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Guide to Foreign & Int'l Legal Databases

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The LIIs: Global (WorldLII), Asia (AsianLII) ,Commonwealth (CommonLII)Australasia (AustLII) , Britian & Ireland (BAILII), Canada (CanLII) , Cyprus (CYLAW), Droit Francophone, Hong Kong (HKLII), New Zealand (NZLII) , Pacific Islands (PacLII) , SAFLII (The Southern African Legal Information Institute), USA (Cornell LII) Zambia (ZamLII) .

Afrilex
An electronic journal, in French offering the table of contents for free, focuses on African legal issues. One of its links brings to the Journal of African Law (fee-based) published by the Cambridge Journals Online; Journal Officiel de la République de Djibouti and many other legal documents from other countries from Africa. Full text articles comment on laws, and cases from African countries. The main portal to African information is Habari.

Asian Law Centre Bibliographic Database 
At Melbourne University.

Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)
AsianLII includes at launch 101 databases from 22 of the 27 Asian countries, from Mongolia in the north to Timor in the south, Japan in the east to Pakistan in the west. It includes about 150,000 full text cases, and over 15,000 items of legislation, plus law reform reports, a few law journals, and other materials. All of this content may be searched simultaneously. Some of the larger collections are from the Philippines, India, and (for legislation) Timor-Leste and Vietnam. AsianLII also includes 14 Hong Kong databases from HKLII, and 9 Papua-New Guinea databases from PacLII. See the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) | Bangladesh | Brunei | Cambodia | China | East Timor | Hong Kong, China | India | Indonesia | Japan | Korea (North) | Korea (South) | Lao PDR | Macau, China | Malaysia | Pakistan | Papua New Guinea | Philippines | Singapore | Sri Lanka | Thailand | Viet Nam.

Asian and Pacific Guides to Internet Databases 
In order to search look under publications for Asian Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library, Indonesia, Papua, Vietnam.

Center for Research Libraries 
CRL is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. CRL is governed by the major research libraries of North America. Area Studies Programs at the CRL shows projects for all regions of the world, cross-regional projects providing resources for international preservation and foreign microfilming efforts. For delivery, see document delivery fees.

Cases and materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law.
The English translations of legal decisions include cases from the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Bundesgerichtshof, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de Cassation.

CommonLII
CommonLII allows browsing and searching of 464 databases from
50 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories. CommonLII contains 44 databases from 28 additional countries. More databases are under development. There is a Catalog of law websites for all Commonwealth countries. Collections on CommonLII include those from India (very extensive), from Singapore and Malaysia, from most Caribbean countries, and from ten African countries. It is also possible to search Commonwealth-wide for legislation (from 30 countries), or case law or law reform.

Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Browse or keyword search constitutions and related documents of 192 countries. Set your search domain for one country or any combination
of your choosing.  Or select the pre-set geographic, political, and economic groupings. Introductory and Comparative Notes for each constitution examine recent amendments and add insight into pertinent historical, political, and economic influences. IP access.


Citizenship laws of European countries/ Compilation des lois sur la nationalité des pays et territoires européens  
Contains the nationality and citizenship laws of 46 European countries in vernacular. By Andy Grossman.

Doing Business Law Library at the World Bank
The largest free online collection of foreign business laws and regulations (banking and credit laws, civil procedure codes, bankruptcy and collaterals laws, commercial and company laws, labor laws, constitutions, etc). IP access. See also World Bank eLibrary. Contains over 1,200 World Bank titles, searchable by keywords, title, and author: Electronic books, Electronic indexes, Economics, International relations.

Foreign Law Guide Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores. It contains information on nearly 200 jurisdictions from major nations to crown colonies, semi-independent states and supra-national regional organizations. The work is comprehensive in content and global in scope and contains exhaustive links within the work and to many URLs on the world level. IP access.

Foreign and International Supreme Court Decisions  
The database provides information from 42 countries. It is prepared at Moss City Court in Norway.

GlobaLex
An electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world.

Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citation (GFILC)
A product of NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.

Global Legal Monitor at the Law Library of Congress
The Global Legal Monitor, an electronic publication of the Law Library of Congress, is intended for those who have an interest in legal developments from around the world. This online publication will be updated frequently, drawing upon information selected from the Global Legal Information Network, official national legal publications, and reliable press sources.

Global Newsbank
1996- Current. Articles cover politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents.

Government Gazettes Online
University of Michigan School of Information. The official gazettes are listed by country. Extensive annotations include the title, URL, price, language, frequency, time coverage, and contents. See also Official Gazettes  
with links to official gazettes from Europe, North America and Latin America, and the European Forum of Official Gazettes.

The GLIN Home Page  
The Law Library of Congress Global Legal Information Network. This site is prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress. It includes an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law available online without charge. See also Portals to the World and Guide to Law Online.  GLIN is Searchable via WorldLII. Many abstracts provide links to the full text of the legislation, court decisions and other documents.

IEL Labour Law and Industrial Relations Online
IEL Labour Law online is the searchable PDF version of the looseleaf International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations (Kluwer Law International). Please note that the library copy of the print looseleaf is no longer updated. The database is updated monthly. Organized into subject monographs covering international cases, international bodies such as the NAFTA and the ILO, and national laws, IEL Labour Law online also provides selected laws in English translation from over 20 nations.

International Law in Domestic Courts
A regularly updated repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. The cases are selected by local reporters in conjunction with our editorial board and feature expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English. IP access.

Islamic and Middle Eastern Law
at the University of London
Covers primary sources, commentaries, legal rulings, and suggested readings.

Islamic Law via International Journal of Legal Information
You can get it for free from HeinOnline, volume 31, pages 323-398 (2003) of the IJLI. Law of the Islamic World -- IALL 21st Course on International Law  Librarianship. Papers and presentations: Scenes from a Ramallah Law School; An Introduction to Law of the Islamic World; A Century of Milestones of Non-Muslim Islamic Law Scholarship; Harvard Law School Library Collections & Services Related to Law of the Islamic World.

Latinlaws
The virtual legal library that compiles the most important legislation of Latin America in one single place, allowing direct access to legislation, free of charge to the user. In this Web Site you will find the principal laws, codes and decrees of 20 Latin American countries, in addition to important specialty legislation, sample arbitration clauses, market and business guides, and other important information about each of the countries in Latin America.

Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project at Cornell University  
This project organizes and describes many Latin American official documents on the Internet, including Executive and Ministerial documents,  National Legislative Documents,  National Judicial Documents,  Sub-national Documents), LANIC -The Institute of Latin American Studies and UT-LANIC-The University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center as well as a link to the Political Database of the Americas at Georgetown University.

Legislationline
A free-of-charge legislative database maintained by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Its purpose is to assist lawmakers in OSCE participating States by providing them with sample domestic legislation and international standards on selected human dimension issues.

National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
An Inter-American Database whose center's various projects serve to identify and eliminate the structural legal obstacles to free trade through the harmonization of commercial laws and practice and the standardization of legal documentation. The Center has undertaken work in the following substantive areas: banking, environment , intellectual property ,labor, secured financing, securities, and transportation. There are selected English Translations of Mexican Laws available.  IP access.

Penal codes and Penal Procedure  
Housed at SUNY Buffalo Law School's Criminal Law Center. Various countries are covered: Argentina, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina,Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United States (federal and state), Venezuela, Yugoslavia. There are links to Model Criminal Codes including a Standard Penal Code for Latin America, International Criminal Law, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials/International Military Tribunal via CourtTV ; European Penal Law Treaties via the Council of Europe, the United Nations Crime and Justice International Network (UNCJIN), Office of International Criminal Justice, and Criminology resources

Guides
Foreign Law: Subject Law Collections on the Web by Charlotte Bynum










This page was updated April 29, 2008