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Regional human-rights courts · International

The African human-rights system: the Court and the Case Law Analyser

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights publishes its judgments on its own site, and a separate free database, the African Human Rights Case Law Analyser, gathers decisions from across the continent's human-rights bodies. The…

Regional human-rights courts · International

Pretoria University Law Press: African law books you can download

The Pretoria University Law Press publishes African legal scholarship and reports as free downloads, including the first official volume of the African Court's law reports. That volume covers all judgments, advisory opinions and orders…

National legislation portals in Europe · International

Légifrance: French law, free from the state

Légifrance is the French state's free public service for French law online, run under the government's general secretariat. It gives access to the Constitution, the codes, laws and decrees published in the Journal Officiel (full text from…

National legislation portals in Europe · International

Gesetze im Internet: nearly all of German federal law, free

Gesetze im Internet is the German federal government's free online collection of almost all current federal legislation, run by the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Federal Office of Justice. You can search the titles or the full text,…