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FALM isn't a database — it's the network and declaration that ties every Legal Information Institute mentioned in this guide together. Its own site functions as a directory: if your country isn't covered by name anywhere else in this…
Run by the World Intellectual Property Organization, a UN specialised agency, WIPO Lex is a genuinely comprehensive free database: over 50,000 documents from 200 jurisdictions, covering national IP laws, WIPO-administered treaties, and…
Most people don't realise Google Scholar has a dedicated case-law mode: select "Case law" before searching, and it becomes a free full-text search of millions of US court opinions (with a smaller but real footprint in other countries),…
GlobaLex answers a meta-question: not "what does the law say" but "how would an expert go about researching this jurisdiction in the first place." Each guide, written by a specialist, walks through a country's legal system and points to…
Slightly counterintuitively, one of the best free directories of every country's legal system is maintained by the American Law Library of Congress, precisely because cataloguing "reliable sources of law, worldwide" is part of its actual…
Justia built its business model on the idea that free legal information plus advertising and lawyer directories can coexist, and the result is a genuinely large free archive of US case law, statutes, and legal forms, plus curated links…
Cornell's LII, founded in the early 1990s, is arguably the ancestor of this entire movement — the free US Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, every US Supreme Court opinion since 1992 plus 600-odd historically important earlier ones,…
CourtListener is run by the Free Law Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose founders built it specifically because they believed court opinions — public documents by definition — shouldn't sit behind a paywall. It holds over nine million…
Harvard Law School digitised its own library's collection of virtually every published US court case from the country's founding through 2018, and released it as free, machine-readable, bulk-downloadable data. Less useful for a quick…
The official US federal legislative record: bill text, status, committee reports, and the Congressional Record, maintained by the Library of Congress. If a US news story quotes "a bill," this is where you verify what the bill actually…