List of legal publishers by language area

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

English

Source:

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 Westlaw FindLaw
6. , including Asia Business Law Journal India Business Law Journal China Business Law Journal
7. Wolters Kluwer, including CCH (Commerce Clearing House)
8. (United States)
9. (South Africa)
10. (United States)
11. vLex (North America & UK)
12. PLD Publishers, kausar law book publishers (Pakistan)
13. (Bangladesh)
14. LDC Publishers (Uganda)
15. Whitelocke Publications (Oxford, New York, Luxembourg)
16. Edward Elgar Publishing (USA, UK and International)
17. Carolina Academic Press (USA)
18. Bloomsbury Professional (UK and Ireland)
19. (United States)
20. LexBooK, Athens (Greece and Cyprus)
21. (Greece)
22. (UK/Belgium/International)

The following are or were legal publishers:

• 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
• Tolley Publishing Co Ltd
• Waterlow Directories
• Waterlow Publishers
• William S. Hein
• Whitelocke Publications

French

1. Lefebvre, including Dalloz

German

Source:

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

Notes

Italian

Source:

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

Japanese

Source:

1. (Westlaw)

Russian

Major database providers are:

1. ConsultantPlus
2. Garant
3. Kodeks

Spanish

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

Hindi

1. (India)

Marathi

1. (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).