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Thematic and cross-border databases · International

NATLEX and NORMLEX: labour law, national and international

NATLEX and NORMLEX are the International Labour Organization's free databases, one for national labour laws and one for international labour standards. NATLEX holds more than 100,000 records covering 196 countries and over 160 territories…

Thematic and cross-border databases · International

SHERLOC: crime-fighting law in six databases

SHERLOC is a free knowledge portal from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime on laws and cases about organised crime and terrorism. The name expands to Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime. It was built to help countries put the UN…

Thematic and cross-border databases · International

italaw: where investment-treaty arbitration comes out of the shadows

italaw is a free, open-access repository of investment-treaty arbitration, a field that is famously hard to see into, and it is run by an academic, not a state. Andrew Newcombe of the University of Victoria publishes it. It collects…

Thematic and cross-border databases · International

WTO dispute settlement documents: every trade dispute since 1995

The World Trade Organization publishes a free dataset of every dispute brought under its dispute settlement system from 1995 to today, with the panel and Appellate Body reports and the documents around them. Each dispute has a profile…

Thematic and cross-border databases · International

IALS Eagle-i: a librarian's map of free legal websites

Eagle-i is a free, curated directory of online legal resources from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. Instead of searching the open web and hoping, you browse entries that a human has described, filtered…

Free scholarship and legal education · International

SSRN Legal Scholarship Network: working papers before the journals

The Legal Scholarship Network on SSRN is a free preprint server where law professors post papers before or alongside journal publication, and most can be downloaded without paying. It is a privately owned commercial platform (owned by a…

Free scholarship and legal education · International

DOAJ and the Law Network: two doors to open-access journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a free index of journals whose articles are open to everyone, and its law listings are a quick way to find journals you can read without a subscription. Alongside it, the Law Network from the…

Free scholarship and legal education · International

H2O Open Casebook: law textbooks that cost nothing and can be remixed

H2O is a free platform for creating and sharing open-licensed law casebooks, built by the Library Innovation Lab at the Harvard Law School Library. It began at the Berkman Klein Center. The reasoning is simple: most of a casebook is…

Free scholarship and legal education · International

CALI eLangdell Press: free law books from a consortium of law schools

CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, is a non-profit consortium of law schools and libraries, and its eLangdell Press publishes free, open-access casebooks and other law school texts. It began publishing them in 2012.…

Free scholarship and legal education · International

Awesome Legal Data: a developer's shopping list of open legal datasets

Awesome Legal Data is a free, community-maintained list on GitHub of datasets and resources for processing legal text, curated by the Open Legal Data project. It is for programmers and researchers, not for lawyers looking up a case. The…