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Law and Ethics of Human Rights

Law and Ethics of Human Rights is an annual journal published by academic publisher Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress). Each issue focuses on a particular human rights theme. Abstracts are available on the website; full-text articles are available by subscription or by registering to use the guest access facility.

Water Laws

Water Laws is an online journal published by Smith Partners a Minnesota based law firm specialising in local government and water resources law. Water Laws is made freely available online and provides access to case law, legislation and comment on US (Minnesota in particular) water resources law and policy. Digests of recent decisions on water law from the Minnesota state courts and federal courts are arranged by subject. There are links to Minnesota state laws relating to water resources.

ABA Journal

Online version of the ABA Journal, the journal of the American Bar Association. Members of the ABA can access issues from 2004 to the present. Non-members can access ABA podcasts and view a limited amount of journal content. 

Harvard Law and Policy Review

Website of the Harvard Law and Policy Review, the journal of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS), run by students at Harvard Law School.T he whole series is available on an open access basis, 2007 onwards. The website also provides details of the editorial staff, the board of advisers and submissions policy.  The ACS is an educational organisation of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges and policymakers concerned with promoting progressive law and policy in the United States. 

European Journal of Legal Studies

The European Journal of Legal Studies (EJLS) is an open access peer-reviewed electronic journal covering comparative, international and European law and legal theory.  It was launched by the Law Department of the European University Institute in April 2007. EJLS is a multilingual publication, but a large proportion of the articles are in English. It can be browsed by issue and there is also a search facility.

Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual

Online library of Mexican law books and journals, provided on an open-access basic by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). Journals are accessible from 1990 onwards and over 6,000 Mexican law books are provided. The library can be searched by author or title. The site is mostly in Spanish, but an English interface is available.

InDret

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.

Environmental Law

Environmental Law, a journal produced by the students of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, is available online from volume 36 onwards, together with contents lists from earlier volumes. The related Ninth Circuit Review,  containing case summaries and court opinions from the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, can be accessed from the same website. 

Virginia Law Review

Website of the Virginia Law Review, providing access from volume 93 (2007) onwards. The law review is run by students at the University of Virginia; established in 1913, it is intended for legal scholars, practitioners, the judiciary and students.

Tribal Law Journal

Tribal Law Journal is a publication of the University of New Mexico law school. Established in 1998, it covers the law of indigenous peoples all around the world, but the main focus is Native American tribal law. The entire series is available in the university's online repository, together with a Tribal Courts Handbook for New Mexico, a blog about tribal law and profiles of the laws of ten indigenous nations.

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