Internet Legal Resources:

Business, Banking Laws, Bankruptcy, Finance, and Electronic Commerce

Comparative and Foreign Law Guides

Comparative Laws and Country Reports

Global Legal Information Network from the Library of Congress. Abstracts (and some full text) of legislation appearing in official gazettes of 35 countries.

Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World from the Library of Congress. Very comprehensive annotated listing of legal sources available on the web.

Guide to Law Online: Multinational and International Sources from the Library of Congress

ForIntLaw - Foreign and International Law Web from the WashLaw Web, Washburn University School of Law

Web Sites on National Parliaments

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg, Germany) - World Court Digest, OPAC, many, many links

World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

United Nations Criminal Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)

UNCJIN Home Page (server in Austria )

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. Department of State

CIA World Factbook

Background Notes on Countries and International Organizations from the U.S. Department of State

P atterns of Global Terrorism 1995 from the U.S. Dept. of State (note: server is in Sweden )

Summaries of Immigration Laws for English-Speaking Countries from BCL Immigration Services.

Copyright, patents and trademarks

Electronic Information System for International Information (EISIL)

How to use EISIL

EU Law

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/european.html

Europa (EU Commission official service, with legislation, regulations, cases, press releases.)

European Union Basics (FAQ)

European Integration Online Papers - peer reviewed working papers on European Integration from the European Community Studies Association (ECSA) Austria

Maastricht Treaty on European Union (in English)

Irish Proposals for the New Treaty on European Union.

ECHO - European Communities Host Organization

European Union Internet Resources (UC Berkeley Library)

The EU employers' Network - developments in European social & employment law

The Jean Monnet Seminar at Harvard Law School

EURODICATOM (polyglot dictionary of EU legislation)

Foreign and International

A to Z Index to European Union websites

Electronic Information System for Int’l Law (EISIL)

PAISInternational (First Search) (restricted to AUC users)

SOSIG Law Gateway

World Legal Information Institute

WorldTradeLaw.net

Foreign and International Search Engines

Law.com Practice Center: IP Law (formerly Intellectual Property World Wide) - subscription service, includes ome free news stories

International Intellectual Property ( CyberSpace Law Center )

European Union Database Protection - from the Cyberspace Law Center at Findlaw

International Arbitration

http://www.llrx.com/features/intarbitration.htm

http://www.llrx.com/features/arbitration2.htm

Researching International Commercial Arbitration

International commercial Arbitration

Lyonette Louis-Jacques (compilation of sources)

Prof. Dr. Marianne Roth . (compilation of sources)

International Law Databases

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/international.html

http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/forintmain.html

International Trade Law

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/intrade.html

http://www.iccwbo.org/index_court.asp

http://lexmercatoria.org/ International trade and commercial law monitor

http://www.wto.org/

http://www.wcoomd.org/ie/index.html

http://www.imf.org/

United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) information from the University of Freiburg, Germany

U.S. International Trade Commission

Office of the United States Trade Representative

US-Japan Technology Management Center, Stanford University

Country Commercial Guides for U.S. Investors and Country Reports on economic and trade practices from the U.S. Department of State>

Law Portals

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (Directory of law related links by topic, jurisdiction and developments)

Findlaw (Huge web portal with many links)

Internet Legal Resource Guide (Categorized index of more than 4000 select websites. Oriented towards American law students)

Jurist ( University of Pittsburgh website filled with legal news and real-time legal research website – staffed by students and professors)

LLRX (Portal with detailed research guides)

Guide to Online Legal Research (Law Library of Congress project with links to worldwide sources)

Washlaw Web (Washburn University School of Law website filled with guides to legal law available on the web)

National Law Material

North America http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/namerica.html

South America http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/samerica.html

Australasia http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/australasia.html

Asia http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/asia.html

Europe http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/europe.html

Middle East http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/mideast.html

Africa http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/mideast.html

U.S. Government Documents, Legislative History and Other Historical Resources

Catalog of Government Publications

CQ Weekly (restricted to AUC users)

Thomas (Library of Congress)

Heinonline (restricted to Law users)

United Nations

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/un.html

The United Nations

United Nations Treaty Collection

International Court of Justice (World Court) This site offers the text of the official judgments, advisory opinions, and orders, in English and French.

Access UN. - comprehensive index to UN documents and publications, links to full-text documents residing at other Web Sites, and full-text versions of Resolutions from the UN General Assembly, Economic and Social Council and Security Council.

United States

Supreme Court http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/supreme.html

Government Printing office http://www.access.gpo.gov/index.html

Maintained by the Government Printing Office the sites searches legislative information, provides information on the latest activities in Congress, searches bills by House and Senate number and links to text of public laws.

Findlaw An easy-to-use, comprehensive, searchable directory of web sites on legal subjects, lawyers, law schools, and state and federal governments.

http://thomas.loc.gov/ - Federal Legislation database