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National Constitutions

Portals, Directories, Programs and Secondary Sources

• Confinder (University of Richmond)
• Constitutional Laws of Nations of the World
• International Constitutional Law (including foreign constitutions)
• Boston University Law Library's Foreign Constitutions page
  

• Charter of Fundamental Rights (html), (pdf)
• European Convention on Human Rights (pdf), (html)
• Treaty establishing the European Community, 2002 Consolidated Version
• Treaty of European Union, 2002 Consolidated Version
• Treaty Establishing a Constitution for European Union (html), (pdf)
• Directive 2004/38/EC (Free Movement Directive) (pdf)
• Directive 2000/78/EC (Framework Employment Directive) (pdf)
• Directive 2000/43/EC (Race Directive) (pdf)
• European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (html), (word)

   

• N-Lex (Portal to the National Law of the Member States of the European Union)
• European Union - Human Rights Activities (through Europa)
• European Parliament - Human Rights
• Jean Monnet Program - European Interest Links focused on Human Rights
• Legal Journals Index (via Westlaw)
• Eur-Lex
• Law Links: European Union

National Courts

European Court of Justice

European Court of Human Rights

• Germany (decisions in German)
• Italy(judgment summaries database, abstractsof recent judgments - English)
• France(judgment database)
• Ireland(judgment database)
• **Constitutional Courts worldwide (through Council of Europe)

• The Institution
• Judicial Proceedings (Calendar)
• Press Releases
• Case database
• Statute of the Court of Justice

• The Institution
• Pending Cases
• Basic Texts
• HUDOC database
• Press releases (search)

Selected Landmark Cases of National Courts

Selected Landmark Cases of the ECJ

Selected Landmark Cases of the ECtHR

• Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child v. Grogan (through BAILII) (rtf)
• Kremzow v. Austria (through WORLDLII) (html)

• Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child v. Grogan (html)
• Stauder v. City of Ulm, Sozialamt (from Eur-Lex)
• Familiapress Zeitungsverlag (in German, Spanish)
• Foto-frost v. Hauptzollamt Lubeck-Ost (html)
• Carpenter v. Sec. of State for Home Dept. (pdf) , judgment , opinion of advocate general
• Chen and Zhu v. Sec. of State for Home Dept., judgment (notice for the OJ, html) (pdf)
• Connolly v. Commission of the European Communities (html), opinion of advocate general
• Baumbast v. UK, (pdf), opinion of advocate general

• Leyla Sahin v. Turkey, Application 44774/98 (word)
• Case of Open Door and Dublin Well Women v. Ireland, Applications 14234/88 and 14235/88 (via WORLDLII)

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