Legal Resources on the Web

CARIBBEAN
Online Judgments

Bahamas - Court of Appeal, Supreme Court
Barbados
Bermuda (password required)
Belize
Jamaica
OECS
Trinidad & Tobago
Caribbean Court of Justice

Online Legislation

Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas
Belize
Bermuda
Cayman Islands (see Gazette supplements for copies of legislation. All legislation in .pdf format. Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
Jamaica
Trinidad & Tobago - Revised Laws
- Annual Laws

Constitutions

LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTES

Mega Pages--Multi-links

Chicago-Kent College of Law Links to Foreign Law by country, Listserv Archives.
Cornell Legal Information Institute Good links by topic; Listserv Archives.
The U. of West. Australia Law School Great list of Links for International & Foreign Law but slow.
D'Angelo Law Library Index of Law Related E-journals; Discussion Lists; Good Foreign & International Links
Virtual Law Library Foreign Law; EU; Language and Dictionary Resources.
Washburn University School of Law -Washlaw WWW Foreign & International, Listserv Archives; Constitutions
Hieros Gamos A Comprehensive site with links to dictionaries, bar review information, etc.

International Law

General International Law

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law Links to numerous sites with International Law information and documents.
Legal Information Institute Cornell's site with links arranged by topic or document type.
International Trade Law Home Page Collection of Trade documents and links to ICC, IMC, Unidroit, WIPO, WTO etc.
United States Trade Representative Source for documents, press releases, etc
Virtual Law Library Foreign Law; EU; Language and Dictionary Resources.
Washburn University School of Law -Washlaw WWW Foreign & International, Listserv Archives; Constitutions
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biodiversity, & the Environment Great links to Environmental Information.
US Patent and Trade Mark Office International documents including treaties dealing with patents and trade marks

Treaties

Multilaterals Project (Fletcher School) Texts of Multilateral Treaties.
United Nations Treaty Database Texts of treaties with signatories and reservations.
Gopher at wiretap.spies.com.. UN Charter, ICJ Statute, & many other Multilaterals.
The House of Representatives - Internet Law Library - Treaties and international law
Gopher at jurix.jura.uni-sb.de . Treaties: Maastricht, GATT, NAFTA & Others. Links to other sites.

International Organizations

International Organizations Directory Links to all organizations--no annotations as to sites contents

United Nations

United Nations Home Page This site contains major documents from the UN. Well organized and easy to navigate.
WWW Virtual Library: United Nations Keyword searching of General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council Resolutions. Links to UN organs' sites.
United Nations Scholars' Workstation Home Page Yale's UN site with documents by Conference or Committee. Resolutions listed by session.
Fourth World Documentation Project UN documents in the FWDP archives.
UNCJIN - World Crime Survey Data World crime statistics. Available in different formats.
UN-I-QUE United Nations Info Quest Bibliographic database for locating annual reports (e.g. all the periodic reports of the USA to CEDAW)

Other Organizations

Organization of American States Documents including Resolution, Speeches, treaties, etc.
World Trade Organisation Documents, text of instruments, press releases.
UNESCO Gopher or UNESCO's DARE Social Science Database

International Tribunals

International Criminal Trubunal for the former Yugoslavia Home Page Official documents.
International Tribunals: Yugoslavia & Rwanda Great resource! Official and "unofficial" documents. Maps.
Rwanda News Additional documents on Rwanda.

Human Rights, Women & Minorities

DIANA Electronic Human Rights texts, bibliographies, etc organized by country or region
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library Great site for documents from the UN Human Rights Commission (annotated lists), Decisions from the Inter-American Commission
IGC/APC Gopher Access to PeaceNet, EcoNet, ConflictNet, LaborNet, WomensNet, etc.
Human Rights Watch Reports Organized by region & country.
The Documentation Center of Cambodia Documents relating to the genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Cambodia.
Linkages Home Page From the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Information and documents on population, women's and environmental issues.
Bosnian Information News of the situation in Bosnia with links to other sites with related information (UNProFor, etc)
Human Rights Country Practices Reports for 1995 U.S. Department of State .
Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights Lists of cases arranged by country, article, parties. German version of the same: Europ�ischer Gerichtshof f�r Menschenrechte
Queer Resources Directory Excellent source for information relating to Gay & Lesbian issues all over the world. Unofficial translations of new legislation.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Asylum laws and case law of most countries and many other documents..
Human Rights Internet (HRI) Collections of HR documents, bibliographies, and lists of publications.

Environmental Law

WWW Virt. Lib: International & Env. Law Over 7 pages of links!!
Environmental Policy Instruments Includes 120 Environmental Instruments. Searchable!
Centre de Droit Maritime et Oceanique Maritime Conventions, Hague Rules, LoS Material (English or fran�ais)
Environmental Law Around the World Arranged by region.
Multilateral Environmental Treaties Selected treaties, Greenpeace legal memoranda, & links.
Linkages Home Page From the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Information and documents on population, women's and environmental issues.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Biodiversity, & the Environment Great links to Environmental Information.

European Union

Europa Homepage Information on the Inter-Governmental Congress, each DG, assorted links.
Europa @ Internet Directory pulling together sites for official and unofficial EU information.
R�alit� europ�enne Up-dates on EU activities (including legislation and jurisprudence) by month and sector (in French)
Legislaci�n CDE - Val�ncia Tables of contents of OJ in Spanish--very recent issues.
E U resources Access to EU public databases such as EURIDICATOM & links to other sites.

European Parliament

EP's Homepage Go directly to the English Language page.
European Parliament Document Exchange Server Documents from the EP including reports, agendas. Plans are to include EP Rules, Debates, MEP information etc.

European Court of Justice

Court of Justice Proceedings of the Court (weekly).
Sentencias Uni�n Europea European Court of Justice Judgments in Spanish.

Treaties

Unified EC Treaties and TEU. A Robert Schuman Centre project to create a single unified treaty.
Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States The draft text for the revision of the treaties.

Directories & Glossaries

A GLOSSARY OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND EUROPEAN UNION An excellent to for deciphering EU abbreviations.
IDEA.Directory of the EU.

EU Presidency

Irish Presidency of the European Union 1996 Documents relating to the Presidency. The draft text for the revision of the treaties can be found at the Conference of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States

Foreign Law

General & Regional Links

Jurweb - Link Home Page Links to Foreign Law Resources.
GLIN Global Legal Information Network (Library of Congress)--Full-text legislation from around the world. Heavy Construction!
The House of Representatives - Internet Law Library Over 900 links to electronic resources. Arranged by area of law.
International Constitutional Law Constitutions of most countries; useful "background" articles; links to Constitutional cases for many countries
ILRG's Legal Resources by Nation Legal resources listed by country.
Latin American Documents Links to official documents from Latin America including statistical sources, as well as executive, ministerial, legislative, and judicial documents.

Australia

High Court of Australia Full-text judgments within 24 hours and general information about the court.

Canada

Dept. of Justice Canada Statutes and Regulations. A few annotated statutes as well.(En francais aussi)
Virtual Canadian Law Library Great links from the University of Montreal Law Faculty.

India

Indian Parliament Home Page Indian Constitution, Parliamentary Debates, Presidential Speeches, etc

Jamaica

Supreme Court of Jamaica

South Africa

SA Constitutional Repository South African Constitutional Law & Cases.
South African Constitutional Assembly Current South African Constitution and other useful Constitutional Court documents.

Trinidad & Tobago

Parliament of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago

Supreme Court of Trinidad & Tobago

Zambia

Zambia Legal Information Institute Selected Zambian court decisions and legislation.