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Centre for Socio-Legal Research

Web pages describing the aims and work of the Centre for Socio-Legal Research based at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Research at the Centre is organised around projects looking at: the operation of the Family Advocate system, the Family Court and welfare system in South Africa. The Centre is also involved in the development of policy initiatives in the areas of family law and welfare. The site provides a staff list with contact information, brief details of activities and publications, and links to other Internet sites relevant to socio-legal studies.

Indigenous Law Resources

A service developed and hosted by AustLII as part of  collaboration with the Council for Aboriginal and the Australian Research Council on Reconciliation and Social Justice in Australia. Provides a collection of primary documents on the subject of  indigenous law, relating particularly to Australia: parliamentary papers, government reports, policy documents, reports and submissions by civil society organisations, documents relating to test cases, and material concerning indigenous advocacy.

Doing Legal Research in Brazil

A comprehensive research guide explaining the legal system in Brazil with bibliographic details of sources and links to materials available on the internet. The guide was written by Monaliza Da Silva, International Legal Fellow at White & Case LLP in New York. The guide was published in 2015 (and updated in 2019) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

German business and commercial laws: guide to translations into English and select auxiliary sources

A bibliographic guide to business and commercial laws in the Federal Republic of Germany, listing English translations, research aids and sources. The guide was written by Dr. Sebastian Omlor who is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Comparative Law at the University of Marburg School of Law in Germany. The guide was published in 2005 (and updated in 2022) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

Guide to the U.S. Federal Legal System: Web-based Public Accessible Sources

An online research guide outlining the structure of the US federal legal system with reference to web based publicly accessible legal sources written by Gretchen Feltes, Reference Librarian/Faculty Services at the New York University School of Law Library. The guide was originally published in 2003 on LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange), the free online web journal for legal information professionals.

Doing legal research in Romania

An online reference and research guide on Romanian law, prepared by Dana Neacsu a lawyer and member of the bar of the State of New York and a reference librarian at Columbia Law School. The guide is arranged in sections describing and linking to relevant sources on the internet. Sections include the Romanian legal system, Romanian primary and secondary legal sources, online sources of legal information, legal organisations such as law libraries, law schools and law firms and a full range of specific topics in Romanian law.

Public International Law

A research guide prepared and updated by staff at Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, Canada. It covers treaties, state practice, cases, UN documents, reference sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries and so on), books and journals. There are also sections on arbitration resources and blogs

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