The following list provides an overview on major legal publishers by language area.
English Source: Locating the Law, Chapter 12
[Estat Law](India) Executive Press LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, including LexisNexis Butterworths (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa/Kagiso Media, India/Wadhwa Nagpur) vLex vLexJustis (US, UK, Canada, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, etc.) West Publishing, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, including Westlaw FindLaw Law.asia, including Asia Business Law Journal India Business Law Journal China Business Law Journal Wolters Kluwer, including CCH (Commerce Clearing House) James Publishing (United States) Juta (South Africa) Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc. (United States) vLex (North America & UK) All India Reporter PLD Publishers, kausar law book publishers (Pakistan) Mainstream Law Reports (Bangladesh) LDC Publishers (Uganda) Whitelocke Publications (Oxford, New York, Luxembourg) Edward Elgar Publishing (USA, UK and International) Carolina Academic Press (USA) Bloomsbury Professional (UK and Ireland) Data Trace Publishing Company (United States) LexBooK, Athens (Greece and Cyprus) ΝΟΜΙΚΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ LEX BOOK (Greece) Intersentia/Larcier-Intersentia (UK/Belgium/International) The following are or were legal publishers:
ARK Group Bedford Square Press Blackstone Press Blackwell Scientific Publications Blay's Guides Butterworths Cameron May CCH Editions Chancery Law Publishing Codify Legal Publishing ESC Publishing Fourmat Publishing Henry Stewart Publications Jordans & Sons Kluwer Law Legal Action Group Lloyd's of London Press Longmans, (Longman Law Tax & Finance) MBC Information Services Oxford University Press Pitman Publishing Shaw & Sons Sweet & Maxwell Trial Guides Tolley Publishing Co Ltd Waterlow Directories Waterlow Publishers William S. Hein Whitelocke Publications
French Lefebvre, including Dalloz
German Source: ARSV
Beck, including Nomos Boorberg Deutscher Anwaltverlag de Gruyter Heymanns (Wolters Kluwer) Juris (= Juristisches Informationssystem für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) ÖGB Verlag, Vienna Manz, Vienna Mohr Siebeck Otto Schmidt Schulthess, Zürich Stämpfli, Bern
Greece, Cyprus 1. Sakkoulas Publications, Athens, Thessaloniki. 2. Nomiki Bibliothiki Publications, Athens. 3. Antonis N. Sakkoulas Publications, Athens. 4. P. N. Sakkoulas Publications, Athens. 5. LexBook, Athens.
Italian Source: Overview of the Sources of Italian Law
Giuffrè Wolters Kluwer Italia, including: UTET Giuridica IPSOA CEDAM Maggioli Giappichelli Il Sole 24 Ore Editore
Japanese Source: Japanese Law via the Internet
Dai-Ichi Hoki Shinnippon-Hoki (Westlaw) Yuhikaku
Russian Major database providers are:
ConsultantPlus Garant Kodeks
Spanish Sepín Editorial Jurídica Sepín vLex vLex (Spain and Latin America) Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer Marcial Pons Marcial Pons Tirant lo Blanch Tirant lo Blanch Reus Reus Dykinson Dykinson Lefebvre Lefebvre Tecnos Tecnos
Hindi Eastern Book Company (India)
Marathi Ajit Prakashan (India)
Portuguese AAFDL - Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa - Portugal Almedina - Brazil and Portugal Gestlegal - Portugal vLex - Brazil and Portugal
Further reading Society of Public Teachers of Law Working Party on Law Publishing. Law Publishing and Legal Scholarship. 1977. (contains a list of more than twenty publishers with law lists).
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