Key sites
Legal Information Institutes
Free access to the law by country or region:
Other country sites
Asian Law
Online (University of Melbourne)
The Asian Law Centre bibliographic database is offered to the public
as a service to assist students and scholars of Asian legal systems.
It is a collection of English language materials on Asian laws available
throughout the world and includes books, chapters in books, journal articles
and theses. Search or browse by country or subject.
CIA World Factbook
Facts and statistics for every country in the world.
Constitution Finder
This site provides access to constitutional documents (as well as charters,
proposed amendments, and related documents), organised alphabetically
by country.
Economist Country Briefings
News, country profiles, forecasts, and statistics on countries listed
alphabetically. Also available for Monash users only is the EIU
Country Reports & Profiles database
Foreign Law (by
Geographic Region) (WashLaw WEB)
WashLaw WEB, maintained by the Washburn University School of Law, provides
links to primary foreign and international legal resources, research
aids, and sites, and is arranged alphabetically, including by country.
Foreign
National Governments (International Documents Task Force)
An A-Z country listing of government and official sites worldwide, provided
by the GODORT International Documents Task Force and Northwestern University
Library.
GlobaLex (Hauser
Global Law School Program, NYU School of Law)
Provides excellent guides on international and foreign law research.
Government Gazettes
Online
This website attempts to list all online government gazettes worldwide
and their characteristics to aid researchers. A description of the contents
and coverage are included for each gazette. Anyone wishing to do further
research on foreign law will find useful resources in the bibliography.
Global Courts
- Links to Supreme Court Decisions
This portal give you access to Supreme Court decisions in 95 countries,
or a way of finding them. In most countries you will find direct access
to decisions in their native language free of charge. In others you need
an account or a password, and in other countries you have to inquire
by sending an e-mail. The list of countries include the Supreme Courts
of the Australian Territories, the Canadian Provincial Court of Appeals,
the State Supreme Courts in the United States and the US Court of Appeals.
In addition, the Court of Justice of the European Communities and the
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.
Law Library of Congress
- Guide to Law Online - Nations of the World
A comprehensive guide to the law in all countries.
LLRX
Comparative & Foreign Law Guides
Each of these excellent articles describes how to carry out legal research
in a particular country.
Portals to
the World
Portals to the World contain selective links providing authoritative,
in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world.
They are arranged by country or area with the links for each sorted into
a wide range of broad categories. The links were selected by Area Specialists
and other Library staff using Library of Congress selection criteria.
Each country includes a "Government and Law" page.
World directory
of law schools
Compiled by James P. White, Professor of Law, Indiana University School
of Law, Indianapolis, this international directory of law schools provides
useful contact details and course information for law schools arranged
by country.
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