Higher Regional School of Magistracy (ERSUMA)

Porto-Novo, Bénin

View of the Documentation center of ERSUMA

The aim of the Documentation Center is to contribute to the dissemination and improvement of knowledge on OHADA law, business law and other Community laws in Africa. It is open to the public and has a wealth of documentation specialized in the field of law.

Available documents cover the following areas:

  • OHADA law
  • General Commercial law
  • Community Laws
  • Accounting law – Tax Law
  • Arbitration Law
  • Intellectual Property law
  • Business Law – Civil Law – Public Law
  • Insurance law
  • Contract law
  • Law of Obligations
  • Insolvency law
  • Simplified debt recovery and enforcement measures law
  • Commercial companies and EIGs
  • Securities law
  • Transportation law
  • Criminal business Law – Financial Crimes
  • Case law

As part of the common platform of documentation centers of OHADA institutions called OHADA digital library, the Centre has over 3 000 bibliographic records and 340 journal articles.

The center also provides access to the full content of more than 300 documents (training materials and journal articles). Click to access the online digital library: http://biblio.ohada.org

Products and services

The Centre offers the following products and services:

  • On site consultation of documents
  • Internal lending of documents
  • Internet access to search online information
  • Assistance to users
  • List of new acquisitions via OPAC
  • Selective disclosure of information (DSI)

Schedules

The Documentation Centre is open Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 12:30 and afternoon from 3pm to 6h30pm. It is closed on Saturdays.