Law Reform Resources

Other Internet resources oriented toward law reform or legal research

Canada

• The Alberta Law Reform Institute
• The Law Reform Commission of Saskatchewan
• The Manitoba Law Reform Commission
• The Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia
• The Law Commission of Ontario
• The Quebec Civil Code Revision Office Archives
• The Law Commission of Canada (Archive of website)
• The Uniform Law Conference of Canada
• The Int’l Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy
• The Meeting of Commonwealth Law Reform Agencies, 1996

Commonwealth – Australia & New Zealand

• The New Zealand Law Commission
• The Australian Law Reform Commission
• The New South Wales Law Reform Commission
• The Queensland Law Reform Commission
• The Law Reform Commission of Western Australia
• The Victorian Law Reform Commission
• The Victorian Parliament Law Reform Committee
• The Tasmania Law Reform Institute
• The Northern Territory Law Reform Committee
• The South Australian Law Reform Institute

Commonwealth – Other Countries

Europe

• The Law Commission (England and Wales)
• The Law Reform Commission (Ireland)
• The Jersey Law Commission
• The Northern Ireland Law Commission
• The Scottish Law Commission

Africa

• ALRAESA – The Association of Law Reform Agencies for Eastern and Southern Africa
• The Malawi Law Commission
• The Law Reform Commission of Mauritius
• The South African Law Reform Commission
• The Law Reform Commission of Tanzania
• The Uganda Law Reform Commission

Asia and Australasia

• The Bangladesh Law Commission
• The Fiji Law Reform Commission
• The Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong
• The Law Commission of India
• The Law Revision and Reform Division, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Malaysia
• The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan
• The Constitutional and Law Reform Commission of Papua New Guinea
• The Singapore Law Reform and Revision Division
• The Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 
• The Law Commission of Sri Lanka
  
• The Samoa Law Reform Commission

Caribbean

• The Bahamas Law Reform and Revision Commission
• The Cayman Islands Law Reform Commission (Contact information listed separately)
• The Legal Reform Department, Ministry of Justice, Jamaica

United States

• The American Law Institute
• The Uniform Law Commission – Draft Uniform and Model Acts
• The California Law Revision Commission
• The Connecticut Law Revision Commission
• The Michigan Law Revision Commission
• The New Jersey Law Revision Commission
• The New York State Law Revision Commission
• The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Law Revision Commission
• The Oregon Law Commission

Specialized law reform agencies

• The UWS Centre for Elder Law (Australia)
• The Vanier Institute of the Family (Canada)
• The Delaware Family Law Commission (United States)

Agencies in other nations partly based upon common law

• The Caribbean Law Institute
• The Law Reform Commission of the Gambia
• The Thai Law Reform Commission

Miscellaneous – Canada

• The B.C. Supreme Court and Court of Appeals
• The British Columbia Courthouse Library
• The University of Montreal provides the full text of recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions
• The Canadian Legal Information Institute
• An index to Federal Royal Commissions.

Miscellaneous – Foreign and International

• The World Legal Information Institute
• The Commonwealth Association of Law Reform Agencies
• The International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law
• The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy

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