Resource guides and directories

Roman Law Resources

Website providing information on Roman law sources and literature and on the teaching and study of Roman law. The site has been developed by Ernest Metzger at the Centre for the Study of the Civil Law Tradition, University of Aberdeen. Materials include collections of primary and secondary full text sources on Roman and civil law and links to the full-text online versions of Justinian's Digest and Palingenesia of Latin Laws. The site features a bulletin board, links to legal journals in the field, bibliographies, portals, projects and teaching materials.

Lex Mercatoria

A gateway to web resources for international commercial law, with some additional coverage of other areas of law and of information technology. The service is a collaborative project by the Law Faculty of the University of Tromso, Norway, the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace University School of Law, US, and the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo, Norway. Lex Mercatoria presents links to conventions, model laws, rules, commentary and other documents available on the web.

AdmiraltyLaw.com

A website developed by Giaschi and Margolis (Barristers and Solicitors in Vancouver, Canada) providing extensive links to maritime law and admiralty law resources on the internet. The site's research archive arranges materials under topic headings such as carriage of goods, admiralty practice, collisions, marine insurance, offshore oil and gas and pollution providing access to cases, statutes, articles and presentations. The emphasis is on Canadian law throughout. The site has a text search engine with boolean searching facilities.

Globelaw

The Globelaw website provides resources concerning international environmental law and transnational litigation. It is run by the international and environmental law practitioner Duncan Currie and features papers, articles and presentations by him, together with a few cases and links to treaties and other materials on the web. The site includes introductions to subjects including oceans, climate, biodiversity and biosafety and nuclear power.

British Employment Law

Internet site dedicated to UK employment law materials and matters, developed by DiscLaw Publishing Ltd and designed for employers, employees, lawyers and other professionals. The site is divided into a professional area with chargeable password access providing indexed and annotated copies of relevant legislation, forms and commentary by employment law experts and a free area with extracts from and index to the full service. The free section also features a service for locating UK solicitors with employment law expertise.

Infolaw

The Infolaw service, produced by legal publishing consultant Nick Holmes, provides a gateway to the UK legal web. The 'Lawfinder' section provides free access to legal resources by subject or by jurisdiction, and a directory of legal services and links to law blogs. The site also sells precedents and provides Continuing Professional Development for practitioners, for a fee.

Guide to Law Online

The Guide to Law Online, developed by the Law Library of Congress in the US, is a global directory of websites concerned with law and government. It focuses on sites of interest to legal researchers and provides links and some annotations. The guide is arranged by jurisdiction under four main headings: International, US Federal, US States and Territories and Nations (of the world - Afghanistan to Zimbabwe).

American Legal Ethics Library

The American Legal Ethics Library has been developed by Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, and is now under the editorial leadership of W. Bradley Wendel, Associate Professor of Law at Cornell. This digital library contains the US codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis. Contributions are by both practising and academic lawyers.

rightsnet

The rightsnet website is designed to provide up to date welfare rights information and news for advice workers. It is managed by lasa (London Advice Services Alliance) [q.v.]. The site provides a news section, training, policy news, an email discussion group and summaries of the latest welfare benefit and tax credit case law from the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal for subscribers.The Toolkit facility of the site provides links to sites offering legislation, case law, current benefit rates and factsheets.

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