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Law journals: submissions and ranking

Online database providing information on more than 1500 legal journals. The database is compiled by John Doyle of the Law Library at the Washington and Lee University, School of Law in the United States. The journals can be organised by country and subject such as administrative law, banking law, constitutional law, family law, economics and the law, insurance law, human rights and legal history. Journals can be ranked by other criteria such as whether the journal is peer reviewed or student edited and whether it is available online or in printed versions.

UNILEX

UNILEX is a browsable database produced by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). It contains case law and bibliographies relating to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. The text of each instrument is provided, along with a list of participating countries. The cases are arranged by date, country, arbitral award and by article and issues.

Minority Rights Information System

Website of the Minority Rights Information System (MIRIS), hosted by the European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC), a research institute established in Italy in 1992. The database provides information on the implementation of minority rights in the member states of the Council of Europe and includes national legislation and case-law, international treaties and agreements of the UN, Council of Europe and the OSCE, case studies and specific documents on minority groups. Texts are made available in English and the official language of the state concerned.

Chinalawinfo

Chinalawinfo is a subscription database providing Chinese legal information and materials translated into English. The service has been developed by the Legal Information Center at the Peking University Law School. Parts of the website can be accessed freely including Basic Laws which are laws adopted by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee prior to January 1, 2006. An outline of the Chinese legal system, white papers and legal news stories are also made freely available.

EIF Compliance Database

Compilation of studies focusing on the implementation of EU legislation, based at the University of Vienna's Centre for European Integration. The database brings together quantitative academic research concerning the implementation of directives and compliance with EU law.

Supreme Court Database

The Supreme Court Database provides data and analysis on US Supreme Court cases from 1791 to 2024. The Database was created by Harold Spaeth who is Research Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Michigan State and is hosted by the Center for Empirical Research in the Law School at Washington University in St. Louis. The original aim of the database, which was created in the late 1980s, was to "include and classify every single vote by a Supreme Court justice in all argued cases over a five-decade period".

International Humanitarian Law Databases

This part of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) website provides free access to the ICRC's International Humanitarian Law (IHL) databases. There is a treaty database which includes IHL treaties and related documents and lists the states that have signed and/or ratified or acceded to the treaties. It also contains the ICRC commentaries to the four 1949 Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols.

Practical Law Competition

Competition section of the subscription-based Practical Law service. Designed for commercial lawyers and competition specialists, it provides updates, practice notes, checklists, precedents and other resources. UK and EU competitoin law are covered. There is also coverage of EC competition law including EC rules relating to restrictive practices and agreements and national competition laws in various EC member states. Detailed information about the service is made freely available on the site along with the option to register for a free trial.

Canada Patents, 1869-1919

Database of patents issued to Canadian residents and citizens between 1869 and 1919, provided by Library and Archives Canada. Over 190,000 digitised patents are available, searchable by patent number, patent holder, title, year and city, province or state. Results are displayed in summary format with links to the complete scanned image. The resource is available in either English or French.

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