Ministry of Justice section of the UK government website, covering courts, prisons, probation services, civil rights and related matters. Provides research reports and studies, rules and guidance, policy documents and statistics. Offers information to the general public about rights and the law, including legal advice and legal aid; consumer rights; data protection; disability rights; problems in the workplace; and residential property disputes.
Website of the Institute of European and Comparative Private Law (formerly the Observatory of European and Comparative Private Law) at the University of Girona in Spain. Gives an overview of ongoing research - including PhD research - and involvement in international research groups. Has details of courses and events and lists of publications.
Website of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne. Includes details of past and current research projects, publications, seminars and conferences. There is also information about the Centre's Constitution Transformation Network, together with its policy papers and briefs.
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.
The European Legal Studies Institute (ELSI) is a research department of the Faculty of Law at the University of Osnabrück in Germany. It focuses on comparative law and the harmonisation of law within the European Union. The website provides details of research projects and staff of the institute. Publications are available, including the Institute's Research Paper Series. The site can be viewed in English or German.
The European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) is a Vienna-based research centre. Its website provides information about research projects and details of publications including the ECTIL monograph series: the Principles of European Tort Law; Tort and Insurance Law; and the Tort and Insurance Law Yearbook.
The Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) is based at the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law, University of Utrecht. It is made up of European experts in family and comparative law. The aim of CEFL is to further the harmonisation of family law in Europe through the creation of a set of Principles of European Family Law. The site provides organisational and contact information for the Commission, details of conferences and events and links to selected European legislation on family law.
The Inter-American Children's Institute (IIN) is a specialised organisation of the Organization of American States (OAS), focusing on the promotion and protection of children's rights. The website has background information on the IIN, including its statutes and rules of procedure. IIN publications are available and the site also provides information on the Institute's work in the areas of child law, children's rights, combating sexual exploitation and tackling child abduction. The site can be viewed in English or Spanish but some of the content is in Spanish only.
An AustLII database containing almost 150 journal articles, reports and conference papers on the computerisation of legal resources and legal tasks. Subjects covered include legal inferencing systems, retrieval systems, litigation support systems, computerised legal research techniques, standards for legal information, and public policy on access to law. There is also a collection of publications about AustLII. The database can be browsed alphabetically by author or searched by keyword; materials provided date from 1993 to 2020.
Online guide to the law and legal materials of the Dominican Republic written by Marisol Florén-Romero who is Assistant Director for Library Services and Foreign & International Law Librarian at Florida International University. The guide was published in 2007 (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. The guide provides background information on the history and legal system of the Dominican Republic.
