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Here you can find links to official and academic websites providing the official versions of legal texts, tools for legal translation and valuable resources for legal English.
EU
FRANCE
GERMANY
SPAIN
UK
USA
United States Reports (Official opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court)
The Oyez Project (open access) a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work, including unauthorised decisions from 1792. You can also view cases by issue (subject matter).
CANADA
Legal Dictionaries
Bibliographical Resources for Teaching Law in English as a Foreign Language
TRANSLATIONS OF CIVIL CODES
Italian Civil code
Codice civile. English, The Italian Civil code. Translated by Mario Beltramo, Giovanni E. Longo [and] John Henry Merryman, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Oceana Publications, 1969
French Civil code
Gérard Cornu (ed), Dictionary of the civil code, Lexisnexis, 2014
German Civil code
Official translation of the German civil code
Spanish Civil code
Vicente Sinco, Francisco R. Capistrano, The Civil Code: An English Translation of the Spanish Civil Code, Manila, 1932
EUROPEAN/INTERNATIONAL HARD AND SOFT LAW RESOURCES
UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (2016)
UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities (2013)
UNIDROIT Legislative Guide on Intermediated Securities (2017).
UNIDROIT Principles on Digital Assets and Private Law (May 2023)
Principles of European Contract Law
Principles of European Family Law
Draft Common Frame of Reference
Common European Sales Law
USEFUL TEXTBOOK RESOURCES FOR TEACHING
ITALIAN TEXTBOOKS:
G. Alpa, V. Zeno-Zencovich, Italian Private Law, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2007
M. Cenini, R. Cerchia, Cases and materials on Italian Private Law, Giuffrè, 2016
G. Filograno, Private Law. Notes on the Italian system, ESI, 2021
G. Iudica, P. Zatti, Language and rules of Italian private law. A brief textbook, CEDAM, 5th ed., 2020
P. Sirena, Introduction to private law, Il Mulino, 3rd ed., 2021
FRENCH TEXTBOOKS:
J. Bell, S. Boyron, S. Whittaker, Principles of French Law, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2008
G.A. Bermann, E. Picard, Introduction to French Law, Wolters Kluwer, 2012
W. Cairns, R. McKeon, Introduction to French Law, Routledge-Cavendish , 1995
SPANISH TEXTBOOKS :
Y. Bergel Sainz de Baranda, Handbook on Spanish Civil Patrimonial Law, Tecnos, 2019
L.M. Martínez Velencoso, Handbook on Spanish Civil Law. Family Law, Aranzadi, 2020
L.M. Martínez Velencoso, Handbook on Spanish Civil Law. Succession Law, Aranzadi, 2021
T. Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell, Introduction to Spanish Private Law: Facing the Social and Economic Challenges, Routledge-Cavendish, 2011
S.I. Strong, K. Fach Gómez, L. Carballo Piñero, Comparative Law for Spanish–English Speaking Lawyers. Legal Cultures, Legal Terms and Legal Practices, Elgar Publishing, 2017
OTHERS:
G. Alpa, M. Andenas, European Private Law, in Alpa et al. (dir.), Comparative, European and Italian Perspectives, Pacini, 2022
J. Gordley, H. Jiang, A. Taylor von Mehren, An introduction to the comparative study of private law, Cambridge University Press, 2021
S. Hardt, N. Kornet, Comparative Private Law, The Maastricht Collection, vol. IV, Europa Law Publishing, 2019
S. Vogenauer, Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC), OUP, 2015
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