The database CODICES is an electronic
publication of the Venice Commission. Like its printed counterpart, the
Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law, CODICES regularly reports on the
case-law of constitutional courts and courts of equivalent jurisdiction - in
Europe but also in other parts of the world - together with case-law of the
European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European
Communities.
In addition to the more than 5000 summaries of decisions in English and
French, CODICES contains full texts of the judgements in the original language
or in translation, court descriptions, laws on the courts and constitutions. A
systematic thesaurus allows for easy access by topic to the summaries,
constitutions and laws.
CODICES is available via Internet and on CD-ROM, which has the advantage of
being more user-friendly. The CD-Rom is available from the
Council of Europe Publishing.
