Foreign Law

Foreign Law

Embassies/Currency Converter/Dictionaries/Constitutions/Comparative Law/Foreign Laws & Information/Country Information/Periodical Index, Guides

Information on the world's legal systems, including constitutions, codes, legislation and judicial decisions of many foreign jurisdictions.

Embassies
Links to foreign embassies in Washington, D.C.

Currency Converter

Dictionaries

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

Index of Online Dictionaries
Links to dictionaries in over 300 languages.

EURODICAUTOM (EU Commission’s Multilingual Term Bank)

Babelfish (AltaVista's Translation Service)
Translation of text or an entire web site.

Constitutional Courts
Links to constitutional courts and equivalent bodies.

Constitutions - International Constitutional Law

The Constitution Finder (U. of Richmond)

National Constitutions (Constitution Society)

Political Database of the Americas (Center for Latin American Studies)
Links to constitutions, legislation, and other political information of nations in the Americas.

Multinational Collections Database (Library of Congress)
Sources reprinting laws of international jurisdictions on selected topics.

Foreign Law: Subject Collections on the Web (Globalex)
Collections of domestic law arranged by topic.

Concourts.net
Comparative analysis of the systems of constitutional review of different countries, including tables and maps showing the different methods of constitutional or judicial review.

Criminal Law Resources (Buffalo Criminal Law Center, SUNY)
Links to U.S. and foreign criminal codes, codes of criminal procedure and other criminal legislation.

Islamic Family Law (Emory University)
Country-by-country profiles of Islamic Family Law systems. Click on “Legal” button (best viewed in Mozilla Firefox browser).

Legislationline (OSCE)
Links to English texts of legislation of OSCE countries on the police, prisons, right to a fair trial, citizenship, the death penalty, etc.

Private Comparative Law Page (Universitat de Girona)
Links to resources on European private and comparative law.

WIPO’s Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA)
Collection of IP legislation (in English) from WIPO member countries.

World Bank’s Doing Business Law Library
Links to the full text of U.S and foreign business/commercial laws, civil codes and codes of civil procedure.

World Legal Systems (Faculty of Law, U. Ottawa)
Basic information on the legal systems of countries throughout the world plus a description of the main legal systems.

Global Legal Information Network - GLIN (Library of Congress)
Legal sources contributed by countries and international agencies around the world.

World Legal Information Institute - WorldLII
Single search facility for a multitude of databases including AustLII, BAILII, CanLII, HKLI, LII (Cornell), and PacLII.

Foreign Law Translations (U. Texas Institute for Transnational Law)
English translations of French, German, Israeli and Austrian legal materials (judicial decisions and legislation).

Foreign Law Internet Resources (Harvard U. Law Library)

Foreign Information by Country (U. of Colorado Library)
Links to government and information resources for all the countries of the world.

Foreign Government Resources (U. Michigan Library)

Foreign Legal Gazettes (U. Michigan School of Information)

Foreign Governments (Northwestern U. Library)
Links to websites of foreign governments.

Foreign Law and Government Links (Emory U. Law Library)

Jurist World Law (U. Pittsburgh School of Law)
Links to country information including: constitution, government and legislation, courts and judgments, human rights, and law schools.

Legal Links, Auckland District Law Society
Links to Web sites providing access to legislation and case law of various jurisdictions.

Middle East & Islamic Law Collection (Cornell U. Library)
Includes country-specific links to legal materials.

RIA Worldwide Tax Law (Thomson RIA, requires Login ID & password)

CIA World Factbook
General information about every country in the world.

Investment Climate Statements (U.S. Department of State)
Descriptions of investment environments in foreign countries for U.S. investors.

World News Connection (U.Va. only)
English translations from the foreign press.

Country Briefings (Economist.com)

Cities Guide (Economist.com)

City Survival Guide (ABA Section of International Law)

Markets and Data (Economist.com)

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (U.Va. only)
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Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation (U.Va. only)

Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law (Globalex)

Foreign & Comparative Law Research Guide (Georgetown Law Library)

Guide to Researching Foreign Law on the Internet (Harvard Law Library)

East Asian Law Guide (U. Washington Law Library)
Guides to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese legal research.

Natural Resources Weblinks (U. of Denver)
Links to databases containing primary legislation and secondary sources.