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General Law: Web sites and Internet resources
- Berkeley Law & Economics Working PapersCardiff Index to Legal abbreviations — search by title or abbreviation for Australia, UK, US and other international jurisdictions.
- ECOLEX — developed by the FAO, IUCN and UNEP, ECOLEX includes full-text treaties, national legislation and court decisions, as well as references to journal articles and books about environmental law.
- EISEL (Electronic Information System for International Law) — find primary materials and authoritative web sites for various topics in international law.
- Foreign Law Translations has been developed by the University of Texas and has decisions and/or statutes for France, Germany, Israel, Austria and Italy covering constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law.
- GLIN (Global Legal Information Network) is a free database of laws, regulations, case decisions and legal articles contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations (but not including Australia).
- GlobaLex — developed by the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University School of Law, GlobaLex provides quality guides about research tools for international, foreign and comparative law.
- Government publications — UNE University Library's list of online and printed materials for Australian law.
- House of Lords (UK) — HTML and PDF full-text judgments from 1996
- International Criminal Law Database & Commentary — PDF documents including case law, rules and regulations from the International Criminal Court, the Rome Statute and Elements of Crime.
- Intute: Law — a collection of legal web resources selected by tertiary level educators and researchers
- Just Search — search full-text reports and references collated by the Law & Justice Foundation of NSW
- Law Society of New South Wales
- LawPORTAL — a complete online reference to legal resources available on the WWW, for legislation, business and trade, stock exchange, taxation, patents, accounting standards and more.
- Legal Information Access Centre — free legal information provided by the State Library of NSW. Check the Hot Topics, links to legislation and caselaw and Getting Started guides.
- Legal Profession Admission Board (NSW) past examination papers with comments
- Legal skills — a page of useful text and links written by Christopher Enright
- US Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online — US and international websites offering the full texts of laws, regulations and court decisions.
- National Office for the Information Economy — provides public access to Australian government information.
- NSW legislation help in creating the correct links to legislation for your referencing.
- Publications Register for Australian government agencies, including Parliamentary resources and legislation databases.
- United Nations Human Rights Treaties — Prof Anne Bayefsky's website providing documents from 1992. Search by State, category (jurisprudence, issues, reports) or by Theme/Subject Matter (civil rights, freedom of expression, habeas corpus).
- University Library of Regensberg's Electronic Journals Library — links to over 850 full-text academic law journals, many providing free access to articles.
- Using AGLC2 with EndNote9 (University of Queensland Library)
- Weblaw — a subject index to quality internet resources for Australian legal researchers. This Online Legal Access Project is co-ordinated by the Law Foundation of New South Wales.
- Writing Skills for Law from the UNE Academic Skills Office.