Asia (Beyond India) · International
Four official, government-run statute databases worth knowing by name if your research ever crosses into South or East Asia: Singapore's Attorney-General's Chambers publishes consolidated Acts free; Japan's Ministry of Justice maintains…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
The official, free record of every treaty registered with the UN Secretariat, plus ratification status — the definitive answer to "has this country actually signed and ratified this." Citation: 'United Nations Treaty Collection' (United…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
Run by UNHCR, Refworld combines national and international refugee law, relevant case law, country-of-origin information, and UNHCR's own policy guidance into one free database — indispensable for asylum practitioners specifically, and a…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
The International Committee of the Red Cross maintains a free database of international humanitarian law treaties, the customary rules distilled from state practice, and how individual countries have implemented them domestically — a…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
The ICJ is the UN's principal judicial organ for disputes between states, and its full judgment and advisory-opinion archive, running back to 1946, is free and public — a genuinely readable record of how international law actually gets…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
The ICC publishes its own case documents and judgments free, and separately maintains the Legal Tools Database — a broader free archive of international criminal law materials useful well beyond the Court's own docket. Citation:…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
The UN human-rights treaty bodies (the committees overseeing CCPR, CEDAW, CAT, and others) publish state reports, concluding observations, and individual complaint decisions here, free — the paper trail of how international human-rights…
The United Nations & International Bodies · International
Two closing entries: UNCITRAL publishes model laws, conventions, and case-law abstracts (CLOUT) on international commercial law free; WorldCourts is an independent, non-profit compilation of decisions from international courts and…
Government platforms · India
The SCR portal is the Supreme Court of India's official law reporter, it costs nothing, and since May 2025 it has replaced two separate sites with one. Think of two reading rooms that used to sit in different buildings, one for searching…
Government platforms · India
SUVAS is a free, AI-assisted translation effort that puts Supreme Court and some High Court judgments into Indian languages, and the translations cost nothing to read. The name stands for Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad Software, a…