Seaching the World Wide Web for Legal Information

Most of the URLs listed below were selected by students enrolled in the Introduction to American Law course.  Students were asked to identify and evaluate useful sites for research about their home countries, or sites of personal use to them in their studies or chosen career paths.

Australia

• Australia Legal Information Centre.  This site is maintained by the World Wide Legal Information Centre, a non-profit corporation from Canada and includes information about the government of Australia as well as links to legal sites.

• Australasian Legal Information Institute.  This is a joint venture of several Australian Universities. The AustLII collection contains full-text databases of the most recent Australian decisions and legislation.

• Law Council of Australia.  This site is maintained by the National Council of Lawyers, Australia's national professional legal organisation, and includes links to other legal sites of interest to Australian lawyers.

Canada

• Canadian Constitutional Documents - This site contains an explanation of Canadian constitutional documents and links to the text of these materials.

• Supreme Court of Canada - Decisions from the Court since 1993 are available on this site jointly sponsored by the Court and the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public at University of Montreal.

• Access to Justice Network, ACJNet - This keyword searchable site provides links to a great variety of Canadian legal resources available on the Internet and is designed for the Canadian public as well as attorneys.

• Legislative materials - ACJNet provides links to federal and provincial legislative materials at this site.

 

• Le Ministere de la Justice home page.  This is the home page of the Sectretary of Justice in France.  The site provides a basic explanantion of the judiciary system in France.  It is a beautiful home page with illustrations taken from museums around the country and includes the text of selected important laws.

• The Senat Home Page - The Senat is one of the houses of the Congress. This server provides information about its present activities including the text of debates, selected reports, a library service and links to other judicial services.  The site also includes information about the composition and functions of the French Senate.  Most information is in French and English.

• The National Assembly - The National Assembly is the second house of the Congress and the most powerful, especially in finacial matters.  The server provides information about its present activities, a library service and links to other judicial servers.

• Conseil Constitutionnel - This court is in charge of the judicial review of laws after their enactment.  The court provides the first interpretation of laws.

• Constitution - This site includes the text of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic in French.

• INFORMACION JURIDICA Y JURISPRUDENCIA - This site is kept by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

• Latin America Government Documents Project - This Cornell Law Library site organizes and describes many Latin American documents appearing on the Internet and contains links to the source servers.

• Mexico - LANIC - The Latin American Networking Information Center (LANIC) at the University of Texas at Austin provides access to academic databases and information services throughout Latin American and includes this site on Mexico.

• Las Constituciones de México y sus Estados - The constitutions of Mexico's states and the federal constitution are available here in Spanish.

 

• Business Monitor - This site  provides access to business information and international trade information including legislation and the full text of articles written by attorneys and other business people; countries covered include The Netherlands, France and the UK.  Legal topics in The Netherlands include Dutch company law, commercial law, property law and competition law in English.

• Law Schools in The Netherlands are linked at this site.  The site also links to law firm home pages.

 

• The Scots Law Site - This site includes links to Scottish Lawyers; short news items from the Scottish Courts provide an introduction to the law of Scotland.

• Glasgow University School of  Law home page with links to information about the law school and links to the other legal sites.

• The Law Society of Scotland home page.

United Kingdom

• Acts of Parliament  Full text of new Public General Acts from 1996 on via Her Majesty's Stationary Office.  Summaries of earlier statutes.

• Statutory Instruments from 1997.  This is the English equivalent of the rules and regulations published in the US in the Federal Register and CFR.

• House of Lords decisions.  The House of Lords is the final court of appeal on points of law for the whole of the United Kingdom in civil cases and for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in criminal cases.  Judgments from late 1996 are available.

• The Times includes a law section which covers recent trials and other legal information. To find a Times law report go to its date, search under Britain and scroll down to Law Reports.

• Electronic Law Journals.  This site is designed to promote the electronic publication and reading of law journals within the academic community.

• United Kingdom Legal Information Centre.  This site provides background information about government and the legal profession in the United Kingdom as well as links to legal sites.  The site is maintained by the World Wide Legal Information Association, a non-profit corporation from Canada.

• English Legal Research Web Sites from the University of Texas Law Library links to a  variety of  UK government home pages and other legal organizations and law schools in the U.K.