The European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) is a Vienna-based research centre. Its website provides information about research projects and details of publications including the ECTIL monograph series: the Principles of European Tort Law; Tort and Insurance Law; and the Tort and Insurance Law Yearbook.
The Commission on European Family Law (CEFL) is based at the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law, University of Utrecht. It is made up of European experts in family and comparative law. The aim of CEFL is to further the harmonisation of family law in Europe through the creation of a set of Principles of European Family Law. The site provides organisational and contact information for the Commission, details of conferences and events and links to selected European legislation on family law.
Responsa is a database of Torah literature, available by subscription from Bar Ilan University in Israel. It includes the Bible, the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi, with commentaries; there are works about Jewish law and custom, legal codes and over 80,000 Halachic law decisions. The database is in Hebrew, but the website has English and French interfaces.
This database provides a searchable index to, and paraphrase, of the Year Books, which were the law reports of medieval England. The database, compiled by Professor David J. Seipp of Boston University, indexes all year book reports printed in the chronological series for all years between 1268 and 1535. The site also has a list of old printed editions of year books, a list of manuscripts and their locations, and a bibliography (compiled in 2002) of articles and books about the Year Books.
The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is an initiative of the Law School at Washington University in St. Louis. Designed to increase understanding of civil rights litigation in the United States, it is a collection of US civil rights case documents, focusing on areas such as child welfare, disability rights, immigration, prison conditions, election/voting rights, juvenile institutions, nursing home conditions, public housing and school desegregation.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT) website is a project of O' Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston. It provides digitised versions of legal documents of medieval and early modern England, from the UK National Archives. The documents have been categorised under the following headings: the first legal system 1176-1348; the second legal system; 1348-1529, the third legal system 1529-1649; and the fourth legal system, Commonwealth to George III. They include court rolls, Chancery orders and decrees and itinerant justices' rolls.
Website of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Management (CIPPM) at Bournemouth University, which .carries out postgraduate teaching, policy research and consultancy, with a particular focus on IP aspects of the creative sector and new technology. The CIPPM / Jean Monnet Working Papers series is available on the site, together with abstracts of the Centre's other publications. The Tools section includes the Observatory on DSM Directive Exceptions & Limitations. Details of courses, research projects and events are also provided.
The EUREL website compiles information about the social and legal status of religions in more than 30 European countries, plus Canada.
This online oral history project, by Professor Don Smith of the Sturm College of Law, Denver University, looks at the career of Judge David Edward, a member of the Court of Justice of the European Communities from 1992 to 2004. The project website includes video interviews about his life and work, published papers, pictures and personal memories. There is background information about the project, together with biographical details and speeches. Interview transcripts can be downloaded and articles and papers written by David Edward are available from 1979 onwards.
Website of the Center for Legal and Court Technology (CLCT), a joint project of William & Mary Law School in Virginia and the National Center for State Courts. The site gives details of the CLCT research, conferences and training courses on courtroom technology. It also includes a podcast, 'Exhibit AI', a collection of papers on technological topics, and a monthly cybersecurity newsletter.
