Links to
International Legal Resources
on the Internet
Copyright 1996-2005 Ronald B. Standler
Table of Contents
Introduction
History of Law
International Law
including collections of links to laws of individual nations
European Union
German Law
English Law
Canadian Law
Introduction
This document contains my collection of links to legal resources on the Internet
that I rarely use. I have avoided making a large collection of links, because
webmasters keep changing URLs, which makes any collection of links quickly obsolete.
My main collection of links for U.S. federal and state laws is posted at
www.rbs2.com/lawlinks.html
Legal History Links
Prof. Paul Halsall at Fordham Univ. has a very large
collection of links to legal documents from ancient, medieval,
and modern (i.e., after the year 1500) eras.
Univ. Houston American Legal History links
Prof. Bernard J. Hibbitts
at the Univ. of Pittsburgh Law School, also see his webpage on
connections.
Anthony J.H. Morris, an attorney
in Australia, has a collection of links to legal history webpages.
Yale Univ. Avalon Project has
documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
International Law
Notice: This section is not comprehensive, because I rarely use international law.
International Organizations
International Telecommunication Union
United Nations International Law
foreign nations' copyright statutes (from UNESCO)
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Trade Organization
Collections of Links to
Laws of Many Nations
Univ. Chicago Foreign Law
old links
Cornell Univ. Legal Information Institute
Georgetown Univ.
Harvard Law School
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property
Constitution Finder: links from the University of Richmond School of Law
European Law
Notice: This section is not comprehensive, because I rarely use European law.
European Union homepage
Eur-Lex European Union legal portal
European Patent Office
Univ. Saarbrücken
links to European Union government and European national laws
German Law
German courts make decisions based on the Constitution and Statutes, not on previous court
decisions (i.e., precedent). That is why collections of judicial opinions are not widely used
in Germany.
Webpages in the German language are identified here by text in German, with my translation
given in parentheses.
German Government Websites
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht (The German Constitutional Court)
alternate URL
Der Bundesgerichtshof (The Federal Court of Justice)
Bundesrat (upper house of German Federal Legislature)
Deutscher Bundestag (lower house of German Federal Legislature)
Gesetze (statutes)
Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (German Patent & Trademark Office)
German University Websites
The biggest German university legal website is operated by the University of Saarland.
Freie Univ. Berlin Institut für deutsches und europäisches Wirtschafts-, Wettbewerbs- und Energierecht
Juristische Fakultät Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Uni-Düsseldorf Catalogue of Annotated Legal Links auf deutsch
Univ. Konstanz
Univ. Mannheim Bereichsbibliothek Rechtswissenschaft
Resources Outside of Germany
collections of documents
Univ. Bern (auf deutsch)
Jurisprudentia English-language
translation of the German constitution: 114 page book in Adobe PDF at Universität Bern
Brigham Young Univ. Primary
Documents in English-language translation.
1949-1990 Grundgesetze in
English language.
Univ. Buffalo German Penal Code in English language
Cardiff Law School German Law in English language
Hull Univ. Introduction to German Law,
explanations in English and German.
Univ. College London German judicial decisions translated to English
Univ. Oxford German Law Archive in English language
collections of links
European Union
New York University
U.S. Library of Congress
Words-Worth Links to German laws
in English translation. Website by Robin Stocks.
Commercial Websites on German Law
Aktuelle Gesetze
Bundesministerium der Justiz in Zusammenarbeit mit juris.de
Bundesanzeiger
Jurathek from attorney Michael Hettenbach
LLRX German Legal Research
(in English language) by Rita Exter and Martina Kammer
LLRX German Business and Commercial Laws
(in English language) by Martina Kammer
Makrolog Recht für Deutschland
juristischen Informationen from attorney Markus Baron von Hohenhau
Bundesgesetze
World Legal Information Institute links in English
English Law
Notice: This section is not comprehensive, because I rarely use UK law.
UK Patent Office has information on patents, trademarks, and copyrights
HMSO publishes acts of Parliament and other UK government documents
The Law Society of England and Wales
collections of links
Univ. of Kent links by Sarah Carter
Delia Venables Legal Resources for Lawyers,
arranged by topic
Canadian Law
Notice: This section is not comprehensive, because I rarely use Canadian law.
Canadian Government homepage
Dept. of Justice
Canadian statutes
The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (formerly CanCopy)
collections of links
Univ. of Calgary law library links
Canadian Legal Information Institute links to judicial decisions, etc.
Jurist Canada legal education links
a website by Prof. Bernard J. Hibbitts at the Univ. of Pittsburgh Law School
Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research, by Catherine Best,
a practicing research attorney and adjunct professor at the Univ. of British Columbia
McGill Univ. law library links to
Canadian Courts and Legislatures
University of Toronto law library links
York University law library links
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