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LAW 7222: Comparative Law II: Criminal Procedure: Websites & Blogs

This guide was specifically created for Professor Turner's Comparative Law II: Criminal Procedure course and was not intended for general use outside of this course.

General Websites

·         German Law Archive. http://germanlawarchive.iuscomp.org/. Provides translated cases, statutes, literature, and bibliographies on German law.

 

·        GlobaLex. http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html#. Provides a collection of country guides to foreign legal materials, written by legal research experts. 

 

·         Harvard Law Library, Free Legal Research Resources - Foreign and International Law. http://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=310432&p=2072003#s-lg-page-section-2072003. Provides helpful links.  Scroll down to the "Foreign and International Law” section.

 

·         HEUNI, The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations http://www.heuni.fi/en/index.html . HEUNI has three major publication series.  The first, HEUNI Report series, contains studies, seminar reports, and other materials on developments in crime and criminal justice in Europe.  The second, HEUNI Paper series, contains papers on various criminal justice themes.  The third, National Criminal Justice Profiles, contains profiles for Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, England and Wales, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.

 

·         Japanese Law Translation. http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/?re=02. Provides translations of Japanese laws in English, as well as a Japanese-English bilingual dictionary.

 

·         New York University, Guide to Foreign Law By Jurisdiction.  http://nyulaw.libguides.com/content.php?pid=637582. Created by NYU’s law librarians.  Provides information and a list of links arranged by country.

 

·         United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC).  http://www.unodc.org/unodc/index.html. Provides legal tools, reports, treaties, translated statutes, and statistics on international drug and crime control.

 

·         University of Michigan, Directory of Government Gazettes Online. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~graceyor/doctemp/gazettes/index.htm.  Attempts to provide links to all available online gazettes.

 

·         University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Transnational Law: Foreign Law Translations. http://www.utexas.edu/law/academics/centers/transnational/work_new/. “This site is a resource for French, German, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. The English translations of decisions from Germany and France include cases from the Reichsgericht, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Bundesgerichtshof, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de Cassation.”

 

·         U.S. Law Library of Congress, Guide to Law Online.  http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.php. Provides an annotated guide to free online sources of information worldwide on government and law.

 

·         U.S. Law Library of Congress, How do I Find… ? Foreign and International Law. http://www.loc.gov/law/help/foreign.php. Provides extensive research guides for 13 countries.

 

·         U.S. Law Library of Congress, Multinational Collections Database. http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/Glic?home. Allows you to search through looseleafs and treatises that reprint or analyze the laws and regulations of foreign jurisdictions.  You can search by jurisdiction, subject, and author.  Searching by jurisdiction works best.

 

·         World Law Guide. http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/. Provides more than 63,000 links to legal sites in over 180 countries. 

 

·         World Legal Information Institute.  http://www.worldlii.org/. Provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: Australasian-AustLII; British & Irish-BAILII; Canadian-CanLII; Hong Kong-HKLII; U.S.-LII (Cornell); and Pacific Island-PacLII. This site is a good first stop in a search for law online. The "Catalog" page is arranged by country.

 

 

Websites of Relevant Organizations and Institutions

Open Society Justice Initiative  http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/programs/open-society-justice-initiative

Human Rights Watch  http://www.hrw.org/

Human Rights First  http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/

Department of State Country Reports  http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/#wrapper

Amnesty International  http://www.amnesty.org/

International Center for Transitional Justice  http://ictj.org/

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime  http://www.unodc.org/

United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI)  http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/

United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNCRI)  http://www.unicri.it/

Australian Institute of Criminology  http://www.aic.gov.au/

British Columbia Law Institute  http://www.bcli.org/

Centre for Criminology (University of Oxford)  http://www.crim.ox.ac.uk/

Centre for Law, Crime, and Justice (The Law School, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)  http://www.strath.ac.uk/clcj/

HEUNI (European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control)  http://www.heuni.fi/

Institute for Criminology (Cambridge University)  http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/

International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy  http://www.icclr.law.ubc.ca/

International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences  http://www.isisc.org/

International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law  http://www.isrcl.org/

Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law  http://www.mpicc.de/ww/en/pub/home.cfm

The Sentencing Project  http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/index.cfm

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)  http://www.uncjin.org/

Vera Institute of Justice  http://www.vera.org/

 

 

Blogs

Reading blogs is an excellent way to keep current on the latest issues in a particular field or subject area. There are literally hundreds of criminal justice and international law blogs. For lists of relevant blogs, see the American Bar Association Journal’s criminal justice and international law list. Below is a list of blogs you might find relevant.