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UNCTAD Investment Dispute Settlement Navigator

Compilation of information about pending and concluded arbitrations from 1987 onwards, provided on the UNCTAD website. ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and other cases are covered. For concluded cases, the information provided includes dates, parties and countries, the type of investment, the legal instrument involved, the arbitration rules/venue, brief details of the decision, the amount sought and the amount awarded. Where possible, links to the full decision are provided. To search the database, click on ‘Show display options’

Nederlandse Grondwet

This website gives an overview of the development of the Dutch Constitution, from the late eighteenth century to the present day, and provides information about pending changes. It includes translations of the current Constitution into English, French, German and Spanish, but most of the content is in Dutch. To find the translations, keep clicking on the links under each article of the current Constitution (‘Huidige Grondwet’).

Database of Federal Statute Names

Free database of popular names of US federal statutes, compiled by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library. The main focus is on names which do not communicate clearly the subject of the legislation, for example the ‘Rankin Act’ and the ‘Serve America Act’. For each statute, the official citations and short title (if any) are given. Each statute title is categorised using the following list of types: Sponsor, Description, Honor, Case, Tribe, Victim, Political Description, Location, Undefined, Award, Abbreviation, Acrostic, Private Law, Institution.

ecoi: European Country of Origin Network

Collection of country-of-origin information intended for use by lawyers and others involved in asylum claims, provided by a department of the Austrian Red Cross. Ecoi.net has a page for each country of the world; each page provides key reports and other documents, national laws translated into English, maps and links to country profiles (by the UN, CIA, BBC and so on). Basic and advanced search facilities are available. The site also includes a blog.

Table of Regnal Years of English Sovereigns

The number of the regnal year is part of the citation for an old English statute; this table gives the exact dates of every regnal year from 1066 up to 1962. It is accompanied by an introduction explaining the various dating systems which have been used in England. The table and introduction have been reproduced from Sweet and Maxwell’s ‘Guide to Law Reports and Statutes’, 4th edition, 1962, and made available online by Harvard Law School Library.

Highway Code

Online version of the Highway Code, on the UK government’s DirectGov website. The Code applies to England, Wales and Scotland. The Introduction includes a link to a page called “The road user and the law”. The site warns that only the Department of Transport’s current printed edition should be used in legal proceedings.

English Reports Table

Alphabetical table of nominate reports giving the corresponding volume numbers in the English Reports, together with each report’s abbreviation and the time period and court that it covers. The table is provided by Lancaster University Library.

Death Penalty Worldwide

This website provides information and analysis relating to death penalty law and practice in around 90 countries. It was established by Professor Sandra Babcock of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Law School's Bluhm Legal Clinic in the US, in partnership with the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The site’s main component is the Death Penalty Database, covering capital offences; treaty ratifications; national and international cases; methods of execution; statistics on death sentences and executions; and other topics.

New Square Chambers: calculator to determine the dates of the legal terms in England and Wales

This facility on the website of New Square Chambers will calculate the dates of the legal terms (court sittings) for the High Court and Court of Appeal from 1972/73 up to 2200/2201. It is accompanied by a Historical Note explaining the use of legal terms from medieval times onwards and by links to the current rules regarding term dates.

LegalCitation.ie

This website makes available OSCOLA Ireland, a citation system for Irish law. It was developed by Irish academics and is based on the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA). The OSCOLA Ireland manual may be downloaded free of charge and there is a quick reference guide and a set of FAQs. The guide covers abbreviations, cases, legislation, books, articles, online sources and other materials; it also gives guidance on presentation, punctuation and cross-referencing. The site's Links page has information about using OSCOLA Ireland with EndNote and Zotero.
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