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VOTA

The VOTA database is produced by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission) and managed in cooperation with the Mexican Electoral Tribunal of the Federal Judiciary (TEPJF). VOTA contains national electoral legislation of Council of Europe member states, covering topics such as universal suffrage, political parties, electoral systems, referendums, voter registration, frequency of elections and polling stations. Materials provided include laws, constitutions and opinions.

CODICES

The CODICES database was created by the European Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission). It provides key judgments from the constitutional courts of European countries, the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union. There is background information on each constitutional court, with details of powers, composition and organisation, as well as basic texts relating to the court. The constitutions of all member states of the Council of Europe and national laws relating to constitutional courts are also given.

Judiciary of Rwanda

Website of the Rwandan judiciary, with information about the court system, court administration, ADR and online case filing. Covers the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, commercial courts, intermediate courts and other courts. Provides the Rwanda Law Reports (in English and Kinyarwanda), unreported decisions (in Kinyarwanda), and cause lists (mostly in Kinyarwanda) for the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, commercial courts and other courts. Unreported decisions can be accessed using the search facility for the Rwanda Law Reports.

ItalgiureWeb

Subscription website consisting of thirty databases of Italian case law, legislation, codes and commentary, provided by the Italian Ministry of Justice. The content is available in Italian only, but the site offers English and French interfaces.

Normattiva

Normattiva (formerly 'Norme in Rete') is an Italian government project to provide free access to Italian legislation. It makes available a database of all Italian legislation published in the Official Gazette from 1861 to the present, in the original version, the current version, or a historical version from a specified date. The Constitution and codes are also provided, as amended, and there is a search engine for regional legislation. The site is entirely in Italian.

Guide to legal research in the Dominican Republic

Online guide to the law and legal materials of the Dominican Republic written by Marisol Florén-Romero who is Assistant Director for Library Services and Foreign & International Law Librarian at Florida International University. The guide was published in 2007 (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. The guide provides background information on the history and legal system of the Dominican Republic.

Fishlex

Fishlex is a database produced by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, an online version of the Coastal State Requirements for Foreign Fishing. It gives details of national legislation relating to foreign fishing in waters under national jurisdiction and of the participation of each country in relevant international agreements. Links to national legislation and international agreements are provided, where available. Fishlex can be searched by country, regional organisation or broad geographical area.

FAOLEX

Gobal database of treaties, laws and regulations concerning food, agriculture and renewable natural resources, provided by the UN's Food and Agriculture OrganizatioN (FAO). Includes bibliographic information, abstracts and links to full-text documents. The site is in English, Arabic, French or Spanish and the data is in either the same languages or in the original language of the document.

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