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Ministry of Justice of Rwanda

Website of the Rwandan Ministry of Justice which includes departments providing legal advice and expertise to the Rwandan government, administering public legal aid and monitoring regional and international human rights Instruments ratified by Rwanda. The Official Gazette is published on the site along with a selection of laws. These documents are given in English, French and Kinyarwanda.

Rwanda Bar Association

Website of the Rwanda Bar Association (RBA), the body representing and regulating the legal profession in Rwanda. A list of members is given on the site which includes all practicing advocates and legal interns. Details of the governing council, secretariat and various committees of the RBA are also given along with a link to Rwandan legislation and case law provided on the Judiciary website.

East Africa Law Society

The East Africa Law Society is the regional bar association of East Africa and is comprised of all the national bars in the region including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Burundi ,South Sudan and Ethiopia. The website gives details of council members, news items and information on training and professional development offered to members.

Access to Justice Foundation

Website of the Access to Justice Foundation a national charity that raises funds for organisations that improve access to justice for the most vulnerable in society. Grants are provided to law centres, CABx, legal support trusts and other organisations providing social welfare legal advice and pro bono legal services. The site has details of fund raising events and guidance on organising an event and information on organisations that have received grants.

Refugee Law Initiative

The Refugee Law Initiative (RLI) is an academic centre at the School of Advanced Study, University of London carrying out interdisciplinary research and teaching with a focus on law, policy and practice. The website gives details of courses, consultancy and events, research projects and publications. Information is provided about the RLI's Refugee Law Clinic, which provides pro bono legal advice for refugee clients. There is also a blog on refugee law and forced migration.

Rwanda’s Legal System and Legal Materials

Online guide to the law and legal materials of Rwanda written by Dr. Etienne Mutabazi, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Iringa in Tanzania. The guide was published in 2025 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 gives an overview of Rwanda’s legal history from 1890s through to the 2003 Constitution. There are sections looking at the structure of government, the criminal justice system and sources of legislation.

The Human Right to Development: Definitions, Research and Annotated Bibliography

Online article looking at the right to development of people living in low-income countries written by Jootaek Lee who is associate professor and foreign, comparative, and international law librarian at Rutgers Law School (Newark). The article was published in 2025 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 looks in detail at the UN Declaration on the Right to Development and the Human Rights Council’s Convention on the Right to Development.

Language rights as human rights

Online article written by Stephen May, professor of Māori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. The article focuses on whether speakers of minority languages have the right to maintain and use that language in the public or civic realm including education. The article was published in 2025 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

AfricLaw

Blog created jointly in 2012 by the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights and its Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa. Covers all areas of law relating to Africa, international, regional and national. Contributors include academics, practitioners and students.

Finding the Law of the Micro-States and Small Jurisdictions of Europe

Online guide, written by Andrew Grossman who is a retired U.S. Foreign Service Officer, to finding sources of primary and secondary law for “small jurisdictions” of Europe -defined as “political entities having a population under one million persons”. The guide was published in 2024 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 gives links to academic works on micro-states and to law libraries that hold printed materials on these jurisdictions.

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