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World Law: Norfolk Island

World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) page for Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia. Provides links to Norfolk Island law sites covering courts, case law, government and legislation. This section of WorldLII was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

N-Lex

N-Lex provides a single search interface that can be used to search any of the national legislation websites of the EU member states. The search page is available in all 24 EU official languages. When searching by key words, either machine translation or the multilingual Eurovoc thesaurus can be used to translate them. For each state there is also general information about the types of legislation produced and the website to which the N-Lex search interface applies.

Research guide to cases and materials on terrorism

Guide to researching the law relating to terrorism, by Andrew Grossman, a retired US Foreign Service Officer and lawyer. The guide was published in 2006 (and updated in 2022) on the Globalex website, which is run by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author provides a definition of terrorism, an introduction to the subject and links to general sources of information including the websites of international organisations, NGOs and universities.

Avalon Project : the Laws of War

Part of the Avalon Project at Yale University Law School, providing free access to treaties and agreements concerned with war. The collection starts with the 1856 Declaration of Paris and goes up to the 1970s; it consists mainly of the Geneva Conventions and documentation from the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907. The documents can be browsed chronologically, or searched by key word.

World Law: Northern Mariana Islands

Page of WorldLII's Countries service containing links to online resources for the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the North Pacific. Includes links covering courts and case law, government sites and legislation. A search facility is also available. This section of WorldLII (the World Legal Information Institute) was developed from work initiated by Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII).

Internet Watch Foundation

Website of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a UK organisation that combats online child abuse. The site has an online facility for the public to report illegal internet content. It also provides information about IWF resources and tools - including an image hashtag list, keywords list and intelligent web crawler - and gives details of the foundation's policy work in the UK, EU and around the world. Part of the site is accessible to members only.

An Introduction to Venezuelan governmental institutions and primary legal sources

Online guide to government and primary legal materials of Venezuela written by Luis Bergolla a J.S.D. candidate Stanford Law School and Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. The guide was published in 2006 (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 author provides background information to Venezuela and descriptions of the various forms of government including the executive, legislative, judicial, citizen and electoral powers.

Introduction to researching South Pacific law

Online guide to South Pacific law written by Peter Murgatroyd who is Information Resource Centre Manager at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Coordinator of the Pacific Environment Information Network (PEIN). The guide was published in 2006 (and updated in 2022) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law.

Equality and Human Rights Commission

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is a UK body which replaced the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) and the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). Its website provides advice relating to discrimination on the grounds of age, disability, gender, race, religion or sexual orientation and gives practical guidance on bringing a discrimination claim. There is a section dealing with rights in settings including employment, shops and services, health and social care, legal services, transport and education.

Antarctic treaty system

Australian government website focusing on the Antarctic Treaty. Includes the text of the treaty and background information on its purpose and history, plus a list of parties. Also includes the Madrid Protocol, which is concerned with environmental protection. References and links are given to the principal instruments and Australian legislation concerning the protection of the Antarctic environment.

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