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

In BLS Library's SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - BRILL.
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.

Tab: "Foreign Law" yields research guides for 100+ jurisdictions.
Excerpt from description: "The most up-to-date version of each article is listed in alphabetical order by the name of the jurisdiction."

Provides 220 guides.

Path: Bloomberg Law > tab: Secondary Sources > Browse International Resources includes material from Lexology Panoramic's subject overviews of nearly 30 countries' laws. These subject overviews focus on business, finance, health care insurance/litigation, insurance, intellectual property and trade topics. (Countries covered vary by topic.) 
Box: Litigation & Dispute Resolution (Panoramic) outlines the court system and time limits for bringing selected civil claims in the countries covered by Lexology Panoramic.

Tip: Register w/ your BLS email account. Bloomberg Law will send you an email to activate your new account.

Path: Click: View All Jurisdictions > choose a jurisdiction > view available content by practice area. Provides data on 100+ jurisdictions. Includes: Country Q&A Comparison Tool ("Compare answers to key questions about doing a variety of transactions across multiple jurisdictions.") Includes: Global ESG and Sustainability Resources; Global In-house Resources; and Global AI Toolkit.
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.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. ID and password required. Registration required for first-time use (must be within BLS proxy). 1 digital copy available.

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.

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

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. ID and password required. Registration required for first-time use (must be within BLS proxy). 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. ID and password required. Registration required for first-time use (must be within BLS proxy). Multiple digital copies available.

Includes: Canadian Legislation and Parliamentary Materials + Canadian Cases.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. ID and password required. Registration required for first-time use (must be within BLS proxy). Multiple digital copies available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. ID and password required. Registration required for first-time use (must be within BLS proxy). Multiple digital copies available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBSCO. Remote access requires BLS proxy. 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBC. ID and password required. Registration required for first-time use (must be within BLS proxy). 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBSCO. Remote access requires BLS proxy. 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBSCO. Remote access requires BLS proxy. 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBSCO. Remote access requires BLS proxy. 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBSCO. Remote access requires BLS proxy. 1 digital copy available.

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - OXFORD. Remote access requires BLS proxy.

Ordered by BLS Library.

See also: Francisco A. Avalos, UPDATE: Researching Mexican Law and Mexican Legal System (Nov./Dec. 2019), https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mexico1.html

In SARA catalog record, click line: "Online resources: Beyond expropriation without compensation" (open access)

In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - EBSCO. Remote access requires BLS proxy. 1 digital copy available.