Foreign Law
by Paul Axel-Lute
last revised September 22nd, 2009
last revised September 22nd, 2009
Contents
General & Miscellaneous Sites
- Comparative/Foreign Law (LLRX.com)
- Constitution Finder (Univ.of Richmond)
- Criminal Law Resources on the Internet (Buffalo Criminal Law Center) Links to criminal codes of various countries
- Droit Francophone: major portal to French-language legal materials worldwide.
- Foreign & International Law (Washburn Univ.)
- Foreign Law Collections in U.S. Libraries (Univ.of Pittsburgh)
- Foreign Law Guide (Rutgers Newark Law School access only): Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World / by Thomas H. Reynolds & Arturo A . Flores.
- Foreign Law Research (FLARE), a collaborative project in the U.K. including research guides to some foreign jurisdictions.
- Foreign Law Translations (Institute for Transnational Law, Univ. of Texas at Austin) -- "French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law "
- GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress). A searchable database of abstracts of statutes, cases, and legal literature from the countries of the Americas and another dozen countries, MERCOSUR, OAS, UN, Justice Studies Center of the Americas, and Studies in Latin American Constitutional Histories. Many of the abstracts link to full texts of the documents.
- GlobaLex (Hauser Global Law School Program, New York Univ.) Includes research guides on foreign and comparative law, and on law of many particular countries.
- Government Gazettes Online (Univ. of Michigan School of Information)
- Guide to Law Online: Nations (Law Library of Congress)
- Institute of Global Law (University College London). Has English translations of selected statutes and cases from Austria, France, Germany, Israel, and Italy.
- Internet Law Library: Laws of Other Nations
- Rule of Law Initiative, Publications & Assessments (American Bar Association)
- World Legal Information Institute: "free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law"
Regional Sites
- Dret Hispanoamericà Latin-American law sources (by Albert Ruda Gonzalez)
- Latin American Network Info.Ctr, Law & Justice page (Univ. of Texas)
- Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
- Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown Univ.) Includes constitutions by country and comparative compilations of constitutional provisions on the three branches of government; and extensive bibliographies.
Sites for Selected Countries
Australia
- Australasian Legal Information Institute
- ScalePlus (Attorney General's Department) Contains Commonwealth and territory statutes and regulations.
Canada
- Canadian Legal Information Institute
- Duhaime Law (Lloyd Duhaime). A legal dictionary and a collection of articles on various Canadian legal topics.
China
- LawInfoChina: public portion includes description of Chinese legal system and texts of some basic laws.
France
- Legifrance.gouv.fr French legislation and caselaw. Includes English translations of the codes.
Germany
- BGH Edition (Carl Heymanns Verlag): a commercial caselaw database; free to search but fee-based full-text retrieval.
- Das Bundesverfassungsgericht German Constitutional Court. Includes decisions from 1998 forward.
- Deutsches Fallrecht (DFR) Selected German caselaw from 1951 forward.
- German Criminal Code in English.
- German Law Archive Selected statutes, caselaw, commentary, and bibliographies, in English.
- Gesetze im Intenet German statutes.
Mexico
- The Best Mexican Web Sites (Prof Jorge A. Vargas) (scroll to section 1.2 for links)
- Unidad de Documentación de Legislación y Jurisprudencia (at Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas)
Spain
- Pagina Juridica. (by Albert Ruda Gonzalez) Includes Spanish and Catalan law sources.
United Kingdom
- British & Irish Legal Information Institute
- English Reports (1220-1873) (at Commonwealth Legal Information Institute)
- Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales
- UK Statute Law Database