List of legal publishers by language area

The following list provides an overview on major legal publishers by language area.

English

Source: Locating the Law, Chapter 12

  1. [Estat Law](India)
  2. Executive Press
  3. LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, including
    • LexisNexis Butterworths (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa/Kagiso Media, India/Wadhwa Nagpur)
  4. vLex vLexJustis (US, UK, Canada, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, India, etc.)
  5. West Publishing, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, including
  6. Law.asia, including
    • Asia Business Law Journal
    • India Business Law Journal
    • China Business Law Journal
  7. Wolters Kluwer, including
  8. James Publishing (United States)
  9. Juta (South Africa)
  10. Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc. (United States)
  11. vLex (North America & UK)
  12. All India Reporter
  13. PLD Publishers, kausar law book publishers (Pakistan)
  14. Mainstream Law Reports (Bangladesh)
  15. LDC Publishers (Uganda)
  16. Whitelocke Publications (Oxford, New York, Luxembourg)
  17. Edward Elgar Publishing (USA, UK and International)
  18. Carolina Academic Press (USA)
  19. Bloomsbury Professional (UK and Ireland)
  20. Data Trace Publishing Company (United States)
  21. LexBooK, Athens (Greece and Cyprus)
  22. ΝΟΜΙΚΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ LEX BOOK (Greece)
  23. Intersentia/Larcier-Intersentia (UK/Belgium/International)

The following are or were legal publishers:

French

  1. Lefebvre, including

German

Source: ARSV

  1. Beck, including
  2. Boorberg
  3. Deutscher Anwaltverlag
  4. de Gruyter
  5. Heymanns (Wolters Kluwer)
  6. Juris (= Juristisches Informationssystem für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland)
  7. ÖGB Verlag, Vienna
  8. Manz, Vienna
  9. Mohr Siebeck
  10. Otto Schmidt
  11. Schulthess, Zürich
  12. Stämpfli, Bern

Greece, Cyprus

1. Sakkoulas Publications, Athens, Thessaloniki.[14]
2. Nomiki Bibliothiki Publications, Athens.[15]
3. Antonis N. Sakkoulas Publications, Athens.[16]
4. P. N. Sakkoulas Publications, Athens.[17]
5. LexBook, Athens.[18]

Notes

  1. ^ "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1990) 134 SJ XVII
  2. ^ a b c "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1988) 132 SJ XX
  3. ^ a b c d "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1990) 134 SJ XVII
  4. ^ Ambrogi, Robert J. The Essential Guide to the Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web. Second Edition. ALM Publishing. 2004. ISBN 978-1-58852-117-0. p 198. Digitized copy from Google Books.
  5. ^ "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1990) 132 SJ XVII
  6. ^ "Codify Legal Publishing | Home". Codify Legal Publishing. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015.
  7. ^ a b "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1989) 133 SJ XVIII
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1988) 132 SJ XX at XXI
  9. ^ "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1989) 133 SJ XXVIII
  10. ^ a b c "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1988) 132 SJ XX at XXII
  11. ^ "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1988) 132 SJ XX at XVII
  12. ^ "Books Reviewed and Legal Publishers" (1989) 133 SJ XVIII at XIX
  13. ^ ARLIS/NA Update. Art Libraries Society of North America. 1993.
  14. ^ "Εκδόσεις Σάκκουλα".
  15. ^ "Αρχική | Νομική Βιβλιοθήκη".
  16. ^ "Εκδόσεις Αντ. Ν. Σάκκουλα Ε. Ε. | Νομικά βιβλία και περιοδικά". Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  17. ^ "Π.Ν. Σάκκουλας - Εκδόσεις νομικών βιβλίων και περιοδικών".
  18. ^ "ΝΟΜΙΚΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ LEX BOOK".

Italian

Source: Overview of the Sources of Italian Law

  1. Giuffrè
  2. Wolters Kluwer Italia, including:
  3. Maggioli
  4. Giappichelli
  5. Il Sole 24 Ore Editore

Japanese

Source: Japanese Law via the Internet

  1. Dai-Ichi Hoki
  2. Shinnippon-Hoki (Westlaw)
  3. Yuhikaku

Russian

Major database providers are:

  1. ConsultantPlus
  2. Garant
  3. Kodeks

Spanish

  1. Sepín Editorial Jurídica Sepín
  2. vLex vLex (Spain and Latin America)
  3. Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi Thomson Reuters-Aranzadi
  4. Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer
  5. Marcial Pons Marcial Pons
  6. Tirant lo Blanch Tirant lo Blanch
  7. Reus Reus
  8. Dykinson Dykinson
  9. Lefebvre Lefebvre
  10. Tecnos Tecnos

Hindi

  1. Eastern Book Company (India)

Marathi

  1. Ajit Prakashan (India)

Portuguese

  1. AAFDL - Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa - Portugal
  2. Almedina - Brazil and Portugal
  3. Gestlegal - Portugal
  4. 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).

References