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. Executive Press
2. LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier, including
   • LexisNexis Butterworths (UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa/Kagiso Media, India/Wadhwa Nagpur)
3. West Publishing, a subsidiary of Thomson Reuters, including
   • Westlaw
   • FindLaw
4. Wolters Kluwer, including
   • CCH (Commerce Clearing House)
5. James Publishing (United States)
6. Juta (South Africa)
7. Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, Inc. (United States)
8. vlex (North America & UK)
9. All India Reporter
10. PLD Publishers,kausar law book publishers (Pakistan)
11. Mainstream Law Reports (Bangladesh)
12. LDC Publishers (Uganda)
13. Russell Square Publishing(London, New York, Singapore, The Hague, Luxembourg)

The following are or were legal publishers:

• ARK Group
• Bedford Square Press^[1]
• Blackstone Press^[2]
• Blackwell Scientific Publications^[3]
• Blay's Guides^[4]
• Butterworths^[5]
• Cameron May^[6]
• CCH Editions^[7]
• Chancery Law Publishing^[8]
• Codify Legal Publishing^[9]
• ESC Publishing^[10]
• Fourmat Publishing^[11]
• Henry Stewart Publications^[12]
• Jordans & Sons^[13]
• Kluwer Law^[14]
• Legal Action Group^[15]
• Lloyd's of London Press^[16]
• Longmans,^[17] (Longman Law Tax & Finance)^[18]
• MBC Information Services^[19]
• Oxford University Press^[20]
• Pitman Publishing^[21]
• Shaw & Sons^[22]
• Sweet & Maxwell^[23]
• Tolley Publishing Co Ltd^[24]
• Waterlow Directories^[25]
• Waterlow Publishers^[26][27]
• William S. Hein^[28]

French

1. Lefebvre, including
   • Dalloz

German

Source: ARSV

1. Beck, including
   • Nomos
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

Italian

Source: Overview of the Sources of Italian Law

1. Giuffrè
2. Wolters Kluwer Italia, including:
   • UTET Giuridica
   • IPSOA
   • CEDAM
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. vLex (Spain and Latin America)

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