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Foreign Law Guide

Information on the world's legal systems, including constitutions, codes, legislation and judicial decisions of many foreign jurisdictions; along with links to helpful secondary sources.

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Our Foreign Law Guide contains resources for finding the law and other information for specific countries. It also has resources to help with comparing the law of different countries. For help finding the law governing relations between nations, such as treaties and international judicial decisions, please visit our International Law guide.

Foreign Law Quick Links

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Search by title or abbreviation.

Westlaw China
Provides laws, regulations, cases and articles in Chinese and English.

World Legal Information Institute - WorldLII
Single search facility for LII databases providing access to the law of countries around the world.

Foreign Law Guide
Guide to finding sources of codes and legislation from countries around the world, including the United States.

GlobaLex
Research guides on subjects in international or comparative law, or on researching the law of particular countries.
CIA World Factbook
General information about every country in the world

Last Updated: Sep 17, 2020 12:32 PM
URL: https://libguides.law.virginia.edu/foreign
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Subjects: Foreign and International

Foreign Law Guide

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