List of Law Publishers in the World

Note: there are a most comprehensive list in the Resources section.

Domination of the legal information market

Over the last decades, more in some countries (United States, United Kingom, Spain) than others, many of the smaller, independent legal publishers have been acquiring by major legal and non-legal publishing conglomerates.

The largest publishers of legal information, specially in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, are Reed Elsevier (LexisNexis, Matthew Bender, and Martindale Hubbell), Thomson Reuters (West, RIA, and Sweet and Maxwell), Wolters Kluwer (Commerce Clearing House or CCH, Aspen, and Loislaw) and Bloomberg (Bureau of National Affairs or BNA).

Reed Elsevier became owner of Lexis in 1994 and achieved a collection of treatises through the acquisitions of the Michie Company.

According to Peter W. Martin:

“Wolters Kluwer, too, assembled a large set of law titles through a series of publisher acquisitions in the 1990s – CCH in 1996, Little, Brown’s medical and legal division in 1997, and Wiley Law Publications division in 1998. The company’s purchase of LoisLaw in 200227 brought the resulting treatise catalog together with an online legal research service. Because of LoisLaw’s limited market share, Wolters Kluwer has also licensed treatise content to Westlaw.

BNA survived as an independent publisher of legal commentary until 2012 when Bloomberg Law, a relatively new player the online legal information market, purchased the company from its employee owners. The same year Bloomberg licensed exclusive online distribution rights to the Practising Law Institute treatise titles (“PLI Treatises & Course Handbooks: No Longer Available through Law School License w/ Westlaw”, Brooklaw Library Weblog).”

United Nations Publishing

• World Intellectual Property Organization (Legal Publisher): World Intellectual Property Association
• United Nations Publications: United Nations Publications
  

  Legal Publishers in Belgium and Luxembourg

  • Larcier (De Boeck Group)
  • Promoculture-Larcier (De Boeck Group)
  • Bruylant publishing (De Boeck Group)

  Legal Publishers in France

  • Juris-Classeur (Lexis Nexis)
  • Lefebvre, including Dalloz
  • De Boeck Group (see Belgium)

  Legal Publishers in the United Kingdom

  • Cambridge University Press
  • Oxford University Press
  • Longman
  • Jordan
  • Prantice Hall
  • Sweet & Maxwell (Thomson Reuters)
  • Informa PLC: Informa
  • Euromoney Institutional Investor plc: Euromoney

  Legal Publishers in Austria

  Manz (Vienna)

  Legal Publishers in Poland

  Wolters Kluwer Polska

  Legal Publishers in Spain

  • Aranzadi
  • Vlex

  Legal Publishers in Germany

  • C. H. Beck, including Nomos
  • Boorberg
  • De Gruyter
  • Heymanns (Wolters Kluwer)
  • Juristisches Informationssystem für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Juris)
  • Mohr Siebeck
  • Otto Schmidt

  Legal Publishers in Grece

  Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publishers

  Legal Publishers in Denmark

  Karnov Group Denmark

  Legal Publishers in Italy

  • Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore
  • De Agostini (Wolters Kluwer), including Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese (UTET)

  Legal Publishers in Switzerland

  • Schulthess, Zürich
  • Stampfli, Bern (Berne)

  Legal Publishers in Japan

  • Dai-Ichi Hoki
  • Shinnippon-Hoki (Westlaw)
  • Yuhikaku

  Legal Publishers in Portugal

  • Edições Almedina (Almedina Group)
  • Edições 70 (Almedina Group)
  • Actual Editora and Joaquim Machado (Almedina Group)

  Legal Publishers in Russia

  • ConsultantPlus
  • Garant
  • Kodeks
  • Referent

  Legal Publishers in Canada

• Canada Law Book, Inc.: Canada Law Book’s
• CCH Canadian Limited: CCH Canadian Limited
• Carswell Legal Publications: Carswell’s
• Lexis Nexis Canada: Lexis Nexis Canada

• List of Law Book Publishers whose main market is the United States

  Reed Elsevier (a listed Dutch group, owner of LexisNexis and Martindale Hubbell) and Wolters Kluwer are not U.S. companires, but their main market has been traditionally the United States, and this is why they are included in this list.
  Some of the major but independent American legal publishers include ALI-ABA (American Law Institute-American Bar Association), American Bar Association, California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), Daily Journal Corporation, Matthew Bender, Nolo Press, The Rutter Group and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)

• ABC-CLIO (distribution of law information):(Includes Greenwood, Libraries Unlimited, Praeger): ABC-CLIO
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA): AICPA
• A.M. Best Company: A.M. Best
• Alert Publications, Inc.: Alert Publications
• American Arbitration Association: American Arbitration
• American Bankers Association: American Bankers Association
• The American Bar (Forster-Long, LLC) (distribution of law information): The American Bar
• American Bar Association: ABA
• American Bar Foundation: American Bar Foundation
• American Law Institute: ALI
• American Lawyer Media (ALM): American Lawyer’s
• American Legal Publishing Corp.: American Legal Publishing Corporation
• American Maritime Cases, Inc.: American Maritime Cases
• American Society of International Law (ASIL): ASIL’s
• ALI-ABA: ALI-ABA
• Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business: Aspen/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• A.S. Pratt & Sons (distribution of law information):(A division of Sheshunoff Info. Services)
  A.S. Pratt Webpage
• Atlantic Law Book Co.: Atlantic Law Book Company
• Banks & Jordan Law Publishing Co.: Banks & Jordan
• BarristerBooks: BarristerBooks
• Berkeley Electronic Press:Berkeley Electronic Press
• Bernan:Bernan’s
• Bloomberg Law:Bloomberg Law
• Bloomberg BNA: Bloomberg BNA
• Bloomberg BNA Books: Bloomberg BNA Books Webpage
• Bowker (distribution of law information): See R.R. Bowker LLC
• Cameron May Ltd: Cameron May’s
• Carroll Publishing Company: Carroll Publishing
• CCH/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business: CCH/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI): CALI’s
• Claitor’s Law Books and Publishing Division: Claitor’s
• Congressional Information Service (distribution of law information):See Proquest
• CQ Press: CQ Press
• Daily Journal Corp.: Daily Journal
• Data Trace Publishing Co.: Data Trace Publishing
• EBSCO: EBSCO’s
• Environmental Law Institute: Environmental Law Institute
• Executive Press, Inc.: Corporate Counsel
• Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB): Financial Accounting Standards Board
• Gaunt, Inc.: Gaunt’s
• GPO (distribution of law information):See United States Government Printing Office
• Greenwood Publishing Group (distribution of law information):See ABC-CLIO
• Haworth Press, Inc. (Taylor & Francis): Haworth Press Page
• Hein (distribution of law information): See William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
• H.W. Wilson Company: Wilson Webpage
• IndexMaster: IndexMaster
• Infosources Publishing: Infosources Publishing
• Irwin Law Inc.: Irwin Law
• James Publishing: James Publishing
• John Wiley & Sons., Inc. (distribution of law information):See Wiley
• Jones McClure Publishing: Jones McClure
• Jossey-Bass: Jossey-Bass
• Juris Publishing: Juris Publishing
• Jury Verdict Research (JVR): Jury Verdict Research
• Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.: Kiplinger
• Kluwer Law International: Kluwer Law International
• Knowles Publishing: Knowles Publishing
• Law Journal Press (ALM): Law Journal Press
• Law360: Law360
• Law.com (distribution of law information): See American Lawyer Media
• LawCatalog.com (distribution of law information): See American Lawyer Media
• Lawpress Corporation: Lawpress Corporation
• Lawyers USA: Lawyers USA
• Leadership Directories Inc.: Leadership Directories
• Legal Directories Publishing Co., Inc.: Legal Directories Publishing
• Lexis Law Publishing: Lexis Law School
• LexisNexis UK/Butterworths/Tolley: LexisNexis UK
• LRP Publications Lexis (Jury Verdict Research) (distribution of law information):LRP Publications
• M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC: M. Lee Smith Publishers
• Martindale-Hubbell: Martindale.com
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL):
  Uniform Law Commission
• National Consumer Law Center: National Consumer Law Center
• NOLO Press: NOLO
• O’Connor’s (distribution of law information):See Jones McClure Publishing
• Oceana Publications, Inc. (distribution of law information):(Part of Oxford University Press)
  Oceana Online Services Webpage
• Practising Law Institute (PLI): Practising Law Institute
• Practitioners Publishing Company (distribution of law information): (Thomson Reuters PPC)
  PPC Webpage
• Proquest LLC (distribution of law information): Proquest
• Quinlan Publishing Group (distribution of law information):(Now part of Thomson West)
• R.C. Simpson, Inc. (distribution of law information): (Arbitrators’ Qualifications Report Service): R.C. Simpson
• Rhode Island LawPress (distribution of law information):(Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual): Rhode Island LawPress
• RIA Group: (Part of Thomson Reuters): RIA’s
• R.R. Bowker LLC: Bowker’s
• Sage Publications: www.sagepub.com
• Sheshunoff Information Services: Sheshunoff
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN): SSRN
• Specialty Technical Publishers: Specialty Technical Publishers
• Springer Publishing Corporation: Springer
• State Net (distribution of law information):(Now part of LexisNexis): State Net
• Strafford Publications, Inc.: Strafford Publications
• Tax Analysts: Tax Analysts
• Taylor and Francis Group: Taylor and Francis
• Thompson Publishing Group, Inc. (distribution of law information): (not affiliated with Thomson Reuters / West): Thompson Publishing Group
• Thomson West (distribution of law information): Thomson West
• United Communications Group (UCG): United Communications Group
• United States Government Printing Office: Government Printing Office
• WG&L (distribution of law information):(Part of Thomson Reuters)
• William S. Hein & Co., Inc.: Hein’s
• Wiley: Wiley’s
• Wolters Kluwer Law & Business: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business