The University of Caen makes available a very useful dictionary of synonyms through its linguistics department and the research centre CRISCO (Centre de Recherche Inter-langue sur la Signification en COntexte).
The interface is clear, simple, and best of all, clean and fast. 🙂 No fancy graphics here, but, at least on my computer, it is super efficient.
Oh, and did I mention that there are no adverts? 👍😍
HERMES – Journal of Language and Communication in Business is a free online peer-reviewed international journal published twice a year by the Department of Business Communication at Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences, Denmark.
The World Bank has recently published the 4th edition of its series Women, Business and the Law, which provides data on legal and regulatory barriers to women’s entrepreneurship and employment in 173 economies, covering seven areas: accessing institutions, using property, getting a job, providing incentives to work, building credit, going to court, and protecting women from violence.
I recently discovered an amazing resource that I’d like to share with you – the International Agency and Distribution Handbook (5th edition) produced and made available by the well-known law firm Baker & McKenzie.
Oyez, a free law project at Chicago-Kent College of Law, is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work.
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) makes available on its website The Global Climate Legislation Study. It is the fifth edition in a series dating back to 2010.
The 2015 edition covers 98 countries plus the EU, up from 66 in 2014.
Following on from last week’s post on the European Guide for Legal Expertise (EGLE) project, I would like to bring to your attention the 2015 report of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) which gives an overview of the quality, independence and efficiency of the judicial systems of European Member States.
I feel sure that you will be as fascinated as I was by a press review (2014) covering the judicial systems of Andorra, Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Morocco, Monaco, The Netherlands, Romania, Scotland, the Russian Federation, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, as well as an international section.
It is published by the Council of Europe and the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ).
La Santé prison, Paris, France
Criminocorpus is an online scholarly publication on the subject of criminal justice history.
It provides researchers and the general public with free access to a wide range of primary sources, together with analysis of key subjects by leading specialists in the field. There are also a growing number of online multimedia exhibitions.
The French Conseil d’Etat has made available, online, the full video recording of the inaugural symposium in a series entitled “Droit comparé et territorialité du droit“.
The website also includes some short interviews with the highly respected figures participating in the symposium: Érik Orsenna, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Dominic Grieve & Horatia Muir Watt.
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