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.
Collection of Icelandic legislation translated into English, on the website of Iceland’s Ministry of Welfare. About fifty acts and numerous regulations are available, in pdf format, with amendments; topics include employment, equality, health, housing, welfare and social security. A disclaimer warns that the translations are provided for information only.
Edited by Dr. Danny Friedmann, a Hong Kong-based academic, this blog features commentary and information on intellectual property law in China. Includes a set of links to IP laws, regulations and court decisions from China , Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
Official website of the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission, providing up-to-date laws (since 1992) and regulations relating to fair trade, and summaries of decisions made by the Commission since 2008. Also available in Chinese.
This is the official website of the government of Antigua and Barbuda. The site contains general information on the structure of different areas of government, as well as the text of the Constitution. It also makes available a link to PDF files of all the country’s current bills and acts as well as a legislative glossary and statutory instruments. Also available are legal forms for various applications and licenses.
Large free collection of African law materials, including constitutions, legislation, treaties, court decisions, journal articles and some books, together with a news service and networking opportunities. Registration is required, but there is no charge. The Library can be browsed by country, organisation, or journal title, and there are simple and advanced search facilities. For each country, there is a brief description of the legal system, a list of intergovernmental organisations in which it participates and other information.
This site contains the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda, in the Political Database of the Americas, a non-governmental project run by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University in the US. The Constitution includes sections on the rights of the individual, Parliament, Finance, and Public Service.
Collection of statutes of the Cape of Good Hope from 1714 to 1910 made freely available on the Institutional Repository of the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The statutes are provided as PDFs. The collection can be browsed or searched by keyword.
Amendments made to the Constitution of Anguilla in 1990 provided by the UK’s National Archives. It is a free, publicly available full-text document. The amendments mainly constitute changes to the names of official positions, regions and Assembly procedure.
Full text copy of the Czech Constitution made freely available online on the website of the Czech Constitutional Court. The Constitution can be viewed in HTML or downloaded in PDF in English, French, German, Russian and Czech.
