Principles of Legal Research (4th ed. 2025)

Chapter 18. The Law of Other Countries

§ 18.1  Legal Systems of the World

• James Apple & Robert Deyling, A Primer on the Civil Law System (1995) [page 390, note 3]
• JuriGlobe [page 391]

§ 18.2  Reference Sources in Foreign and Comparative Law

(a) Secondary Sources and Guides

• GlobaLex [page 391]
• Country Commercial Guides (ITA) [page 392]
• Legal Resources (Bureau of Consular Affairs) [page 392]
• The World Factbook [page 392]

(b) Summaries and Translations of Laws

• JuriGlobe [page 394]
• Introduction to Researching Foreign Law [page 394, note 10]
  • Permalink: https://perma.cc/PL6B-HT6S (Nov./Dec. 2020)
• Constitute [page 395]
• FAOLEX Database [page 395]
• NATLEX [page 395]
• WIPO Lex [page 395]
• Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law [page 395]
• Google Translate [page 395]
• Foreign Law—Subject Law Collections on the Web [page 395, note 13]
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(c) Legal Dictionaries and Citation Manuals

• The Bluebook [page 396]
• Legal Interpreting and Translating (University of Iowa) [page 396, note 15]

§ 18.3  Original Sources

(a) Links to Country Websites

• Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress) [page 397]
• World Legal Information Institute [page 397]

(b) Common Law Jurisdictions

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) [page 398]
• Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) [page 398]
• HathiTrust [page 400]
• British History Online [page 400, note 18]
• U.K. Legislation [page 402]
• Justice Laws Website (Canada) [page 402]
• U.K. Parliament [page 402]
• Parliament of Canada [page 402]
• GOV.UK [page 402]
• Government of Canada [page 402]
• Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII) [page 405]
• Legal Information Institute of India (LII of India) [page 405]

(c) Civil Law Jurisdictions

• Légifrance [page 406]
• LexUz (Uzbekistan) [page 406]
• Contact Info for Foreign Embassies & Consulates (Department of State) [page 406]