Foreign Law

Australia -- Belgium -- Canada -- Central and Eastern Europe -- Czech Republic -- China -- Croatia -- France -- Germany -- Iran -- Israel -- Italy -- Japan -- Korea -- Mexico -- New Zealand -- Norway -- Pacific Islands -- Poland -- Portugal -- South Africa -- Sweden -- Switzerland -- United Kingdom

For current  foreign codes and other primary law sources, consult the Reynolds and Flores Foreign Law Guide.

Australia

• Australasian Legal Information Institute - full text of federal and state statutes, cases, and more.

Belgium

• Constitution
• Recht en Internet/Law and Internet - Belgian law links from the University of Antwerp

Canada

• Canadian Legal Information Institute (CANLII) - a new gateway to Canadian cases, statutes, and regulations.
• Canadian Statutes from Justice Canada
• LexUM - portal to Canadian and Quebec law from the University of Montreal Faculty of Law. LexUM and the Supreme Court of Canada are developing a complete collection of Supreme Court decisions.
• Access to Justice Network (ACJNet)
• BIDDUL (Bulletin d'Information sur la Documentation en Droit de l'Université Laval (Canadian law librarians' newsletter)
• Université Laval Law Library
• Electronic Frontier Canada, Legal Resources Page
• Canadian Human Rights Reporter - highlights of recent human rights cases and refugee tribunal decisions.

Central and Eastern Europe

• ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies)
• The Department of Slavic and East European Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• GlasNews
• Republic of Moldavia

China

• Chinese and Asian Legal Resources by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, January 20, 2007
• Internet Chinese Legal Research Center
• ChinaLaw Web

Croatia

• Court Decisions
• Croatian Academic and Research Network CARNet

Czech Republic

• Parliament of the Czech Republic, Chamber of Deputies

Estonia

• Court Decisions (includes decisions in English)

France

• LegiFrance - french codes and statutes, and the Journal Officiel.
• Conseil Constitutionnel decisions from 1986 to date
• Service public
• Goov.org (Adminet France) - the French government "at a glance"

Germany

• German Law Archive at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Univesity of Oxford
• Law-Related Internet Project, Saarbrücken - index of statutes, court reports, teaching materials, comparative law, and Roman Law
• Der Rechtsberater - Deutscher Rechts-Index - thousands of German law links
• German Federal Government (in English)
• Deutsche Gesetze (German Laws)
• Die Woche im Bundestag
• German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgerich, BvFG) decisions (includes some English translations)
• German Federal Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH)
• Refakt Online - subscription service with current German laws in German and English, and free access to archives
• Aufbauhelfer (student outlines)
• Humboldt Forum Recht - a web-only law review from the Humboldt University of Berlin

Iran

• Iran Law from Pars Times

Israel and Palestine

• Israel Foreign Ministry Home Page - government information, news, and official statements, basic laws, and documents from the Mideast Peace Process
• Virtual Jerusalem
• Israel: The Jerusalem Post
• Israel Information Service (Foreing Ministry gopher server)
• Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites - from Birzeit University

Italy

• Instituto per la Documentazione Giuridica (idg) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
• Gazzetta Ufficiale (Official Gazette)
• Consiglio Notarile di Palermo Notary Public - Public Notaries Council of Palermo

Japan

• Japanese Law and Regulation from the Stanford University U.S.-Japan Technology Management Center
• Japan Ministry of Telecommunications
• Economic Planning Agency, Government of Japan Gopher
• Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Korea

• Korean Legal Research Resources on the Internet, by Heija B. Ryoo.

Latvia

• Saeima (Parliament) of the Republic of Latvia

Lithuania

• Parliament of Lithuania
• Teisins Informacijos Centras prie Teisingumo Ministerijos - legal information retrieval system LITLEX, database of legal acts register, home pages of law firms in Lithuania.

Mexico

• Mexican Laws from Universidad I.T.E.S.O.
• Mexican Constitution
• Mexican Civil Code (in Spanish)
• Diario Oficial de la Federacion (fee-based service)
• Mexican Supreme Court
• Mexican Supreme Court = Servidor Web de la Suprema Corta de Justicia de Mexico (in Spanish)
• InfoSel Legal - fee-based online service

New Zealand

• New Zealand Statutes. (Under Construction.) The statutes are as originally passed, and do not reflect subsequent amendments. Hansards, Acts, Bills, and Regulations, provided by GP Print, will be available soon, free to the public.

Norway

• Norwegian Laws in English
• Aktuelle lover
• Ajourførte lover
• ODIN, Official Documentation and Information from Norway
• Norske Lower - Norwegian Law Server
• Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law

Pacific Islands

• Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII) - An initiative of the University of the South Pacific School of Law to promote access to Pacific laws.

Poland

• Polish Government WWW Server

Portugal

• Portuguese legal resources from the Law Deartment of ESTIG/Beja Polytechnic

Russia

• Russian Law Materials (in English) from the "St. Petersburg Web"
• Russian Laws and Statutes in English and Russion
• Russian Government Law & Politics from Russophilia!
• Russian Laws from Uni Bayreuth (Based on R&R)
• Russian laws and statutes from Garant (fee-based service)
• Moscow Libertarium (most materials are in Russian)

Slovak Republic

• Government
• Constitutional Court
• Slovakian Document Store

Republic of Slovenia

• Slovenian Constitutional Court

South Africa

• Constitution of the Republic of South Africa
• Decisions of the South African Constitutional Court
• African National Congress

Spain

• LeyJur
• Spanish Constitutional Law in Catalan
• Boletin Oficial del Estado (official gazette)

Sweden

• Swedish Law from Project Runeberg
• JURIDIK

Switzerland

• The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation - information about swiss government, parliamentary actions, and constitutional law.

The Ukraine

• Ukrainian Laws

United Kingdom

• BAILII - The British and Irish Legal Information Institute - free public web site with British and Irish statutes and cases
• The Information Society: Agenda for Action in the UK - report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology
• Acts of Parliament full text, from 1996 chapter 1-
• Statutory Instruments full text, from 1997 no.1-
• House of Commons Hansard full text & searchable from October 1996-
• House of Lords Hansard full text & searchable from10 June 1996-
• House of Commons & House of Lords Bills full text, 1997/98 session-
• House of Commons Select Committee Reports full text, 1997/98 session-
• House of Lords Select Committe Reports full text, 1997/98-
• House of Lords judgments full text from 14 Nov 1996-
• Law Commission Reports & Consultation Papers full text: Reports, No.242- ; Consultation Papers, No. 141-
• Swarbrick & Co. database of UK law (including cases)
• The Times has the Times Law Reports from January 1996 to date. The Law Reports are in the Britain Section, and are searchable in the Internet Archive section.
• 10 Downing Street - the Prime Minister's web site
• HMSO
• World Wide Legal Information Association UK Law
• Magna Carta from the WWLIA
• CCTA Government Information Service
• H M Treasury
• Free UK Tax Help from Purple Training