• Anderson’s Dictionary of Law (1893)
• Bernstein’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology
• Bouvier’s Law Dictionary (1856)
• Bulletin of Words and Phrases (Australia)
• Duhaime’s Legal Dictionary Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (University of Ghent)
• Everybody’s Legal Dictionary
• ‘Lectric Law Library’s Legal Lexicon’s Lyceum
• Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law
• Termes Jurdiques: Vocabulaire Français-Anglais (Quebec Justice Ministry, Judicial Terminology Commission)

• Australasian Legal Information Institute (University of Technology (Sydney) and University of New South Wales, Faculties of Law)
• Federal Web Locator (directory to United States Federal Government web sites, now maintained by Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law)
• Global Legal Information Network (United States Law Library of Congress)
• International Constitutional Law (Axel Tschentscher, Universitaet Wuerzburg Institut fur Rechtsphilosophie, Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht)
• Internet Law Library (former United States House of Representatives Internet Law Library)
• Law Lists (Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School)
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law School)
• WashLaw (Washburn University Law School)

• Australia (Office of Parliamentary Counsel)
• Australia: New South Wales (Office of Parliamentary Counsel)
• Australia: Queensland and localities (Office of the Queensland Parliamentary Counsel)
• China: Hong Kong (Department of Justice, Law Drafting Division)
• India: Himachal Pradesh (Law Department, Legislative Wing)
• United Kingdom: Scotland (Parliament)
• United States: Alaska (Legislative Affairs Office)
• United States: Arizona (J. Cavenee Smith, Council Attorney, Legislative Council)
• United States: Connecticut (Legislative Commissioners’ Office)
• United States: Hawaii (Ken H. Takayama, Assistant Director, Legislative Reference Bureau)
• United States: Illinois (by Richard C. Edwards, Executive Director, Legislative Reference Bureau)
• United States: Indiana (Legislative Council)
• United States: Maine (State Legislature, Office of the Reviser of Statutes)
• United States: Massachusetts (Counsel to the Senate)
• United States: Minnesota (Office of the Reviser of Statutes)
• United States: North Dakota (Legislative Council)
• United States: South Dakota (Legislative Research Council)
• United States: Texas (Legislative Council)
• United States: Utah (Legislature)
• United States: Washington (Statute Law Committee, Office of the Code Reviser)
• International Labour Organization: Labour Legislation Guidelines – chapters X and XI

• Australia: Victoria (Department of Premier and Cabinet, Office of the Chief Parliamentary Counsel)
• United States (National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register)
• United States: Alaska (Department of Law)
• United States: Connecticut (Legislative Commissioners’ Office)
• United States: Indiana (Legisaltive Council)
• United States: Minnesota (Office of the Revisor of Statutes)
• United States: Ohio (Legislative Service Commission)

• “The Genesis of Laws” by Hilary Penfold (First Parliamentary Counsel of Australia)

• Jurix 93 – Symposium on Legal Knowledge Based Systems:Intelligent Tools for Drafting Legislation and Computer-Supported Comparison of Law (Foundation for Legal Knowledge Systems)
• “Legislative Technique a Basis of a Legislative Drafting System” by Stijn Debaene, Raf van Kuyck and Bea Van Buggenhout

• “Gender Neutralizing State Laws” by Pamela Martin and James McKee

• “Colorado Legislative Law-Making and Legislative Intents” (Westminster Law Library, University of Denver College of Law)
• “Drafting Legislative Intent Statements” by Alice Boler Ackerman

• “A Paper Discussing Cases Where the Two Language Texts of an Enactment are Alleged to Be Different” by the Hong Kong Department of Justice (Law Drafting Division)

• “Be on the Cutting Edge: Learn These Seven Plain Language Principles Now!” by Carol Ann Wilson
• Clarity: The worldwide lawyers’ group campaigning for plain legal language
• “How to Write Well” (National Performance Review)
• “NLRB Style Manual: A Guide for Legal Writing in Plain English” by National Labor Relations Board
• Plain English Campaign (United Kingdom)
• “Plain English Manual” by the Australian Office of Parliamentary Counsel
• Plain Language Action Network—National Partnership for Reinventing Government
• Plain Language Association International

• “Attorney-Client Relationship and Legislative Lawyers: The State Legislature As Organizational Client” by Douglas G. Brown and Dan L. Cartin
• “Ethics and Politics of Drafting: A Review of David Marcello’s Presentation” by Bruce Feustel
• “OLLS Guidelines for Working with Lobbyists” Colorado General Assembly, Office of Legislative Legal Services

• “The (almost) million-dollar comma” by Karen Smith
• “Effect of Margins on Legislative Drafting” by Elliot Chabot

• “A tool-box approach to ‘shall'” by Jack Stark

• “Drafting Styles: Fuzzy or Fussy?” by Lisbeth Campbell

• Legislative Drafting: Principles and Techniques by B. R. Atre

Additional Afghanistan-Related Links

Websites of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Constitutions and selected laws, regulations, and treaties
Official Gazette of Afghanistan (1964 to present)
Pre-1964 Laws and Regulations of Afghanistan

President

Office of the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

Government Ministries

Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
Ministry of Commerce
Ministry of Communication
Ministry of Counter Narcotics
Ministry of Defense
Ministry of Finance
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Higher Education
Ministry of Justice
Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled
Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development
Ministry of Water and Power

National Assembly

National Assembly of Afghanistan (another site [bad link?])

Judiciary

Supreme Court of Afghanistan
Attorney General’s Office

Electoral Commissions

Joint Electoral Management Body
Independent Election Commission
Electoral Complaints Commission

Other Afghan Government-Affiliated Websites

Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)
Constitutional Commission
Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)
Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB, the Central Bank)
Afghanistan Investment Support Agency (AISA)
Central Statistics Office
Afghanistan’s New Beginnings Program
Afghan Election Results
Afghanistan Center at Kabul University
Afghanistan Online Library

Embassies

Embassy of Afghanistan, Australia and New Zealand
Embassy of Afghanistan, Canada
Embassy of Afghanistan, France
Embassy of Afghanistan, Japan
Embassy of Afghanistan, Malaysia
Embassy of Afghanistan, Norway
Embassy of Afghanistan, Poland
Embassy of Afghanistan, South Korea
Embassy of Afghanistan, United States

Full List of Diplomatic Representations of Afghanistan

United Nations Bodies and Agencies

United Nations Home Page
United Nations Security Council (UNSC)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) — UNDP Afghanistan
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) UNHCR Afghanistan
Afghanistan Information Management Systems (AIMS)
Food and Agriculture Program (FAO) — FAO Afghanistan
International Labor Organization (ILO) — ILO’s NATLEX Database of National Labor Law — Afghanistan
International Organization for Migration (IOM) — IOM’s Return of Qualified Afghans Program
United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan (UNAMA)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) — UNICEF Afghanistan
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UN Women) — UN Women Afghanistan
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
United Nations Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) — IRIN Asia
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) — UNODC Afghanistan
World Food Program (WFP) — WFP Afghanistan

Other Foreign and Multilateral Institutions and Agencies

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Dutch Development Cooperation — Afghanistan
Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO)
European Commission (EC)
European Union (EU)
French Foreign Ministry
German Technical Cooperation — (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit) (GTZ)
International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
International Institute for the Unification of Higher Law (UNIDROIT)
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)
United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) — USAID Afghanistan
United States Department of Commerce — Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force
United States Law Library of Congress — Afghanistan
World Bank

Media Organizations

Afghan Press Monitor
Al Jazeera
Bakhter Information Agency
BBC South Asia
CNN Asia
Development Gateway—Afghanistan Reconstruction
Eurasianet / Afghanistan
Hindukush
Institutue for War and Peace Reporting
Internews
Moby Capital Updates
Newsline Southwestern Asia and the Middle East
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty—Afghanistan Report

Afghan and Foreign Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) and Other Private Entities

Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce
Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce
Afghanistan Digital Library
Afghanistan Reconstruction Project, Center for International Cooperation, New York University
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
Afghanistan Research Group
Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN)
Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR)
American Bar Association (ABA)
Amnesty International
Australasian Legal Information Institute
Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska
Finding the Law: Islamic Law / Shari’a
FindLaw: Afghanistan
German Afghanistan Archive, Institute of Development Research and Policy, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Mediothek fur Afghanistan
Hieros Gamos
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Watch
Institute for Afghan Studies
International Crisis Group
International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC)
Legifrance
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Reliefweb Afghanistan
Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht
University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies — Islamic Law: Afghanistan
University of Michigan Law Library, Afghanistan Law Guide
University of Pittsburgh School of Law / JURIST
Washburn University Law Library