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Constitution of Spain

English-language version of the Spanish Constitution, on the website of the Spanish Senate. The Constitution was adopted in 1978 and has sections dealing with fundamental rights and duties, the role of the Crown, the Cortes Generales, the Government and the Judiciary. There are also chapters covering the economy and finance, organisation of the state and the Constitutional Court.

InDret

InDret is a peer-reviewed online journal published quarterly by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. Available online from 2000 onwards, it focuses on private law, criminal law, criminology and administrative law. Articles can be browsed by year and issue number, or a list of the most-downloaded articles can be displayed; there is also a search facility. The website can be viewed in English, Spanish or Catalan, but most of the articles are in Spanish and/or Catalan.

Brief guide to select databases for Spanish-speaking jurisdictions

Guide to the major databases providing primary and secondary legal materials for the Spanish-speaking jurisdictions, written by Dennis Kim-Prieto, a reference librarian at the Rutgers School of Law in New Jersey. The guide was published in 2007 on New York University's Globalex website and updated in 2015 by Gloria Orrego Hoyos  It reviews and provides critical evaluations of the Spanish-language materials offered by commercial providers LexisNexis, vLex and Westlaw.

N-Lex

N-Lex provides a single search interface that can be used to search any of the national legislation websites of the EU member states. The search page is available in all 24 EU official languages. When searching by key words, either machine translation or the multilingual Eurovoc thesaurus can be used to translate them. For each state there is also general information about the types of legislation produced and the website to which the N-Lex search interface applies.

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