The Welsh Legal History Society was founded in 1999 to promote interest and research into the history of law in Wales. Contents pages of the Society’s journal and a selection of full text articles are available on the site. There is also a selection of research resources aimed at researchers of Welsh legal history along with a page of links to databases and repositories containing historical legal materials. The site can be viewed in English and Welsh.
Bill of Health is the blog of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School and a forum for health law policy and bioethical issues. The blog highlights new research, legal developments and news in the areas of health law policy, biotechnology and bioethics. Posts are searchable by keyword and are available back to 2012 when the blog was started. A selection of digital symposia present articles on related topics including adoption, microdosing psychedelic drugs, Covid 19 and tort liability and health, disability and work post Covid.
The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law is part of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) and was set up to advance the Rule of Law worldwide. The Bingham Centre’s work covers the following areas: business; citizenship; digital age; justice systems; modern slavery; parliaments and security. The Centre produces reports and discussion papers which are available in full on the site. Details of the Centre’s projects and events are also given along with its work as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Rule of Law.
The SHARIAsource portal is a project of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School providing access to digitized Islamic legal materials. The Portal includes contemporary primary sources including constitutions, legislation and law reports; historical sources including books and legal treatises and special collections of Islamic legal resources produced in collaboration with institutions or scholars of Islamic law. SHARIAsource can be searched by keyword or advanced search or browsed by geographic region, topic (eg.
The Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law was set up as part of Sarajevo University in 1992 to research war crimes, genocide and other crimes that breach international law. The website has information on the Institute’s research projects and publications and can be viewed in Bosnian and English
This is the annotated bibliography section of an article on artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights written by Jootaek Lee who is assistant professor and librarian at Rutgers Law School (Newark). The bibliography was published 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.
The British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) is an organisation dedicated to promoting “comparative legal research and teaching throughout the UK”. Its membership is open to staff of UK universities with areas of research and activities involving comparative law. Along with the Scottish Association of Comparative Law, BACL organises the national reports submitted to the International Congress of Comparative Law. BACL coordinates annual seminars and postgraduate workshops on comparative law. The site contains a blog that posts regular online publications on comparative law.
A research guide provided by the Bodleian Library in Oxford, covering the League of Nations. The guide contains information on the structure of the League of Nations, links to useful resources such as journals and books and a detailed guide to the League of Nations’ documents and publications, including the complicated numbering system of their documents. There is also a comprehensive list of links to archives, personal papers and guides relating the League of Nations. Some of the links and resources are Oxford-specific, but the majority are available for all to use.
Created by law publisher LexisNexis, Law Student Hub provides guidance and development material for law students and trainee lawyers in the UK. It offers proficiency tests and certification for the databases Lexis®Library and Lexis®PSL, provides a guide to surviving law school, and features blog posts, research and reports of interest to law students and trainees. Careers information and legal news are also available, partly through links to external websites.
Online article looking at the law and legal materials of Mauritius written by Professor Rajendra Parsad Gunputh who is Chair of International Comparative Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law and Management at the University of Mauritius. The article was published 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. The author gives background information to the Mauritian legal system and an introduction to the sources of law including the Constitution and legal codes.
