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Law and legal research in Zambia

Online guide to the law and legal system of Zambia written by Alfred S. Magagula who is an LL.B. student at the University of Swaziland. 2011 update of the guide published on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author provides background information on the history, governmental system, foreign policy, political parties and economy of Zambia. There is an outline of the judicial system and details of Zambian sources of law which include the Constitution, legislation and judicial precedent.

Centre for Criminology

Website of the Centre of Criminology, a research unit at the University of Cape Town's law faculty. Research at the Centre is focused on public safety, criminal justice and crime. Its website gives details of the centre's research and teaching, together with events information.

Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard: Harvard Law School

This website provides access to the research outputs of faculty and students at Harvard Law School, forming part of Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH), an open access repository. DASH contains scholarly articles and student papers which can be searched by author, title, keyword, sponsor and series or browsed by date, author, title and subject. Recent submissions can be accessed from the home page. Records provide bibliographic details with abstracts and a link to the full text.

Natalie Gamble Associates

Website of Natalie Gamble Associates, a UK law firm specialising in fertility and parenting law. The site provides information on the services offered by the firm and news updates on fertility and parenting law. It also has a knowledge centre with guidance on donor conception and co-parenting, surrogacy law, adoption and parental rights; includes information for same-sex couples and transgender people.

Constitutional Court of Ukraine

Official website of the Ukrainian Constitutional Court, with background, historical and organisational information about the Court. Under 'Legal acts', the Constitution, the Law on the Constitutional Court and the rules of procedure are available in English translation, although their titles are in Ukrainian. English-language case summaries are available from 1997 onwards; the Ukrainian version of the site provides the full text of the Court's decisions.

Constitutional Court of Türkiye

Official website of the Turkish Constitutional Court. The site provides news, background, historical and organisational information about the Court. The current and past constitutions, and legislation establishing the Court, are available on the site, together with summaries of judgments. Other features of the site include speeches, the Court's journal and links to related websites. An English version of the site is available, but most of the content is in Turkish.

Judicial Performance Evaluation

The Judicial Performance Evaluation Initiative is a project of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) a national research body based at the University of Denver. The purpose of judicial performance evaluation (JPE) is to help "increase public confidence and assist judges in identifying areas of professional development". This site gives an overview of all state JPE programmes using a clickable map and there are links to states with official JPE programs.

Child Abduction Section

Child Abduction Section of the website of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Includes the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction 1980 (in a range of languages) and a list of countries who have signed or ratified it. Contact details for the relevant government authority in each country are given, along with documentation relating to the Convention and relevant HCCH publications.

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