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International Law Institute

The International Law Institute is a non-profit research and educational institution based in Washington, DC, USA. It organises training programmes on different aspects of law, including international law, trade law, international development, and the US legal system. A schedule of forthcoming training programmes is available, with details of course content and intended participants and costs. Training topics include evaluation systems, procurement, and legal drafting. An annual orientation course on the US legal system is also publicised.

Charity Law Unit

Web pages of the Charity Law Unit at the School of Law, University of Liverpool. The Unit was established in 1994 to develop research and teaching on charity law in the UK. The site presents details of its research, conferences, courses, seminars and teaching. Lists of recent publications, conference papers, seminar presentations and recent theses are available; a few of these have links to the full text.

LLRX.com

LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Exchange) is a free legal technology e-journal for information professionals specialising in law. It provides resource guides, feature articles and columns on legal research and technology issues. Articles can be browsed by date, author, or subject, and there is a search facility. Many articles focus on US law, but foreign law is also covered, and most of the technology articles are not limited to a particular jurisdiction.

World Law: Portugal

This section of WorldLII's Countries service covers Portugal. A full range of browse and search features are provided. Browsable link collections include materials relating to the Courts, Government, Legislation, Other Indexes, and Parliament with specific subject sections dealing with Infrastructure, Intellectual Property, and Privacy. A series of stored search will automatically query all of the WorldLII catalog or databases. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

World Law: Netherlands

Netherlands section of WorldLII's Countries service. A full range of browse and search features are available on the site. Browse sections highlight links relating to: Courts, Education, Government, Legislation, Other Indexes, Parliament, and Treaties and International Agreements. Additional subject areas include: Foreign Investment, Infrastructure, Intellectual Property and Privacy. A collection of stored searches will automatically search for materials relating to the Netherlands on all of the WorldLII catalog or databases.

World Law: Luxembourg

This section of WorldLII's Countries service covers the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The site offers browse and search facilities including links to Government, Legislation, Other Indexes, Parliament and Intellectual Property sites for Luxembourg. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to Luxembourg on all of the WorldLII catalog or databases. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

World Law: Isle of Man

Section of WorldLII's Countries service covering the Isle of Man. The site offers browse and search facilities to trace Internet resources for the Isle of Man including government, legislation, case law and cyberspace. A stored search will automatically search for materials relating to the Isle of Man on all of the WorldLII catalog or databases. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

World Law: United Kingdom

United Kingdom section of WorldLII's Countries service. A full range of browse and search features are available on the site. Browse sections offer links to resources listed by Jurisdiction and Subject. Specific sections collate links relating to: Courts and Case Law, Education, Government, Law Journals, Law Reform, Lawyers Organisations, Legal History, Legislation, Non-Government Organisation, Parliament, Publishers and Booksellers and Treaties.

Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea

The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) was established in 1984 at the Utrecht University. NILOS is a research institution involved with all issues related to the law of the sea, including conservation of marine natural resources. The site describes the activities of the Institute and its staff, outlining the program of work, research and training projects and consultancy services. Work concentrates particularly on the processes by which a new international law of the sea is formed and national responsibilities for regulation.

SSRN Legal Scholarship Network

The Legal Scholarship Network aims to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information related to law, economics and business; it is a division of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). It is free to join the Network, but subscriptions are payable for some of the services offered. Users of the Network can access research papers, conference papers, pre-print journal articles and other scholarly writings, either in the form of abstracts, or as full-text documents. Authors can submit their abstracts and papers online, for possible publication on the LRN website.

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