Blog by law lecturer, consultant and non-practising barrister Carl Gardner, who is based in London. Provides commentary on legal developments in their political and social context, mainly focusing on public, constitutional, human rights and European law.
Subscription database providing access to legislation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine. Legislation can be searched by country, subject, legislation type and date. An introduction and contents page is made freely available for each document with the full text for subscribers only.
Juris Diversitas is an association for the study of legal mixtures and movements. Its President is Sean Patrick Donlan from the University of Limerick in Ireland. The association has developed an interdisciplinary approach to comparative law, encompassing anthropology, geography, history, philosophy and sociology in relation to law. The website has a blog and gives information about the association’s publications, projects and events.
The Scottish Constitutional Futures Forum (SCFF) was set up by academics from five Scottish universities to facilitate discussion of Scotland's constitutional future and to promote public understanding of the issues involved. The SCFF website hosts a blog with posts by a range of experts, mostly academics in law, from Scotland and elsewhere; an RSS feed is available for new blog posts.The Resources section of the website provides a bibliography (under ‘Useful Publications’), a set of links and a timeline of events from May 2007 up to the independence referendum of September 2014.
Blog by Alan Trench, Professor of Politics at the University of Ulster, about devolution in the UK. Includes numerous posts on the Scottish independence referendum of 2014. Provides a briefing called ‘Devolution: the basics’ as well as information about the West Lothian Question, the Barnett Formula and the Sewel Convention. The blog features Trench’s Twitter feed and also offers RSS feeds for new blog posts and comments.
This American website hosts a set of more than 40 law blogs edited mainly by academics. Many of the blogs cover particular areas of law, including international and comparative law as well as many aspects of US law, but there are also blogs focusing on legislation, legal education, legal technology and other topics. The Law Professor Blog Network was founded by Paul Caron of Pepperdine University School of Law, together with Joseph A. Hodnicki.
Website of the Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF) the body set up by the Convention Concerning International Carriage by Rail (COTIF) 1980. OTIF is involved with the development of rail transport law including areas such as contracts of carriage for the international carriage of passengers and goods, the carriage of dangerous goods and the removal of obstacles to the crossing of frontiers in international rail transport.
Online guide to the law of Bolivia written by Gonzalo Dávila Maceda who is director of a Bolivian based Legal Counselling Office. The article was published in 2018 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 article provides background information on the organisation of the state and the 2009 Constitution highlighting the different branches of government and the territorial and economic structures of the state.
Website of Travel Law Quarterly (TLQ) which is published by the Leisure Industries Section of the International Bar Association. TLQ is aimed at travel industry professionals, lawyers and students and covers topics such as “travel agency, tour operations, cruise law, air law, timeshare, hotel law as well as the regulation and licensing of the travel industry”. The full journal is available by subscription but TLQ Online, which provides additional content, is freely available on the website.
