Free commentary on international and public law · International
Völkerrechtsblog is an academic blog on international public law, and every piece on it is open access. It began in 2014 within a network of young German-speaking international law scholars and now publishes work from authors around the…
Free commentary on international and public law · International
These three free blogs follow constitutional and European law as events unfold. Verfassungsblog was founded in 2009 by the legal journalist Maximilian Steinbeis, publishes mostly in English or German, and aims its comment and analysis at…
Free commentary on international and public law · International
EJIL: Talk! is the free blog of the European Journal of International Law, widely regarded as one of the leading international law blogs, and Opinio Juris is its long-running counterpart written by international law professors. In…
Regional human-rights courts · International
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights publishes its judgments, advisory opinions, provisional measures and compliance monitoring free on its own website, in Spanish and English. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, part of…
Regional human-rights courts · International
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
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 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 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,…
National legislation portals in Europe · International
Three more free official portals deserve a bookmark: Normattiva for Italian legislation, wetten.overheid.nl for Dutch legislation, and the Boletín Oficial del Estado for Spanish law. A Council of Europe survey of official websites that…
Africa, beyond the legal information institutes · International
Gazettes.Africa is a free collection of official government gazettes from across Africa, and Laws.Africa, a non-profit that works with African governments to publish legislation and cases online for free, runs it together with AfricanLII.…