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Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) provide free access to national and multi-national collections of legislation and case law / jurisprudence

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• Asian Legal Information Institute ( AsianLII )
  Full text, searchable legal information system containing legislation, court decisions and other legal material from Asian countries
• Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
  Full text, searchable legal information system covering primary legal materials of Australian State, Territory and Federal legislation and decisions of courts and tribunals at both State and Federal level. In addition AustLII also contains many databases of secondary legal materials eg law reform and royal commission reports, law journals, treaties and other legal resources
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
  Full text, searchable legislation and case law databases covering England and Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and United Kingdom. BAILII is hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London and the Law Faculty, University College Cork, with the assistance of the Australasian Legal Information Institute
• Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
  Full text, searchable legal information system covering both legislation and case law of Provincial and Federal governments and courts (in French and English)
• Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII)
  Full text, searchable legislation, case law and secondary legal materials databases from Commonwealth and common law countries. CommonLII is coordinated and operated by AustLII
• CyLaw
  Free online directory of all decisions (first instance and appellate) of the Cypriot High Court (the Appellate, Administrative and Supreme Court of the island) since 1997. Users can conduct full text searches using the sino search engine developed by AustLII. The site is updated on a monthly basis (in Greek)
• Droit francophone
  This portal provides a catalogue of legal links and full text of legislation and jurisprudence for French-speaking countries. This project is developed by the Agence intergouvernementale de la francophonie and LexUM (in French)
• Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)
  Full text, searchable legal information system containing decisions from major courts and tribunals as well as Practice Directions, ordinances, regulations, historical laws, law reform publications and treaties. Developed and jointly operated by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and the Australasian Legal Information Institute
• InfoJus - Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas [Search]
  Site of the Legal Research Institute. Provides free Mexican legal information. Includes a database of federal and state legislation, the Mexican Official Gazette, Official Gazette of the Federal District, Bulletin of Federal Legislation, a Virtual Legal Library, special databases on constitutional, labor and social security, and links. Only in Spanish (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
• JuriBurkina
  Legal portal developed by LexUM (University of Montreal) in collaboration with Ordre des Avocats du Burkina, Secrétariat Général du Gouvernement and ZCP informatique. Provides full text access to decisions of Burkina Faso including the Conseil Constitutionnel, Conseil d'Etat and Tribunal du Travail (in French)
• Legal Information Institute (LII)
  Contains legal information and laws by subject, source and jurisdiction, federal and state constitutions and codes, opinions from the US Supreme Court, Federal Court and state courts, special topical libraries, directories of lawyers and their organisations, journals and Legal Academia, current awareness news and bulletins and publications (Cornell Law School, USA)
• Lovdata Foundation [Search]
  Lovdata covers all the Norwegian primary legal sources including Supreme Court cases, cases from the six Appellate Courts, consolidated statutes, central regulations, local regulations, the Legal Gazette Part I and II and more. Established by the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo (in Norwegian)
• New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)
  Full text, searchable legal information system containing decisions from courts and tribunals and other legal material including law journals
• Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)
  Full text, searchable legal information system containing legislation, court decisions and other legal material from American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. Developed and published by the University of the South Pacific School of Law with assistance from the Australasian Legal Information Institute
• Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
  Full text, searchable legal information system containing legislation, court decisions and other legal material from Southern African countries. Developed and published by the University of the Witswaterand Law School with assistance from the Australasian Legal Information Institute
• World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
  A collaborative project that provides a single search facility for databases located on the following Legal Information Institutes: AustLII, BAILII, CanLII, Droit francophone, HKLII, LII (Cornell), PacLII and SAFLII. It also hosts its own database collections and provides links to law-related websites for every country in the world
• Zambian Legal Information Institute (ZamLII) [Search]
  Collection of legal information of Zambia. Includes decisions, acts, commentaries and a directory