European Law

European Law resource page with links to European law organizations, european constitutional law, european judicial network, european case law database, european environmental law, european court of human rights, european law research, and much more.

see also

European Federation and/or Individual Countries

Alliances

• The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Auditing

• European Court of Auditors

Competition, International--European Union Countries

• European Commission Directorate-General IV: Competition
  In English and other European languages. Includes an outline of Treaties, Legislation, Commission decisions, Case law, press releases, and other documents in the areas of anti-trust, merger, liberalization, and state aid. In some cases, the documents are available in full-text

Constitutional Law

• East European Constitutional Review
  Back issues available in full text

Contracts

• European Database on Case Law About Unfair Contractual Terms (CLAB)

Courts

• European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters

Documents

• Centre de Documentacio Europea
  In Spanish

Environmental Law

• European Environmental Agency
  In many languages. "Aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provisions of timely, targeted, relevant, and reliable information to policy making agents and the public."

Europe--Foreign relations--Asia

• ASEM Home Page (Asia-Europe Meeting, 1-2 March 1996)

Human Rights

• European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance
• European Court of Human Rights
• Human Rights Documentation (HUDOC)
  In English or French. Database of the case-law of the supervisory organs of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Integration Research

• European Research Papers Archive
  
• Integration--European Community Studies Association Austria (ECSA Austria)
  In English (also available in German). "A scientific organization promoting pluridiscipline research in the field of European integration. Another aim of ECSA Austria is transmitting information about European integration to universities and other scientific organizations"--Home page.
• Integration ---The Harvard Law School Jean Monnet Chair
  "Under the Jean Monnet Project, the European Commission supports university initiatives aimed at creating teaching activities in European integration. Launched in 1990 at the specific request of the academic world, the Jean Monnet Project aims to promote teaching in European integration, in particular in Law, Economics, Political Science and History - the disciplines where European Union developments are becoming an increasingly important part of the subject studied and where student demand is at its greatest. In 1995 a Jean Monnet Chair was established by the European Union at Harvard."--Introd. [October 26, 2001].

Intellectual Property

• European Copyright User Platform (ECUP)
  In English. Site includes treaties, EU directives, national laws, case law, recent initiatives, position papers
• European Patent Office
  In English (also available in French and German).
• IPR-Helpdesk
  In English, French, and German). A free, non-profit service funded by the European Community. Site has information dealing with Intellectual Property Rights issues: links to hundreds of IPR related websites including professional bodies, national and transnational patent authorities, and many others; access to patent search systems such as the European Patent Organisation's esp@cenet service, which gives access to more than 30 million patent specifications; tutorials and specialized front ends to patent search services; a document collection including all EU Directives relating to IPR; and many other sources of information, including IP-Wire, our on-line newsletter, which is also available by e-mail on request.

Labor Unions

• European Trade Union Institute

Law students--Societies, etc.

• European Law Students Association (ELSA)

Legal Research

• European Document Delivery Suppliers and Resources on the World Wide Web
  In English. By Anke Baumgartner. Published on LLRX December 18, 2000.
• Finding the Law: the Micro-States and Small Jurisdictions of Europe
  In English. By Andrew Grossman. Published on LLRX October 1, 2001. "Andorra, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino, Vatican State; also Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Northern Cyprus; and an addendum including Republika Srpska, Montenegro, Kosovo and Transnistria."
• Guide To European Legal Databases (Update 5)
  In English. By Mirela Roznovschi. Published on LLRX November 15, 1999, updated May 15, 2000.
• Guide to Researching the Council of Europe
  In English. By Anne Burnett. Published on LLRX April 17, 2000.

Local Government--Officials and Employees--Directories

• European Local Government Officers (ELGO)
  Pan-European website for identifying the decision makers in local and regional government.

Public Administration

• European Institute of Public Administration
  Site includes information about the EIPA, full text articles from their bulletin, working papers, publications related to European Union law.

Practice of Law

• The Institute of European and Comparative Law
  By Dr. Julian Lonbay. Site deals mainly with cross border legal practice rules in Europe (mutual recognition of professional legal qualifications). The University of Birmingham.

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