Law Reform Commissions

Law Reform Commissions are independent think tanks which study and publish reports on legal reform. These usually summarize the law on a given topic, show why the law shouds be changed, and propose these reforms to government. Recent reports from some law reform commissions are available on the internet. The BC Law Reform Institute maintains at its website an database to over 7000 publications of law reform bodies around the world.

The Priestly Law Library collects law reform commission reports in print (locate using the online catalogue) and in the microform World Law Reform Collection (Law Micro KF384 A1W58 cabinet 12). The World Law Reform Collection: jurisdiction and subject index is available online with full-text pdf files from 1999.

Index to Law Reform Materials

  • Law Reform Database, from the B.C. Law Institute: http://www.bcli.org
    • Indexes over 6850 law reform materials from common law jurisdictions around the world.

    Updated to June 15, 2005.

  • WorldLII Law Reform Project
    The project aims to make searchable from one location all of the databases specialising in Law Reform available on any of the Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) that are part of WorldLII. The databases currently included are the law commissions of Australia, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, and England.

Links to Provincial Law Reform Websites:

Links to Canadian Law Reform Websites:

Links to Foreign Law Reform Websites:

 

Last updated October 2005

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