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Constitutions
Legal Compilations by Country
- Foreign and
International Laws (Washburn Univ)
- Foreign laws, area studies web sites, and news sources
- Arranged by region and country
- Foreign Laws
(FINDLAW)
- Extensive list of foreign laws arranged by country
- Includes unique "unofficial" sources and some annotations
- Additional search engine
- Foreign Laws and
Constitutions (House of Rep/LawMoose)
- Texts of foreign constitutions, selected other foreign laws, and
treaties
- Global Legal
Information Network
- Search English summaries of
laws from around the world since January 1976
- A minimum search requires use of the
Thesaurus and a country designation (e.g.
Argentina and Criminal law)
- Search may be refined by citing the legal instrument or date
- Government
Gazettes Online (UMich)
- Identifies government legal gazettes available on the web
- Annotations include URL, frequency, languages, dates, format,
contents, and price
- Project conducted by Caroline Crouse and Anthony Davis in Spring 2003
as an extension of their Alternative Spring Break at the United
Nations
- Guide to Foreign and
International Legal Databases (NYU)
- Arranged by country and by subject (civil codes, constitutions,
copyright, environment, human rights, and treaties)
- Extensive explanations in context and foreign language
material
- Index to
Foreign Legal Periodicals (UMich Only)
- Indexes 450 legal periodicals published outside the U.S., Canada, and
Great Britain since 1985
- Approach by author, title, subject, and
keyword
- Western European languages, including English
- Nations of the World
(Law Library of Congress)
- Separate web page for each country of the world links to
constitutions and laws available on the web
- Links to executive, legislative and judicial branch web sites
- General sources include area studies, human rights reports, refugee
reports, travel advisories
- World
Law Resource List (World Legal Information Institute)
- Extensive list of legal Internet sites for over 50 countries outside
the United States and South America
- Multiple listings for many countries
Subject Compilations
- Conditions
of Work and Employment Laws (ILO)
- Detailed database of maternity, minimum wage, and work time laws of
countries around the world
- Laws of individual countries or countries within a region can be
easily compared
- NATLEX,
a related database, has the text of laws and decrees but a little harder
to read
- Drug
Laws (UN Office of Drugs and Crime)
- Narcotics laws arranged by name of country
- EcoLex: A
Gateway to Environmental Law
- Index international treaties and environmental laws or regulations in
most countries
- Often provides the full text
- Search by subject, country, date, or free text
- Initial version not always easy to use
- European Environmental Law
- Full text of numerous environmental treaties, international laws, and
case laws about environmental topics in Western Europe
- International
Boundary News Database
- Single-paragraph news articles on international boundaries since 1991
- Searchable by subject
- Includes both boundary demarcations and boundary disputes
- International Victomology Web
Site
- National laws on victims of crime, including a large number of U.S.
sources
- Data base of international research projects in progress and
completed
- NATLEX
- Labor laws for 180 countries
- Searchable by a combination of subject, country and year
- Related database: Conditions
of Work
Directories
- International Law Office
- Search for commercial law firms around the world by country, subject specialty, and/or language spoken
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