Estonian Legal Links

by Gundars Kaupins, Boise State University

Being Updated March 2007-August 2007

The purpose of this link page is to provide useful business links associated with Estonia.  There is no commercial purpose or personal financial gain from this link page.  Most links include a title, languages used, services, and a brief description of the mission and purpose of the site.  Services include search engines, blogs, on-line polls, site of origin (e.g., .lv, .com, .net) and transactions.  Transactions could be nonfinancial (e.g., registration) to financial (e.g., payment of fees) Almost every brief description is a direct quote from the link.  Most of these direct quotes will refer to either the mission or objectives of the link.

 

AutoWeb Traffic Information (Est)  Estonian traffic laws and information

Bi-Info Ltd. (E, Est, R) Web-search for Estonian laws, study courses, goods and services information exchange

Database of Estonian Laws (Est) Excellent source of Estonian legislation with full texts

DELFI Citizens' Page (Est) Estonian legal information

ESTLEX - Law Database of Estonia (Est) Excellent source of Estonian legislation with full texts
Estonia and Human Rights (E, Est, R) Summary of human rights laws, organizations, and programs in Estonia

Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Est, E, R) Provides international promotions, Euroinfo center, legal assistance, training, foreign trade consultation, rent of rooms, database and library.

Estonian Government Web Site (E, Est, R)  Base website for major Estonian governmental organizations

Estonian Prosecutors Office (Est)  

Estonian Translation and Legislative Support Centre (E, Est) Includes English version of Estonian laws

EU and Estonian agreement (Est) 

Eumap.org (E)  "The EU Accession Monitoring Program of the Open Society Institute monitors human rights and the rule of law in Europe.  Databases covered include minority rights, the judiciary, corruption, equal opportunities, health and disability rights, media independence, and refugees and migrants."

European Agency for Safety at Work (E) "The Agency has entered into bilateral arrangements with many third countries and international organizations to share information in the field of safety and health at work. The result of this co-operation can be accessed online via the Agency’s websites and the joint websites established by its network partners. In this section we present an overview of our growing international safety and health network. Site provides many legal, health, and other links."

Forum for Legislative Drafting (R, Est)

Gambling Taxes Council (Est) Gambling tax laws and policies

Hieros Gamos (Lv, E, many other languages) Comprehensive legal information center

Internet catalogue of Estonian Law Centre Foundation (Est) Links to Estonian and European laws

Internet Legal Resource Guide (E) "A categorized index of more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as thousands of locally stored web pages, legal forms, and downloadable files, this site was established in 1995 to serve as a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the United States of America. Designed for everyone, lay persons and legal scholars alike, it is quality controlled to include only the most substantive legal resources online."

Ministry of Social Affairs (E, Est, R) "Ministry in the Estonian government covers social welfare, health, the labor market, work life, gender equality, and legislation."

Mishpat (E) Legal Resources for Estonia

National Court of the Republic of Estonia (Est)

Rakvere Child Welfare Union (E, Est) Links to social welfare and health, advocacy and rule of law, and human rights.

Sorainen Baltic Legal Updates (E)Quarterly updates of legislation in all Baltic states.

Tartu District Court (Est)

Thekla Group (Est) Estonian tax laws

 

World "Focus"

Eagle-i (E)

Find-Law Internet Legal Resources (E)

Global Legal Information Network (E)

Hieros (legal research) Gamos (E)

Internet Legal Resource Guide (E)

International Court of Justice (E)

International Labor Organization (E)

International Law Commission (E)

Jurispudence Web (Jurweb): (E)

Law Library Resource Exchange (E)

Legal Information Institute (E)

Lexicon (Lexadin) (E)

Social Science Information Gateway (E)

WWW Virtual Library (E)

European Focus

EUR-Lex - European Union law (E)

European Court of Human Rights (E)

 

Language Key

(E) English
(Lv) Latvian
(Lt) Lithuanian
(Est) Estonian
(R) Russian
(G) German
(F) French
(S) Swedish
(P) Polish
other languages are fully spelled out

 

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