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China Today: Law and Justice

China Today is an online gateway to sources of information about China maintained by InfoPacific Development Inc. (IPD) Canada who are based in Beijing and Shanghai. The Law and Justice page of China Today provides links to a selection of Chinese laws and regulations translated into English, legal news stories and blogs focusing on Chinese law. There are links to sources of intellectual property information, to law and justice in Hong Kong and to other websites giving access to Chinese law.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Gazette

Free online version of the official gazette of Hong Kong, in English and Chinese. The Hong Kong Gazette publishes ordinances, regulations, bills, tenders and official notices. Both the main Gazette and its supplements are available and can be browsed by date or searched by key word. The Gazette is produced by the Printing Department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China.

Chinalawinfo

Chinalawinfo is a subscription database providing Chinese legal information and materials translated into English. The service has been developed by the Legal Information Center at the Peking University Law School. Parts of the website can be accessed freely including Basic Laws which are laws adopted by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee prior to January 1, 2006. An outline of the Chinese legal system, white papers and legal news stories are also made freely available.

beSpacific

Website of beSpacific, a law and technology weblog written by Sabrina I. Pacifici, a law librarian and co-founder of the legal web journal LLRX.com. The site is intended for legal professionals, librarians and researchers and focuses on United States news, providing a digest of legal stories covering "e-government, copyright, privacy, government documents, cybercrime and ID theft, the Patriot Act, and freedom of information." Each story has one or more subject headings and clicking these provides access to other stories within the same subject area eg.

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.

Regulations.gov

Regulations.gov allows US citizens to access and comment upon every final and proposed regulation currently open for consideration in the US government legal newspaper 'The Federal Register'. These cover all aspects of economic, social and political legislation. It is possible to search by document type (such as public submissions, notices or rules), date, agency and docket type. Each entry gives a link to the text of the regulation and submitted comments can be read. Documents can be viewed in full text PDF or HTML.

Government of the Republic of Lithuania

Official website of the Lithuanian Government. This site includes a profile of the Prime Minister and other ministers and links to the various government departments. There is a database of Lithuanian laws and other legal documents going back to 1883. These can be searched by institution document type, date, language and various other parameters. The records provide the full-text of the law in HTML or Word and there are links to related documents. Laws are available in a range of languages but most appear in either English, Russian or Lithuanian.

Costa Rica Law

Established in 1997 by lawyer Roger A. Petersen, this site gives an English-language overview of the law of Costa Rica, with links to legislation (in Spanish). It also covers the economy, politics, demography and other subjects. The information is intended primarily for individuals and businesses with an interest in moving to, or operating in, the country. The Legal Topics section outlines more than twenty subjects, including banking law, civil law, consumer protection, criminal law, immigration, marriage and family law, and working in Costa Rica.

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