Foreign & Comparative Law - Useful Research Guides
General Guides
Subject-specific Guides
Foreign & Comparative Law - Legal Abbreviations
Foreign & Comparative Law - Search for Journal Articles and Working Papers
Indexes of Journal Articles
Working Papers
Foreign & Comparative Law - Search for Treatises and Journal Titles
Foreign & Comparative Law, Useful Websites - Compilations of Laws and Legislation
Foreign & Comparative Law - Useful Research Guides
General Guides
Comparative Law Research Guide
By Paul Norman
Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law
By Mary Rumsey
Foreign Law Guide
By Reynolds & Flores – This service is intended to provide accurate, authoritative and current information in the area of foreign law research. This work provides the legal researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, indications of currentness of the legal materials listed, and, finally, selected references to secondary sources in English.
Globalex: Guides to Foreign Law Research
Offers research guides which cover international law topics, countries and legal systems thus providing a coherent and encompassing research tool.
FLARE: Foreign Law Research Guides
FLARE is a collaboration between the major libraries collecting law in the United Kingdom: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (Chair), Bodleian Law Library, Squire Law Library, British Library, and School of Oriental and African Studies.
Multinational Collections Database
This database lists items which reprint the laws and regulations of international jurisdictions on a particular legal topic, comparative in nature. The purpose of the database is to provide additional identifying information about titles which can then be found through LINK and the Hesburgh Library catalog.
Subject-specific Guides
Foreign Law: Subject Law Collections on the Web
By Charlotte Bynum – A brief introduction to selected subject collections of national or domestic laws which are available on the web.
Comparative Civil Procedure: A Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources
By Radu D. Popa & Mirela Roznovschi – The first part of this guide lists: general works of comparative civil procedure; basic books about the civil and common law systems; and encyclopedias and treatises covering several jurisdictions. The remainder of the guide is arranged by country.
Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Select Bibliography
By Lyonette Louis-Jacques – This bibliography focuses on journal articles, book chapters, and treatises covering comparative criminal procedure generally, criminal procedure in multiple jurisdictions, and specialized research topics in comparative criminal procedure such as: arrest, pre-trial detention, interrogation, right to counsel, legal assistance for indigent defendants, discovery, plea bargaining, trial by jury, the privilege against self-incrimination, inquisitorial versus accusatorial systems, role of prosecutors, judges and defense attorneys, cross-examination, exclusionary rules, sentencing, death penalty, criminal appeals, and double jeopardy.
Immigration Law - A Comparative Approach Guide to Immigration Law of Australia, Canada and the United States
By Annmarie Zell – This guide is designed to identify key resources concerning the immigration law of Australia, Canada, and the United States. The guide provides online and print resources for each country's legislation, regulations, and case law relating to immigration, when available.
Transnational and Comparative Family Law: Harmonization and Implementation
By Marylin Johnson Raisch – This guide points researchers to significant electronic and print sources in transnational and comparative family law.
Foreign & Comparative Law - Legal Abbreviations
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
This index allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.
Guide to European Legal Abbreviations (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Allows you to look up the full titles of legal publication abbreviations from Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands, UK, and EU in eight difference languages.
Foreign & Comparative Law - Search for Journal Articles and Working Papers
Indexes of Journal Articles
LegalTrac
- LegalTrac™ provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. It also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
- Coverage: 1979-
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
- Coverage: 1985-
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- This is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide.
- Analyzes the contents of legal essays, festschrifts, melanges, and congress reports.
- Covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
International Political Science Abstracts
- Licensed for only one simultaneous user.
- Provides indexing and abstracts to articles on political science published in scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide. Covers more than 1,000 journals published from 1951 to the present.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
PAIS International and PAIS Archive
- Coverage: 1915-
- Contains citations and abstracts to print and electronic articles, books, and government publications on issues of public policy, including politics, government, economy, marine policy, and law.
Working Papers
SSRN The Social Science Research Network
Specialized research networks in the social sciences, with topics covering accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). Consists of abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format.
Foreign & Comparative Law - Search for Treatises and Journal Titles
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LINK Library Catalog
Use LINK to identify books, journals, electronic resources, and other materials available at the Kresge Law Library.
Hesburgh Libraries
- The ND catalog tab contains records for books, journals, maps, DVDs, etc. owned or licensed by the University.
- The Articles tab allows you to access “QuickSearch,” which searches a handful of librarian-selected general databases. For more complete results and more powerful functionality, search in specific article databases, which typically specialize in a subject area.
- The e-Journals tab allows you to locate electronic versions of journals by all or part of the journal's title.
- The Database tab is the fastest way to find databases such as JSTOR, Academic Search Premier, PsycInfo. The Database finder lets you search by words in the database's title or description. It includes faceted search results and “Did you mean?”
- The Catalog Plus tab allows you to search all libraries on campus and selected area libraries (Saint Mary's, Holy Cross, Bethel) with a single search. Catalog Plus features a more user-friendly interface than the classic ND Catalog and incorporates many “next generation” library catalog features. With Catalog Plus, you can store and organize materials by tagging items or saving them to your “e-shelf.” You can also save your search queries, create alerts, and receive updates when new materials are added to participating libraries’ collections.
WorldCat
- WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. Use it to verify citations and identify materials for Interlibrary Loan requests.
Foreign & Comparative Law, Useful Websites - Compilations of Laws and Legislation
GLIN - Global Legal Information Network
- A public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the full texts of their published documents to the database in their original languages. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and, in many cases in additional languages, plus subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available for most jurisdictions.
Constitutions of the countries of the world; a series of updated texts, constitutional chronologies and annotated bibliographies
- Offers access to 188 country constitutions with extensive expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. Gives accurate, original English translations, plus the ability to search for topics.
International Migration Law - International Organization for Migration
Legislationline
- An online legislative database created in 2002 to assist OSCE participating States in bringing their legislation into line with relevant international human-rights standards.
- It is the most comprehensive database on legislation related to issues such as human trafficking, elections, and citizenship.
Lexadin – World Law Guide
- Offers access to more than 50,000 links to legal sites in over 160 countries
NATLEX
- A database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department. Records in NATLEX provide abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and they are indexed by keywords and by subject classifications. Where possible, the full text of the law or a relevant electronic source is linked to the record.
- NATLEX contains over 65,000 records covering over 190 countries and over 160 territories and subdivisions, and all efforts are made to keep the database up-to-date.
World Legal Information Institute
- Provides free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.
- Provides a systematic and comprehensive approach to accessing the vast quantity of other legal information available via the Internet, through its WorldLII Catalog and Websearch facility, and through translating WorldLII searches
- WorldLII already has databases from 20 countries in six continents (at present mainly those with a common law tradition): from Australasia (120), Canada (61); Britain and Ireland (27), the Pacific Islands (25), Hong Kong (13) and other countries in Asia and Africa (6). All types of legal databases are included: case law (165), legislation (45), treaties (3), law reform (4), law journals (11), and specialist subject databases. In combination, the LII's accessible through WorldLII include 240 databases from 43 jurisdictions, with over 50 gigabytes of searchable text.
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