PACIFIC LEGAL GATEWAY

Regional Law Collections

• High Court of the Western Pacific
• Law Reports of the Commonwealth
  - Index of Judgments from the Pacific Islands (1980-2003)
• South Pacific Law Reports (SPLR) (1987-1988)
• Pacific Human Rights Law Digest - Volume 1-5
• Reports of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
• Western Pacific Legislation

Pacific Islands Law Journals

• Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific / Journal de Droit Compare du Pacifique
• Journal of South Pacific Law
• Melanesian Law Journal
• The Underlying Law Journal: Developments in the Underlying Law of Papua New Guinea

General Materials relating to Law in the Pacific

• Anthropology of Law in the Pacific: Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review - Graeme Whimp (2016)
• An Analysis of Judicial Sentencing Practices in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Cases in the Pacific Island Region - ICAAD (2015)

Pacific Islands Law-related Conferences and Networks

• Pacific Constitutions Research Network (PCN)
• Pacific Law and Culture Conference
• PacLII Regional Workshop on Online Publication October 2010
• Australasian Law Reform Agencies Conference (ALRAC) 2008
• Law via the Internet Conference 2005

By Source/Subject:

• Human Rights
• Inter-Government Organisations
• Non-Government Organisations
• Law Reform
• Lawyers
• More

By Jurisdiction:

• Click on a jurisdiction name in the map below.

A selection of media sources and listings for the Pacific Islands region.

Regional

• Pacific Islands Report: News and Information Links
  List of Pacific Islands newspapers, magazines, journals and radio/television websites
• Pacific Media Watch
• Pacific Islands News Association (PINA)
• Islands Business
• Radio Australia - Pacific Beat

Jurisdiction

• American Samoa - Samoa News
• CNMI - Saipan Tribune
• Cook Islands - Cook Islands News
• Fiji - Fiji Sun | Fiji Times
• FSM - The Kaselehlie Press
• Guam - Pacific Daily News
• Marshall Islands - Yokwe Online
• Papua New Guinea - Post-Courier
• Samoa - Samoa Observer
• Solomon Islands - Solomon Star | Solomon Times
• Tonga - Matangi Tonga | Planet Tonga
• Vanuatu - Daily Post

Legal Dictionaries

• Black's Law Dictionary
• Law.com Dictionary
• Nolo's Free Dictionary of Law
• A to Z Guide to Legal Phrases

Legal Abbreviations and Citations

• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
  Look up international citations
• Guide to Foreign and Legal Citation (2006) (PDF)
  Produced by the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, this guide outlines citation standards for 37 countries
• LawCite
  International case and journal citator

Legal Research Guides

• GlobalLex - Introduction to Researching South Pacific Law (2014)
  by Peter Murgatroyd
• Law of the Pacific Islands: a guide to web based resources (2008)
  by Ruth Bird, Anna Matich and Dianne Thompson
• Legal Research Reports
  The Law Library of Congress (US). Reports by subject, produced primarily for members of Congress.
• PacLII User Guide
  Instructions on how to use the PacLII resource

Free Access to International Law

• AustLII
  Access to Australian public legal information, including the Australian Treaties Library.
• BAILII
  Access to British and Irish public legal information, including the UK Treaty Library. All available from the BAILII databases link.
• CommonLII
  Access to 60 Commonwealth and Common Law countries. Full text access of the English Reports (1220-1873)
• Constitute: the World's Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare
  Access to the world’s constitutions
• LegiGlobe
  Global legal website in French and is a project of the Francophone Network of Legal Diffusion.
• Les Essentiels du droit (Gallica)
  donnent accès à une sélection de titres fondamentaux numérisés à partir des collections patrimoniales de la BnF et consultables dans Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France
• NZLII
  Access to New Zealand public legal information, including the New Zealand Treaty Series.
• WorldLII
  Gateway to other Legal Information Institute (LII) websites and access to human rights laws, international court decisions and treaties. Provides a single search facility for material available via participating LIIs.
• Other free access to law websites

International Treaties and Related Publications

• ICRC Treaties and State Parties to Such Treaties
• Jurisprudence
  UN Human Rights Office online database of treaty body case law
• The Big Nine: Human Rights Conventions and Related Human Rights Documents (PDF, 1MB)
  Prepared by the Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) of The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) 2014
• United Nations Treaty Collection

International Legal Gateways

• WorldLII Catalog
• World Law Guide (Lexadin)
• Global & Comparative Law Resources (The Law Library of Congress (US))
• GlobalLex (Hauser Global Law School Program)

International Legal Scholarship

• Google Scholar
  Search engine for scholarly literature.
• Legal Scholarship Network
  Free subscription to global scholarly research.
• Digital Commons Network
  Open access to research journals.
• WorldLII - International Legal Scholarship Library
  Provides a single search facility for all academic law journals available via WorldLII and other Legal Information Institutes (LIIs)