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Thailand Law Source

A website providing information about the Thai legal system and related topics. The site is maintained by Jonathan Leeds (a Bangkok-based practitioner and an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University) and a small team of academic and professional colleagues. The site hosts the Online Thailand Law Journal publishing a selection of full-text articles considering legal issues in Thailand. The Thailand Law Links section provides a reference point to access legal resources and related services within Thailand.

Elexica

Website offering online legal resources by lawyers for lawyers with content provided by international law firm Simmons & Simmons. Elexica provides legal news, articles, legislative updates and case summaries arranged by legal subject. More detailed reports cover topics including commercial, corporate law, dispute resolution, employment and financial markets. There are regular newsletters and details of events and online training. Free registration is required to access much of the content provided by this site.

Ministry of Law and Justice, India

Official Website for the Government of India's Ministry of Law and Justice. The site explains the work of the Ministry. The section on the Department of Legal Affairs describes the organisational set-up and functions of the Department. The Department of Justice section provides information about the Supreme Court, High Courts and Family Court. The Legislative Department web pages provide information about the Constitution of India, and a Chronological table of acts enacted from 1834 onwards with history of subsequent amendments.

National Conference of State Legislatures

Website for the US National Conference of State Legislatures, an organisation founded in 1975 to represent state interests before Congress, the administration and federal agencies. Membership is made up of US state lawmakers and legislative staff. The site outlines the work and policies of the organisation and features regular news, views and job listings. It describes the work of the NCSL's 12 standing committees which "develop the official policy statements that determine our positions on the wide range of federal actions that affect the states".

All Law

An American portal to legal materials on the Internet created by AIS, Attorney Internet Services. The site offers links to US federal and state resources and international law resources via listings and structured search forms. Links to legal organisations and a topics index are available. The site also features a compilation of links to legal forms, a state attorney database, law school listing, and list of legal support service vendors.

Eagle-i Service

Eagle-i is a legal information gateway service developed by the Library at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The service aims to identify, classify and publish comprehensive links to substantive materials and legal-interest resources worldwide. The service includes pull down menus and structured link pages that pinpoint resources and offer them by jurisdiction, organisation, and subject topic.

Roman Law Resources

Website providing information on Roman law sources and literature and on the teaching and study of Roman law. The site has been developed by Ernest Metzger at the Centre for the Study of the Civil Law Tradition, University of Aberdeen. Materials include collections of primary and secondary full text sources on Roman and civil law and links to the full-text online versions of Justinian's Digest and Palingenesia of Latin Laws. The site features a bulletin board, links to legal journals in the field, bibliographies, portals, projects and teaching materials.

Swiss Institute of Comparative Law

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law (Institut suisse de droit comparé, or ISDC) was established in Lausanne in 1982. Its primary task is to prepare legal opinions in respect of foreign law for the Federal authorities, courts, lawyers and other individuals. It also produces studies in comparative law, holds colloquia and carries out research projects. The Institute has an extensive law library, whose catalogue is available via the website. A set of legal links for countries from Afghanistan to Zambia is available on the Law Online page, annotated in English.

Lex Mercatoria

A gateway to web resources for international commercial law, with some additional coverage of other areas of law and of information technology. The service is a collaborative project by the Law Faculty of the University of Tromso, Norway, the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law, US, and the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo, Norway. Lex Mercatoria presents links to conventions, model laws, rules, commentary and other documents available on the web.

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