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FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: FOREIGN LAW BY COUNTRY OR REGION

Foreign and International:
Finding Aids | Foreign Law | Human Rights | Organizations | Treaty Sites | United Nations | Combined List

Collections of Links

Constitution Finder - constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents.
Foreign Governments - Northwestern University Library; links to the official websites of national governments.
Foreign Law - University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library.
Foreign Law Translations - Containing nearly 1,000 translated judicial decisions and statutes, this website is a resource for French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law

Foreign Primary Law on the Web - O'Quinn Law Library, University of Houston Law Center.
Government websites by Country - Yahoo!
Governments on the WWW - links to governmental institutions on the Web, including parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions, and political parties.
Hieros Gamos - includes law and government resources for 230 countries.
International Law Digest (LexisNexis) - The Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest contains a summary of statutory law for 80 countries including descriptions of the government and legal systems. Updated annually to include changes in court rules and the most current enactments of the legislature. (NOTE: No longer available in print, check the NUCat catalog or lexisnexis.com/lawschool)

LC Country Profiles
- Library of Congress' profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
Nations of the World - U.S. Law Library of Congress.
SOSIG Law Gateway - "The SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) Law Gateway provides guidance and access to global legal information resources on the Internet. The service aims to identify and evaluate legal resource sites offering primary and secondary materials and other items of legal interest. Descriptive records and links are created for legal service sites and specific documents."
Web Resources for Foreign Law and Governments - Emory Law Library, Electronic Reference Desk.
World Legal Information Institute - "Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law."

The Americas

American Law Sources On-Line (ALSO) - links to law and commentary for United States, Canada, Mexico, and their subdivisions.
(Canada) Department of Justice: Consolidated Statutes and Regulations
(Canada) Parliamentary Internet Parlementaire
(Canada) Supreme Court collection
Canadian Legal Information Institute
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
(Mexico) Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

Europe and European Union

ABC of European Community Law
British and Irish Legal Information Institute - "Access to Freely Available British and Irish Public Legal Information."

Council of the European Union
(EC) Official Journal (OJ) of the European Communities.
EUR-Lex: portal to European Union Law
Europa, the European Union server
European Commissioner for Human Rights
European Communities' Court of Justice and Court of First Instance
European Court of Human Rights
European Judicial Network (EJN) in Civil and Commercial Matters
European Union in the United States
Irish Government
Irish Law Site - University of College Cork.
(UK) Court Service Website
(UK) Legislation

Others

African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Constitutional Court of South Africa
Organization of African Unity (OAU)
Sierra Leone
Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
China Law Digest **Be sure to register first. Registration is free.
Phillipine e-Lib


Last Updated: May 2, 2007
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