Selected foreign law websites

Research guides and directories

• Law on the Internet - Countries (Monash University Law Library)
• FLARE (Foreign Law Research - a collaboration between the major libraries collecting law in the United Kingdom)
• Foreign and International Law Sources on the Internet (Charlotte Bynum of Cornell Law Library)
• Foreign Law: Legal Research Resources on the Internet (Lyonette Louis-Jacques)
• GlobaLex (Hauser Global Law School Program, NYU School of Law)
• LLRX country guides
• Research guide: Foreign & Comparative Law (Duke University)
• A Selective List of Guides to Foreign Legal Research (Columbia Law School)
• WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute)

General sites

• Inter-Parliamentary Union: Web Sites of National Parliaments
• Nations of the World and Multinational Reference  sources  for nations and regions with sections on legal guides, constitution, executive, judicial and legislative materials (Global Legal Information Network's (GLIN))
• SOSIG: Individual Jurisdictions
• Foreign Collections (NYU)
• Legal Information Institute: Global (Cornell LII)
• International Documents: Foreign Governments (Northwestern University)
• Oxford University Comparative Law Forum
• Transnational Law Database (Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL), University of Cologne)
• World Legal System (University of Ottawa)
• Guide to overseas Laws and Statutes (National Library of Australia)

Primary Materials

• FindLaw: Constitutions of the World
• WashLaw: Constitutional law
• Foreign Primary Law on the Web Excellent guide by Timothy F. Mulligan of University of Houston Law Center
• GlobalCourts links to Supreme Court Decisions in some 74 countries.

Asia Pacific

• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• Asian Law (Australia Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• World Legal Materials from Asia (Cornell LII)
• Asian Law Centre Useful Research Links (University of Melbourne) and its Asian Law Online  (bibliographic database)
• Asian Studies Research Collection (Monash University)
• A Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of China (PRC)  (LLRX)
• Internet Guide for Chinese Studies: Law (Hanno Lecher, University of Heidelberg)
• Japanese Law Links (Luke Nottage)
• HKLII (Hong Kong Legal Information Institute)
• New Zealand Portal: Law
• New Zealand Legal Sites
• PacLII (Pacific Legal Information Institute)
• WorldLII: Asia and Asian Developing Countries

Africa, The Middle East and Islamic Countries

• African Union (formerly Organization of African Unity)
• African Centre for Legal Excellence (International Law Institute Uganda)
• Lex Africa, the network of Law firms in Africa has commentary on mainly business topics in many African countries.
• Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net: Country Index (Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, University of London)
• World Legal Materials from the Middle East (Cornell LII)
• Gulf Law: Corporate Law in the Arab Middle East

The Americas

• Organization of American States
• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)
• CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute)
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell)

Europe

• BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
• Europa The European Union 0n-Line
• European Research Papers Archive: ARENA (Advanced Research on the Europeanisation on the Nation-State) Working Paper Series. Scholarly papers from a wide number of research bodies, from 1996 onwards.
• Jean Monnet Working Papers Scholarly papers on European integration from NYU School of Law and the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute.
• Legal Resources in Europe (University of Saarland)

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