Collection of short training videos by Middle Temple Library, a barristers’ library in London, UK. The videos give tips for searching particular law databases, guidance on aspects of legal research and introductions to popular topics such as artificial intelligence. The material is primary designed for members of the library, but others will also benefit.
Created by law publisher LexisNexis, Law Student Hub provides guidance and development material for law students and trainee lawyers in the UK. It offers proficiency tests and certification for the databases Lexis®Library and Lexis®PSL, provides a guide to surviving law school, and features blog posts, research and reports of interest to law students and trainees. Careers information and legal news are also available, partly through links to external websites.
Law PORT is a collection of online, interactive training resources, aimed at postgraduate legal researchers, and made freely available by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). The tutorials are designed to develop legal research and information literacy skills and focus on public international law. Tutorials currently available include an Introduction to OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities) and an overview of the key sources for researching Customary International Law.
Online tutorial provided for students at University of Oxford, Faculty of Law taking the Legal Research & Mooting Skills Programme and made freely available on Faculty of Law web page. The tutorial is organised into three sections providing an introduction to the different types of legal materials, electronic resources and printed resources for legal research. There is guidance on how UK and EU law reports and legislation are prepared, produced and published, information on citing legal references and a link to OSCOLA (Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities).
This webpage provides full text access to the publications of the Timor-Leste Legal Education Project (TLLEP) at Stanford Law School. Included on the site are textbooks on Timorese law on professional responsibility, contract law, constitutional law and criminal law. A series of working papers on the laws of Timor-Leste are also provided. These cover topics such as family law, inheritance law, petroleum law and marriage law. All publications can be freely downloaded in full text (PDF) in English, Tetum and Portuguese.
ALEP, based at Stanford Law School in the US, develops law curricula for Afghan universities and produces books and other legal material to support them. The Project’s website has a Publications section which provides freely downloadable textbooks on Afghan and international law (seven in English, three in Dari and two in Pashto). It also makes available English translations of Afghan legislation: the Civil Code, the Commercial Code, and laws collected in statutory supplements to two of the textbooks.
A collection of teaching materials developed by the UK Centre for Legal Education (UKCLE) as part of their Developing an Islamic law curriculum project are made freely available on the UKCLE website.
Voices of American Law is a collection of teaching materials compiled by the Duke University School of Law. The aim of the project is to assist with the teaching of American constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court. Legal materials relating to a number of important constitutional cases have been made freely available on the site including court documents, opinions, articles, interviews and photographs. Accompanying the documentation is a selection of videos featuring interviews with the parties, their lawyers and the judges who presided in the case.
Website of 1st Amendment Online set up by Adam Samaha, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota Law School. Although the site has not been updated since 2004 it does contain many useful legal materials relating to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and includes cases, historical documents, opinion polls, and primary sources. Important cases concerning the 1st Amendment from the Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court are presented on the site as PDF documents.
A selection of interactive online training packages produced by the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) and made freely available on their website. There are courses covering the following issues: discipline and grievance; managing absence; contracts and written statements; handling redundancy; working parents; bullying and harassment; sexual orientation; religion and belief and age discrimination. The courses feature case studies, exercises and quizzes designed to assess users progress.
