Foreign Law
Acts of the U.K. Parliament

Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain

Acts of the U.K. Parliament provides links to the full text of all U.K. Parliament Public General Acts and all Local Acts as they were originally enacted. As an exception The European Communities Act 1972 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 are also available. [Internet resource: free on the Web]

China Legal Knowledge Resources

Subjects: China, Foreign Law

The largest and most comprehensive electronic database published by CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database is an all-rounded access to resources in Chinese language including CAJ (China Academic Journals covering 10 major academic disciplines from 1994 onward ); CJP (Century Journal Project, 1915-1993), China Doctoral Dissertations Full-Text Database (from 1999 onward), China Master's Thesis Full-Text Database, China Proceedings of Conferences Full-Text Database (from 2000 onward), China Core Newspapers Full-Text Database (2000 onward), China Yearbooks Full-Text Database (1912 onward) and China Reference Works Online. Single database searching or cross-database federated searching option is available.CLKD integrates the only content officially sanctioned by the People's Republic of China allowing users to follow both national and local laws enacted from 1949 to date. Includes: Laws and regulations from 1949 to date; Cases from 1979 to date; Law reviews/journals from 1994 to date from 2, 900 journals published in China (including a growing number in English); Dissertations/theses from 1999 to date, from 35 JD and 130 LLM programs; Conference proceedings from 2000 to date (90% full text in Chinese, 10% in English); and Newspaper articles from June 2000 to date.

Foreign Law Guide

Subjects: Foreign Law

Provides complete bibliographic citations to foreign legislation and where to find it in English when possible. Offers selected references to useful secondary sources. Arranged by country with an introduction to the legal system of that country as well as the availability of codes, session laws, and court reports. The subject section for each country outlines major laws in that jurisdiction on that subject.

Global-Regulation

Subjects: Foreign Law, Business

Use to retrieve legislation and regulations from 90 jurisdictions worldwide. For non-English speaking jurisdictions, machine-generated English translations are provided, along with links to the laws in their original language. Enter search terms in English. Then use the country filters on the left to narrow the results by jurisdiction. Or click on the "Advanced Mode" link to refine the results by adding additional search terms.

Hansard

Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain

Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses. Commons Hansard covers proceedings in the Commons Chamber, Westminster Hall and Standing Committees. Lords Hansard covers proceedings in the Lords Chamber and its Grand Committees. Both contain Written Ministerial Statements and Written Answers. Daily Debates are published on this website the next working day at 8 am.

Justis UK Statutes

Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain, Legal History

The Justis UK Statutes database (with JustCite add-on) contains the full text of all Acts of Parliament in England, Wales and Scotland as enacted from 1235 to the present day. UK Statutes is the only statute law database to contain Scottish Acts of Parliament and repealed legislation. All Acts appear as enacted, with links to amended and amending legislation allowing the user to trace the development of the law. A notable feature of the Justis services is the JustCite tabs, which provide users with a visual display of the path of legislation. You can also use this link for JustCite (NB: Georgetown does not subscribe to Justis content other than UK Statutes, JustCite and International Law Reports.)

LawInfoChina

Subjects: China, Foreign Law

"LawInfoChina is an English-language web site that publishes Chinese statutes, regulations, cases, government policies, legal news, treaties, law review articles, and law links. The English versions are for reference only. Use the Chinese versions for authority. ChinaLawInfo is an online legal database in Chinese, including more than 270,000 pieces of laws, regulations, legal essays, and other legal information of China, as well as the content of all legal gazettes published in China, such as the Gazette of the Supreme People's 'Court of the People's Republic of China' and others. The Chinese database contains more content than the English database."

Legislation.gov.uk

Subjects: Foreign Law, Great Britain

"Legislation.gov.uk brings together the legislative content previously held on the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) website and revised legislation from the Statute Law Database to provide a single legislation service. Legislation.gov.uk is the official site for UK Legislation as it is originally made (as enacted) and with a latest version, which shows how the legislation has changed. (Internet resource: free on the Web.)"

LexisNexis China Law Database

Subjects: China, Foreign Law

"The LexisNexis China Law Database is a collection of Chinese laws, regulations, tax information, judicial decisions, and other legal documents, collected from government sources, and TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH by LexisNexis China Online (COL) in Beijing. Government sources include the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Justice, Finance and other ministries, the State Environmental Protection Administration, and other departments and offices. You can search for all available documents classified by topic (e.g. tax, trade, environment, insurance), or create your own word search. Excluded: laws of public service, social policy, constitution, criminal law, employment and human resources and procedure laws."

Lexology Getting the Deal Through

Subjects: Foreign Law, Business

Getting the Deal Through on Lexology Pro provides detailed, practitioner-written summaries of national laws in over 160 jurisdictions that govern over 120 practice areas by using a question and answer format. Best to begin by selecting a practice area which focus primarily on commercial law and regulatory compliance. Users can easily compare jurisdictions too. For on campus and off campus use, log in credentials are required to access full text content on the site.

OECD iLibrary

Subjects: e-Book Collection, Foreign Law, International Law, International Organizations

"OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998 -- some 390 complete databases, 2.500 working papers, 5.500 books, 14.000 tables and graphs, 21.000 chapters and articles. The OECD iLibrary is a new platform that replaced SourceOECD and hosts all content equally so users can find -- and cite -- tables and databases as easily as articles or chapters. The citation tool for datasets and tables is new and unique to the OECD iLibrary."

Statutes of the Republic of Korea

Subjects: Foreign Law, Korea

Statutes of the Republic of Korea is the only database of the Statutes in English rendered in Korea, providing access [to] about 800 Statutes including the Constitution and other major Acts and enforcement decrees from among the current Statutes of the Republic of Korea.