Understand the legal world before you have to navigate it.
Plain-language guides to how laws, courts, and rights work in 195 countries. Start with yours, learn the concepts, and always know where to find official sources.
A plain-language guide to legal systems, official sources, and rights - to help you get oriented and ask better questions.
A law firm, a lawyer, or legal advice. It can't tell you what to do in your specific situation, or predict an outcome.
For real decisions or urgent matters, we point you to qualified professionals, legal aid, and official help.
From confusion to orientation, in four steps.
Start with a country profile: legal system, courts, official sources, and the categories that matter.
Move to plain-language lessons, a glossary, and short modules - built for non-specialists.
Search across countries and topics, and compare legal systems side by side.
Follow citations to official sources - and know when to seek qualified help.
Explore how every country's legal system works.
A lighthouse for the world's legal knowledge.
Law shapes every life, yet it is written to be understood by few. JusticeWiki is an attempt to open that knowledge to everyone - to take what is scattered, technical, and intimidating, and make it clear, sourced, and humane. We don't tell you what to do; we light the way, so that wherever you stand in the world, you can find your bearings and move toward justice with confidence.
Born at the Sorbonne. Built for everyone.
JusticeWiki was started by a student at the Law School of Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi - born from a simple conviction: that understanding the law should never be a privilege of the few. What began as one student's idea has grown into an open, non-profit, independent platform, offered freely to anyone, anywhere, who wants to understand the systems that shape their lives.
Everything in one trustworthy place.
Structured, sourced overviews of every country's legal system.
Short modules, a glossary, and quizzes to build legal literacy.
Vetted links to constitutions, courts, codes, and legal aid.
General information with citations, clear limits, and refusals - never advice.
Trust you can check, not just claims.
Every page is built to show its work - where information comes from, when it was reviewed, and where its limits are.
Primary and government sources, clearly labelled.
Claims link out so you can read the source yourself.
You always see how current a profile is.
Written to be read, with terms explained in context.
We say what we can't do, and where to get help.
Open-source, and built in public.
We're working toward plain-language profiles for all 195 countries - reviewed, sourced, and free for everyone. Editors, translators, and legal reviewers are welcome.