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HUDOC is worth knowing even outside Europe, because European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence gets cited well beyond its 47 member states — it's a genuinely global reference point for human-rights reasoning. Fully searchable, free,…
Two coordination tools rather than content stores in their own right: N-Lex is a single free gateway linking out to each EU member state's own official legislation database, and the Common Portal of National Case Law lets you search…
CanLII is what a national bar association can build when it decides to fund free access to law directly: the Federation of Law Societies of Canada bankrolls a non-profit holding over 2.4 million documents — every Canadian court from the…
Canada's federal government publishes its own consolidated Acts and Regulations free via the Justice Laws Website, and the Supreme Court of Canada publishes its own judgments directly — the same "go to the source" principle that applies…
AustLII, run jointly by the law faculties of UTS and UNSW, is one of the original signatories of the Free Access to Law Movement and covers Australian case law and legislation across every state, territory, and the federal level, plus…
NZLII does for New Zealand what AustLII does for Australia; PacLII does the same for Pacific Island nations — Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and others — where free legal information would otherwise be genuinely hard to find at all.…
Hosted at the University of Cape Town, AfricanLII is the umbrella linking every national African Legal Information Institute — SAFLII, MalawiLII, ZambiaLII, NigeriaLII, UgandaLII, GhaLII, and more — into one directory, so you don't need…
SAFLII covers South Africa and neighbouring Southern African jurisdictions (Namibia, Lesotho, eSwatini among them), free, with the same case-law-plus-legislation model used across the whole LII family. Citation: 'SAFLII' (Southern African…
Two national examples worth naming individually: Kenya Law is a government body (the National Council for Law Reporting) publishing Kenya's case law, statutes, and Gazette directly and free; NigeriaLII does the equivalent as part of the…
AsianLII extends the WorldLII model across Asia broadly; HKLII is Hong Kong's specific node, both free and run on a non-profit, university-linked model. Citation: 'AsianLII' (Asian Legal Information Institute) ; 'HKLII' (Hong Kong Legal…