United States · International
Run by the US Government Publishing Office, GovInfo carries the US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and federal court opinions in authenticated, bulk-downloadable form. The word "authenticated" matters here — these are…
United States · International
Oyez does something almost nobody else on this list does: it makes US Supreme Court oral argument audio genuinely browsable and free, alongside case summaries and justice biographies. A useful reminder that "open access to law" doesn't…
United States · International
Two different free resources worth naming together: FindLaw (run by Thomson Reuters) offers plain-English guides and case law aimed at the general public, while SCOTUSblog is the specialist's site — independent reporting and full case…
United Kingdom & Ireland · International
The UK's official, continuously revised database of Acts of Parliament and Statutory Instruments, including devolved legislation from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, maintained by The National Archives. "Revised" is the operative…
United Kingdom & Ireland · International
BAILII is a donation-funded charity, and it's widely regarded as the single most comprehensive free collection of British and Irish case law and legislation in one place — including EU case law, Law Commission reports, and tribunal…
United Kingdom & Ireland · International
A more recently built official repository, publishing UK court and tribunal judgments from the early 2000s onward in machine-readable form with a public API — a sign of where government legal-publishing is heading generally: not just…
United Kingdom & Ireland · International
The UK Supreme Court publishes its own judgments and press summaries free, and — a nice touch for a public trying to follow important cases — video of the actual hearings. Citation: 'UK Supreme Court — Decided Cases' (The Supreme Court of…
United Kingdom & Ireland · International
Two official reform-and-record resources worth pairing: the Law Commission publishes England and Wales's own law-reform reports free, in the same spirit as India's Law Commission; the Irish Statute Book is Ireland's official, free…
Europe & the European Union · International
EUR-Lex is what happens when a 27-country union decides its law needs one official, free, multilingual home: treaties, regulations, directives, decisions, and the Official Journal itself, searchable and — for the technically inclined —…
Europe & the European Union · International
The free, official archive of judgments and opinions from the Court of Justice and General Court of the European Union — the tribunals that ultimately decide how EU law is interpreted across every member state. Citation: 'CURIA' (Court of…