Regional Law

The portal provides access to information (in Arabic, French and English) produced by the Algerian Parliament. Publications include access to the debate records in Arabic. 

The Constitutional Council (Conseil Constitutionnel) was estabished by the Constitution of 23 February 1989. It normally performs control for constitutionality and conformity of some legal texts with the Constitution as well as certain functions with respect to electoral matters.

The website provides information in Arabic, French and English.

The Journal Officiel (Government Gazette) website provides direct free access to the published issues of the Official Journal of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. The information is updated every Wednesday and dates back to 1962. The Codes are also available on the website. The site's information is available in both Arabic and French.

A portal for Algerian law covering judgments, legislation and legal doctrine.

Under development.

The website of the Parliament of Angola publishes legislative initiatives and other parliamentary news.

This is the portal website of the Angola government. It provides free access to current and historical Angolan legislation.

The Tribunal Constitucional (Constitutional Court) performs review for the constitutionality of laws, decrees, resolutions, international treaties and any other norms, as prescribed by Art. 155 of the Angolan Constitution. The court is the highest court that decides constitutional matters. It has jurisdiction over certain electoral, referendum and separation of powers matters.

The website features the caselaw of the court. 

The Tribunal Supremo is the highest court of law in Angola save for the supreme jurisdiction of the Tribunal Constitucional in constitutional matters. 

The website of the court publishes decisions, legislation, resolutions and other documents in Portuguese.

The website of the National Assembly provides access to the Constitution of Benin.

The Office of the President website carries all recent legislation promulgated in Benin.

The Constitutional Court of Benin performs control for the constitutionality of legislation prior and post promulgation, adjudicates on issues of separation of powers between the organs of state, and has certain powers with respect to elections. 

The website offers access to the jurisprudence of the court from 1991 to date as well as some relevant legislation.

The Supreme Court is the highest court in Benin with appellate jurisdiction in administrative, civil and criminal matters, as well as litigation concerning local elections. 

The website of the Court is under development. Comprehensive archive of its Jurisprudence is avilable on the Juricaf website.

The official website of the Supreme Court does not offer access to its jurisprudence. The website arrangement has made provision for such access in the future though.

In French. Legal journal. Table of contents and some full text articles on-line. Published from 2004. "a pour objectif principal de faire connaître le droit positif béninois, à savoir les textes législatifs et réglementaires, mais également l’état de la doctrine et de la jurisprudence." http://www.droitetlois.com/

The E-Laws project is an initiative of the Attorney General's chambers. The website provides comprehensive access to Botswana law - legislation and caselaw.

The Government directory on the Portal provides access to all law producing bodies in Botswana and their websites. 

The website of the National Assembly provides access to legislation from 1992 to date.

The Conseil Constitutionnel performs , among others, the following functions: 

The official website of the Council of State. The Council is the apex court in administrative matters. The website provides free access to some of the decisions of the court, as well as the legislative texts that define its operation.

Official website of the Court of Cassation, an appellate court of the highest instance. Some legislation available, but no decisions.

The Court of Auditors scrutinizes public accounts of the state, local municipalities, as well as those of state organizations of administrative nature. This is the official website, which publishes some of the formative texts, as well as some decisions of the court.

The website of the Ministry of Justice host some legislation and legal policy documents.

The National Assembly website provides access to Burundi legislation (2006-2010) and Assembly commissions' reports (2010-).

The website provides access to adopted, rejected and pending bills (2006 - ) as well as the Constitution and Electoral code.

The Government portal offers access to Cameroonian laws and statutory instuments from 1990 - . Available in French and English.

The website of the Assembleia Nacional publishes legislation and parliamentary debates (Hansards).

The website of the Imprensa Nacional offers free access to Series I, II and III of the Cape Verde Government Gazette. Requires registration.

The official website of the Supremo Tribunal de Justiça features related legislation and links to the jurisprudence of the court. The Supremo Tribunal is the court of last resort in Cape Verde.

The Tribunal de Contas do Estado (Court of Auditors) of Cape Verde is the highest body in the land in terms of reviewing the legality of public expenditure and and all accounts the law prescribes to be submitted to it.

The website offers free access to relevant legislation as well as the jurisprudence of the Court dating back to 1993. 

The website offers free access to the Mining Code, the Petroleum Code, the Forrest Code, the Constitution and the Penal Code.

The website of the Government of Chad provides links to most national law producing bodies. It also publishes a collection of Chadian legislation. 

This law portal provides free online access to Congolese legal information. It features: 

• Legislation (1883 - to date)
• Government Gazette (2002 - 2010)
• Selected jurisprudence of the Supreme Court
• Doctrine

The website of the Senate of the Democratic Republic of Congo publishes parliamentary information, including project laws, bills and Committee reports. 

The website of the Assemblée Nationale provides limited access to parliamentary debates.

The Journal Officiel offers free access to current and past issues dating back to 1977. The documents are available via search and via a subject index. In French.

Search the government gazette of Djibouti

Official Journal of Djibouti on the Presidential website.

The President's website provides free access to the Constitutional and organic laws. Links to the Official Journal.

Egyptian legislation on the Egypt Information Portal's website. A comprehensive database of Decrees for 2009 - 2011, as well as the Constitution, the Local Administration law and the Civil law. In Arabic. Requires registration.

The website provides free access to Egyptian legislation and caselaw. In Arabic. Sponsored by the UNDP.

The page provides an overview of the Egyptian legal system and sources of law.

The Parliament is the bicameral legislature of Egypt. Currently dissolved (September 2011).

The Court is the highest judicial power in Egypt and it alone undertakes the judicial control in respect of the constitutionality of the laws and regulations and shall undertake the interpretation of the legislative texts in the manner prescribed by law. In addition the supreme court is empowered to settle competence disputes between the judicial and the administrative courts.

The website does not publish any caselaw yet.

The Official government portal.

Abyssinia Law offers free access to Ethiopian law, bot primary and secondary sources, as well as an Ethiopian lawyers' directory and online legal forums.

The official web gateway to the government of Ethiopia. The website features some legislation and policy documents under the Publications category.

The National Assembly of Gabon (Assemblée Nationale) is the lower house of the Parliament of Gabon. It has 120 members, 111 members elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies and 9 members appointed by the President.

The website publishes some information relating to work of the legislature and some laws.

The website of the Constitutional court.

The website of the Senat is currently (September 2011) offline.

The official government portal links to public institutions listing caselaw and legislation.

The website of the Gambian Judiciary provides information about the structure of the Judiciary, biographies of judges of the various courts, as well as legislation, unreported judgments, cause lists and other relevant judicial information.

The Gambia Law Reports are available in PDF: 1960 - 2008.

The Gambia National Assembly website plans to host the Laws of Gambia, acts of Parliament, bills and draft bills.

This website publishes information for the Executive, Legislature and Judiciary of the Republic Of Ghana. The vision and mission statements of the respective Government Ministries are also contained. It also contains information on the symbols of the State like the coat of Arms, Flag etc. Their political history is also available, Elections Reports and their Electoral Commission website is also linked. It is an up to date website offering current Information. All content is available for free.

This site provides a single access point to all information relating to the Judicial Service of Ghana, i.e. History, Schedule of Court Fees, Judicial News, Weekly Cause List, Complaints Unit, Judicial Reforms, Biodata of Supreme Court Judges, List of Appeal Court, High Court and Circuit Court Judges, and District Court Magistrates. 
 

Other information provided are, the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, Court Rules, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Library Services, Speeches, etc.

Free access to Ghana caselaw.

The website of the Parliament of Ghana has not yet been launched (September 2011). 

The Assembleia Nacional Popular publishes some legislation and select parliamentary information.

The website of the Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Côte-D'Ivoire provides access to a limited range of trade-related legislation.

Loidic publishes a selection of consolidated legislation

The Adiministrative law division of the Supreme Court offers access to some of its important decisions on its website.

The Court of Audit is a supreme audit institution, i.e. a government institution performing financial and/or legal audit (i.e. Statutory audit or External audit) on the executive branch of power.

The official web page of the court on the Government portal.

The Government portal links to many of major law-producing institutions in the Ivory Coast. At the time of publication (September 2011) many of those had their websites inactive.

The website of the Kenya Judiciary provides organizational information and daily cause lists for some of the Kenyan courts. 

The National Council for Law Reporting, incorporating Kenya Law Reports and KenLII, publishes the official  general Kenya law reports, unreported judgments from Kenya's superior courts, the Laws of Kenya, the Kenya Gazette dating back to the 1900's, and Kenyan journals among other Kenyan legal information. 

The website of the Parliament of Kenya offers access to the Hansard (2006 - 2011; and archive), bills and a bill tracker service.

The African Human Rights Law Journal publishes peer-reviewed contributions dealing with human rights related  topics of relevance to Africa, Africans and scholars of  Africa. The Journal appears twice a year, in March and  October.          

The Journal appears on the list of accredited  journals of the South African Department of Education and  is included in the International Bibliography of the Social  Sciences (IBBS).

The African Human Rights Law Reports contains legal decisions of relevance to human rights law in Africa. These include selected domestic decisions from the whole continent, as well as the decisions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the United Nations treaty bodies, dealing with African countries. The Reports are fully indexed, to facilitate access and make research easy.

Open access journal of the African Criminology and Justice Association.

The website of the Botswana Law Journal, a journal of the University of Botswana.

The Institue of Foreign and Comparative Law (IFCOL) initiated the publication of 'The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa' (CILSA) in 1968 with a view to stimulating research into the comparative and international aspects of law amongst Southern African researchers.

The journal provides a platform for debate, research and publication on all related issues of human rights and peace. Themes include, but are not limited to, conflict, constitutional and administrative law, freedom of information, gender, law and development, good governance and public international law. Interdisciplinary articles on the above topics are encouraged.

The Ethiopian Bar Review is the current awareness publication of the Ethiopian Bar. Free access to the English abstracts of the Amharic text.

Kenya's first official law journal is a free access publication.

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

UNDP-POGAR - Arab Legal Portal

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:

GlobaLex provides guides on many African countries' legal systems and research. 

Islamic family law is "the most widely applied family law system in the world today,..." The project seeks to "explore and substantiate possibilities of reform within particular communities of Muslims in their own context." For each country covered, provides a history, legal practices, effects on women, a bibliography. Full text of "Domestic Violence and Shari’a: A Comparative Study of Muslim Societies in the Middle East, Africa and Asia" by Lisa Hajjar. From the Emory University, School of Law. [KF] http://www.law.emory.edu/IFL/

The portal publishes some Lesotho legislation and policy. Links to institutional websites publishing sector-specific legislation are also provided. 

The Lesotho Legal Information Institute offers free access to Lesotho legal materials. 

This is a website provides basic information on government ministries of Liberia and the Central Bank of Liberia 

Liberia Legal Information Institute

The Liberia Legal Information Institute provides comprehensive and free access to legal information from Liberia. 

The Haute Cour Constitutionnelle, as a constitutional court, provides control for constitutionality, oversees elections and referendums and decides on separation of powers issues. 

The judgments and decisions of the court are available on its website.

The Senat website publishes legislation and debates.

The Malawi Legal Information Institute provides free access to Malawi legal information.

The website of the parliament of Malawi publishes Hansards (for 2007 only!) and a handful of acts and bills.

The court performs constitutional review, ensures the regularity of referendums and announces results, and has jurisdiction over election disputes. 

Select jurisprudence of the court is available on the website. 

The Cour Supreme is the final court for decisions in civil, social, commectical and criminal cases in Mali. 

It is also the court of appeal for all decisions of first instance administrative courts. Its jurisdiction extends to actions on abuse of power in decress, regulations or ministerial orders. 

The website publishes the judgments of the court. 

The Journal Officiel publishes for free access laws, ordinances and decrees.

The Court of auditors exercises administrative and judicial control over public finances.

The Assemblee Nationale website has sections making provision for the publication of laws, bills and debates.