Useful links.

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 

• European Union Law and Case Law

• HUDOC - Database  European Court of Human Rights

FRANCE

• Légifrance 

• French Civil Code 2016 The Law of Contract (the English translation is gratefully provided by John Cartwright; Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson; Simon Whittaker)

• Le Vocabulaire Juridique

•  LEXIS (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource)

• CAIRN  (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource)

• DALLOZ  (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource)

• LAW-LSU French Law: Books and Other Print Materials

GERMANY

• GESETZE IM INTERNET – JURIS 

• BECKONLINE

SPAIN

• Boletin oficial del Estado - Todo el Derecheo

• Poder Judicial de Espana

UK

• BAILII British and Irish Legal Information Institute

USA 

• HEINONLINE (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource)

• WEST LAW (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource) 

• United States reports and Supreme Court opinions

• FINDLAW

• United States Reports (Official opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court)

• Case law: online resources for common law countries: USA

• US Supreme Court Bound Volumes website (open access)

• US Supreme Court Slip Opinions (open access)

• Early US Reports Citation Conversion

• 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).

• LII Legal Information Institute Cornell University

CANADA 

• Canadian Legal Information Institute

• HEINONLINE (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource)

• WEST LAW (Bobbio Library Data Base On line Resource)

Legal Dictionaries

• Merriam Webster

• Wex freely available legal dictionary and legal encyclopedia

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

David Gruning, Alain R. Levasseur, John Randy Trahan, Estelle Roy, Translation of the French Civil Code in English 

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