Resource guides and directories

Divorcenet

Divorcenet provides free online articles and legal information about divorce in the United States: legislation, judicial opinions, articles and directories of lawyers, arranged by state. It also offers an online divorce facility and a divorce tool-kit. Other topics covered on the site include mediation, insurance, bankruptcy and military divorce. Divorcenet is part of Nolo.com, which developed from a legal self-help publishing project started by two legal aid lawyers in 1971. Nolo is a subsidary of MH Sub I, LLC.

Senior Law

The Senior Law website is produced by US law firm Goldfarb Abrandt & Salzman LLP, who specialise in elder law and the rights of the elderly and disabled. It provides articles covering elder law, elder abuse and neglect, nursing home law, Medicaid information, Medicare and social security information. There is also a directory of links to other US lawyers specialising in elder law.

National Health Law Program

The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) works to improve healthcare for people of low income in the United States. The website has sections covering disability rights, Medicaid eligibility, reproductive health, litigation and enforcement and other areas of the Program's work. It provides issue briefs, court documents, guidance and other materials. There is also a guide for advocates, news and a blog.

Absolvitor : Scots Law Online

Absolvitor is a free Scottish law portal produced by Iain Nisbet, a partner at Govan Law Centre. The home page comprises a blog on up to date legal issues, including archive of previous posts, and links to key Scottish government and legal sites. An Articles page gives full text access to articles on a variety of legal topics specially written for the site. There is a Directory of Scottish law firms searchable by name, location or area of law, and a section aimed at law students giving links to Scottish law schools.

Religlaw

The Religlaw website is maintained by the Brigham Young University International Center for Law and Religion Studies in Utah. There are links to religion and law news stories, guides to religious freedom and frameworks for law and religion in different jurisdictions.

Guide to Russian Federation Law in English: Selection of Sources

Online guide to English-language source materials on Russian law, published on New York University's Globalex website. Written by Lucy Cox, it was last updated in 2014.  Gives bibliographic details for print sources and links to online resources arranged by subject. Covers research and bibliographic guides, legal dictionaries, background texts, compilations of translated legal materials, codes, courts and journals.

Croatian Legal System and Legal Research

Online guide to the Croatian legal system written by Dunja Kuecking who is head of the Center for Legal Research and Documentation at Intellectio Luris a Croatian legal database, Milivoje Zugic a specialist in land registry law and Marija Glibota a legal information specialist at Intellectio Iuris. The guide is published on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

Guide to Caribbean Law Research

Online guide to researching Caribbean law written by Yemisi Dina who is Head of Public Services at the Osgoode Hall Law Library, York University, Ontario in Canada. The guide is published on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author covers all the dependent and independent Caribbean states describing their legal and court systems, sources of legislation and law reports.

Guide to legal research in Costa Rica

Online guide to legal research in Costa Rica written by Roger A. Petersen, a partner with Petersen & Philps of San Jose, Costa Rica in 2005 (updated in 2025) and published on New York University's Globalex website. The author presents a brief history of Costa Rica and background to the structure of government, the Constitution and the judiciary. There are sections on local government, the National Registry, political parties and elections.

Researching South African law

Online guide to researching South African law written by Amanda Barratt and Pamela Snyman who are law librarians at the University of Cape Town Law Library. The guide has been updated by Redson Kapindu who is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Johannesburg. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2018 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The authors give background and historical information to the structure of the state including the Constitution, Parliament and judicial system.

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