Open Access Journals / Blogs – Law

Updated as on February 2020

International Open Access Material

International Legal Materials

• International Criminal Court
• UN Commission on International Trade Law
• Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts (CLOUT)
• WorldLII – laws, treaties, cases, and journals.
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School – historical diplomacy documents
• Canada Treaty Resources
• Eur-Lex – Treaty Collection
• Global-Regulation
• LawCite
• Library of Congress – The Library of Congress has created research guides for a wide range of countries including Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, Egypt, Eritrea, France, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Russia and Sweden.
• GlobaLex – This site includes sections on foreign, international and comparative law.
• CommonLII – CommonLII provides free access to the legal materials of 59 Commonwealth and common law jurisdictions.
• Juricaf – includes Supreme Court decisions from 42 francophone countries. [FRENCH]

Data Sources

• Data.go.jp – Japan
• Data.gouv.fr– France
• Data.parliament.uk – United Kingdom
• DevInfo Online – Global
• EdStats – World Bank – Data on Education
• National High Courts Database  – data on courts in the following countries: Australia, Canada, India, Namibia, Philippines, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• UN Data
• World Bank
• Eurostat – Europe
• ICPSR – US
• IQSS Dataverse Network – Harvard
• OECD Statistics
• UNdata

International Relations and Human Rights Data

• AidData
• Correlates of War Project
• Database of Political Institutions
• Freedom House
• Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
• Polity IV Project
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Historical Law Library

• The Roman Law Library – This website provides access to laws from Rome.
• English Medieval Legal Documents Wiki – Guide to available Medieval English legal documents from AD 600 – AD 1535. It includes references to both print sources and online sources.
• Early English Laws – Early English Laws is a project to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta 1215.

Open Access Journals – Social Sciences

Updated as on January 2020