Electronic copy of the 1991 Colombian Constitution made freely available online by the Comparative Constitutions Project at the University of Texas at Austin. The Constitution is provided in PDF and is amended up to 2015. There are chapters on fundamental rights, the organisation of the state and the role of the executive, legislative and judicial branches.
International arbitration blog compiled by law firm Baker McKenzie and made freely available online. The blog has global arbitration news stories that can be browsed by region or topic. Other features include a calendar of upcoming arbitration events and a comparative chart of international arbitration rules. This enables cross checking of individual clauses across a range of arbitration rules. Copies of the Baker McKenzie International Arbitration Yearbook can be viewed on the blog providing legislative and case law updates from each jurisdiction.
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.
Administrative Law in the Common Law World (Admin Law Blog) is a group blog edited by legal academics Farrah Ahmed, Kate Glover Berger, Swati Jhaveri, Joe Tomlinson and Julian R Murphy. Posts date from March 2017 and can be browsed or searched by keyword. Recent posts have looked at challenges to the royal prerogative, constitutional avoidance and judicial review. There are also regular book reviews.
The Advocate’s Gateway (TAG) is an independent organisation, overseen by a management committee of lawyers and other professionals, providing free guidance on communicating with vulnerable witnesses and defendants. The toolkits are aimed at legal practitioners and focus on maintaining ethical and professional standards when questioning vulnerable people in justice settings.
Website of the Iran Central Bar Association which is the largest bar association in Iran and represents lawyers in Tehran. The site includes a directory of members, news items, details of the Board of Directors and minutes of meetings. The site is available in Persian only.
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 Global Terrorism Database is hosted by the University of Maryland and provides information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 to 2020. The database can be searched or browsed by date, country, perpetrator and by type of weapon or target. Results are shown on a graph and entries include details of who carried out the attack, method used, a summary of the incident and sources of information.
Case database launched by The National Archives in April 2022. Covers cases from the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal, the England and Wales High Court and various tribunals. At the time of writing, the court judgments go back to 2003 and the tribunal decisions (as a rule) to 2016. Basic and advanced search facilities are available. Cases may be downloaded in pdf or xml format.
Law blog by Dr Eoin O’Dell, Fellow and Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin law school. Covers topics including contract, restitution, freedom of expression, media, intellectual property and IT/internet law. Discusses newsworthy Irish law matters, but is otherwise not confined to writing about the law of O’Dell’s home jurisdiction.
