Starting Points for Foreign Law Research: Guides: FL Research & Legal Systems

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Provides information about laws in approx. 190 jurisdictions. Each entry describes the legal system and key sources of laws and regulations. Includes cites to English-language translations of primary legal materials and cites to some secondary sources.
BLS students, faculty and administrators: access Foreign Law Guide while connected to Brooklyn Law School’s wireless network, while using computers in BLS Library’s computer labs, or while off campus using a web browser that communicates with the BLS proxy server.

Link: Foreign Law Research yields guides for 100+ jurisdictions.
Tip: If available, click: UPDATE to view newest version of a guide.

Provides 195 guides.

Path: Bloomberg Law > tab: Secondary Sources > Browse International Resources includes material from Getting the Deal Through (GTDT). GTDT provides current subject overviews of nearly 30 countries' laws. These subject overviews focus on business, intellectual property and trade topics. (Countries covered vary by topic.) 
Box: Litigation & Dispute Resolution: link: Country Surveys - Dispute Resolution (GTDT) outlines the court system and time limits for bringing selected civil claims in the countries covered by GTDT.

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Path: Click: View All Jurisdictions > choose a jurisdiction > view available content by practice area. Provides data on 100+ jurisdictions. * = In-depth coverage. Includes: Country Q&A Comparison Tool. Offers: Doing Business In ... guides for selected jurisdictions.
Tip: Also conduct terms and connectors searches such as: "Islamic finance"

Provides title, URL, languages, “free or fee” info., & whether the government gazette is searchable.

Provides 70,000+ "[l]inks to [l]egal sites in over 180 countries."

Provides “1,834 databases from 123 jurisdictions via 14 [Free] Legal Information Institutes.” Click link: All Countries.

Provides overviews (in graphic form) of the world's legal systems and identifies official legal languages. Includes a "General Bibliography" about the world's legal systems.

02/12/2024: BLS Library is in the process of acquiring: Introduction to Comparative Law (2d ed. 2023).

Includes chapter: Islamic Conceptions of the Rule of Law by Luc Heuschling.

Includes: Canadian Legislation and Parliamentary Materials + Canadian Cases.