Regional Law

The African Human Rights Case law Analyser offers the most exhaustive access to the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights in English and French. It is unrivalled in its research friendliness, convenient navigation and search options, and intuitive readability. 

The African Human Rights Case Law Database includes almost 300 cases decided by domestic courts, courts of sub-regional intergovernmental organisations such as ECOWAS and SADC, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and United Nations treaty monitoring bodies. The database covers cases dealing with human rights in more than 40 African countries.

This website provides a centralized source for scholars, practitioners and laypersons working in or on the Continent and a reference to the work of these courts and tribunals for others studying the global phenomenon.

Here you will find for each international court or tribunal substantially touching Africa:

• An overview
• Any recent news
• The basic documents
• A selected bibliography
• Biographies of its judges
• Related jurisprudence from Member States

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The database CODICES, like the Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law, is a publication of the European Commission for Democracy through Law also known as Venice Commission. It reports regularly on the case-law of constitutional courts, courts of equivalent jurisdiction in Europe and America and of the European Court of Human Rights as well as the Court of Justice of the European Communities. The CODICES is published three times a year, each issue reporting the most important case-law since 1993 together with that covering the most recent four months period.

The Doing Business law library is the largest free online collection of business laws and regulations. The website links to official government sources wherever possible. Translations are not official unless indicated otherwise. They update the collection regularly but are unable to guarantee that laws are the most recent version. 

This is a site devoted to business law and taxation in Francophone Africa. It aims to make available to business and legal professionals a comprehensive legal information, which is relevant, up-to-date and selected by the lawyers.

ECOLEX is a database providing the most comprehensive, global source of information on environmental law.

ECOLEX is operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.

ECOLEX provides free access to legislation, court decisions, treaties and literature.

EPLex provides information on all the key topics that are regularly examined in national and comparative studies on employment termination legislation. The information is broken down to cover more than 50 variables, and will be updated annually to facilitate analysis of impacts and trends over time. EPLex replaces the ILO's existing Digest on Termination of Employment Legislation.

EPLex is designed to be: 

FAOLEX is a comprehensive and up-to-date computerized legislative database, one of the world's largest electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources.

Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as to the full text of most legislation contained in the database.

The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the full texts of their published documents to the database in their original languages. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and, in many cases in additional languages, plus subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN.

The purpose of the International Association of Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions (IASAJ) is to promote exchanges of ideas and experiences between jurisdictions empowered to adjudicate, in last instance, disputes arising from the action of public administrations. It seeks to encourage cooperation on questions of law pending before these courts or related to their organization and functioning.

The website provides links to the websites of the Supreme Courts of many African countries. 

The TRAVAIL Database of Conditions of Work and Employment Laws provides a picture of the regulatory environment of working time, minimum wages and maternity protection in more than 100 countries around the world. It contains comprehensive legal information, which allows you to conduct customized research on a specific country, to compare the legislation of several countries or regions on a particular subject or to perform searches by text. For selected issues, a historical comparison is possible.
 

Once fully complete, the World Treaty Index will feature every known international agreement in the 20th Century. This includes tens of thousands agreements entered into by hundreds of countries and international organizations. We offer a variety of methods to access the underlying data. Currently, this website only contains treaties signed between 1945 and 1999. Remaining treaties are being added according to the following timeline: