COMPARATIVE LAW AND THE INTERNETNormann Witzleb, Dieter Martiny, Ulrich Thoelke and Tim Frericks (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)) |
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The WWW is already one of the most important devices for research on comparative law. Its
major strength lies in facilitating research on where certain information is published and how it
can be obtained. Increasingly, legal material itself is available online. Finding information
through search engines and link collections has become easier, but the unstructured and
uncontrolled nature of the WWW means that it depends very much on the nature of information
and search tools used whether one encounters the information required within a reasonable
amount of time. This article has two aims: It undertakes to give a survey of material on private law in
Europe currently available on the Internet, including some reflections on the present usefulness
of the Internet for comparative legal research. On a more practical level, this article also portrays
and introduces the 'virtuelle Rechtsvergleicher', a research tool designed to accommodate the
specific needs of comparative lawyers and to allow structured and easy access to legal sites in
this field. It presents the most important links to resources on uniform law, comparative law,
private international law, European Union Law as well as legal material and related information
on more than twenty European jurisdictions, the USA, Israel and Australia. |
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