ASSR's Virtual Library: Index by Topic: Government and Law: General Reference Resources

• Abu-Ghazaleh Intellectual Property (AGIP) - promotes the importance of IP protection throughout the Arab countries and encourages the introduction of IP laws and an efficient IP system to the region.
• Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net from the Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
• Islamic Law and Jurisprudence - The Schacht Collection a complete collection of the late Prof. Joseph Schacht. There are about 4000 items written in various languages such as Arabic, English, German, French, Hebrew and Persian. Included in this collection are a number of rare books, manuscripts, out of print materials and the first edition of classic publications.
• MideastLaw - web site of Ali & Partners, Attorney and Counsellors at Law. The site provides analytic documents about commcercial laws in a number of Arab countries and articles on a number of topics; legal Commercial Agencies and Franchising, Middle East and the WTO, Lebanon copy rights, Telecommunications in the Middle East, and Kuwait Oil Sector.

Studying Islamic Law
• The Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CMEL) - of the School of Oriental and African Studies. The objective of CMEL is to study the various systems of law at work in the Islamic and Middle Eastern world and to provide a platform of interaction between the Middle Eastern and Muslim lawmakers and scholars. CMES operates as a scholarly legal bridge for research and practice at the crossroad of Islam, the Middle East and the West. See also the center's suggested reading list for a course in Islamic Law
• The Arab Initiative for Freedom of Association (Arab IFA), see The Declaration of the Principles concerning the Freedom of Association in the Arab world, which discusses the legal framework of associations in the Arab world. See also a discussion of the declaration from the EuroMedRights.net.
Legal Analyses
• Islamic Family Law - Legal Profiles - a project of the Law and Religion Program of Emory University. The Legal profiles are organized in two formats, first a table summarising the main points, and then a more detailed narrative directly below the table. Although the aim is to cover all those aspects of (the application of) Muslim personal law that diverge from the classical application, the information in the legal profiles is limited to the extent that wherever such information is available, it has been included.
• ISLAM-Catalogue - the Oriental Institute University of Leipzig, links to information and legal analysis on topics ranging from Islamic law, law and policies, business and banking law, culture and women in Islamic countries.
Legal Portals
• Contitutional Finder - Univeristy of Richmond. The site offers access to constitutions, charters, amendments, and other legal documents
• FindLaw - provides access to legal documents worldwide.
• Internet Legal Research Guides - A categorized index of information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession. The site provides access to more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations, as well as more than 850 locally stored web pages and downloadable files.
• International Constitutional Law - Wuerzburg University. The site provides access to constitutional documents of countries worldwide.
• LawCrawler - a law based search engine.
• LawRunner - an Internet based research tool powered by AltaVista search.
• Legisnet - Portal of laws and constitutional texts from Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, including a database of the French Constitutions since 1798. The site provides access to other valuable link resources.
• Lex Mercatoria - International Trade Law site.
• NATLEX- the International Labour Organization. NATLEX is a bibliographic database that contains information on national laws on labour, social security and related human rights.
• World Constitutions and International Treaties - from the Texas A&M University General Libraries.
• WWW Resources for International and Legal Research - - subjects covered: Administrative Law, Business and Commercial Law, Civil and Appellate Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law and Evidence, Environmental Law, Family Law, Foreign and International Law, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment Law, Property Law, Taxation, etc.
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