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Courtserve Legal Information Centre

The Courtserve Legal Information Centre is a website of Courtel Communications Limited who provide a number of subscription services aimed at legal practitioners including digital delivery of court lists and legal news. A selection of free services can be accessed on the Courtservice site. These include court lists from the Crown Courts, the Royal Courts of Justice, selected County Courts and Employment Tribunal lists. These require free registration. A Directory of Chambers, a Crown Court Directory and a County Court Directory are available on the site.

Researching US Treaties and Agreements

An online legal research guide compiled by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian at UC Berkeley Law Library. The guide was published in the features section of LLRX.com in October 2005 and updates an earlier version which appeared in May 2001.The author provides commentary on web resources, with links, and details of relevant printed materials. The guide gives an introduction to the treaty-making process, looking briefly at international treaties and agreements, US treaties and agreements and their ratification and implementation.

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.

United Nations Documentation: Research Guide: International Law

A research guide produced by the United Nations Dag Hammarskj¸ld Library. The guide covers the work of the United Nations in the field of international law. The section on courts and tribunals covers the International Court of Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the UN Administrative Tribunal.

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.

Online legal information in Denmark, Norway and Sweden

A comprehensive guide tracing the development of online legal databases in the Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The guide has been written by Suzanne Thorpe, Associate Director for Faculty, Research and Instructional services at the University of Minnesota Law Library. The author gives background information to the legal system, details of legal databases and annotated links to online legal information for each country. The guide is in English with references to items in English and Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.

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.

Law of the Pacific Islands

A guide to web-based resources, listing and describing internet sites providing legislation, law reports and government information for the Pacific Island region. The guide has been written by Ruth Bird who is Bodleian Law Librarian at the University of Oxford, Dianne Thompson who is a Librarian at the Legal Services Commission of South Australia and Anna Matich of the ASIC in Brisbane. The guide was published in the features section of LLRX.com in July 2008 and updates previous versions published in October 2000, April 2002 and December 2005.

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