technologies, then on judicial systems, their institutional setting, the organization and interactions with the economic and social environment”.

Rwanda’s Legal System and Legal Materials

Online guide to the law and legal materials of Rwanda written by Dr. Etienne Mutabazi, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Iringa in Tanzania. The guide was published in 2025 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 gives an overview of Rwanda’s legal history from 1890s through to the 2003 Constitution. There are sections looking at the structure of government, the criminal justice system and sources of legislation.

The Human Right to Development: Definitions, Research and Annotated Bibliography

Online article looking at the right to development of people living in low-income countries written by Jootaek Lee who is associate professor and foreign, comparative, and international law librarian at Rutgers Law School (Newark). The article was published in 2025 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 looks in detail at the UN Declaration on the Right to Development and the Human Rights Council’s Convention on the Right to Development.

Language rights as human rights

Online article written by Stephen May, professor of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. The article focuses on whether speakers of minority languages have the right to maintain and use that language in the public or civic realm including education. The article was published in 2025 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

University of Oxford: Law Blogs

This site provides access to the various blogs hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. The blogs cover subjects including border control, criminology, commercial and business law, human rights and family and medical law. Contributors include faculty members, students, specialists and authors from other institutions. Most of the blog posts can be searched by keyword, author or date.

Middle Temple Nano Trainings

Collection of short training videos by Middle Temple Library, a barristers’ library in London, UK. The videos give tips for searching particular law databases, guidance on aspects of legal research and introductions to popular topics such as artificial intelligence. The material is primary designed for members of the library, but others will also benefit.

Burkina Faso: A Bird’s-Eye’s View of the Legal System

Online guide to the legal system of Burkina Faso written by Sâ Benjamin Traoré who is Associate Professor of Law at the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences and a Faculty of Governance, Economics and Social Sciences at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Morocco. The guide was published 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.

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