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Multinational Reference

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
  • Constitutions / Constituciones (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas) 
  • Constitutions of the World (FindLaw)
  • Foreign and International Research: Constitutions (New York University Law Library)
  • International Constitutional Law (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht)
  • Constitutions, Comparative Laws, and Country Reports (University of Chicago Law Library)

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Executive

  • Diplomatic List (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Leaders: Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Executive Institutions / Instituciones Ejecutivas (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)
  • International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes

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Judicial

  • Judicial Institutions / Instituciones Judiciales (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)

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Legislative

  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress)
  • Comparative Civil Procedure: A Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources (New York University Law Library)
  • Electoral Laws (Georgetown University Political Database of the Americas)
  • Customary IHL (International Committee of the Red Cross)
  • Legislative Institutions / Instituciones Legislativas (Georgetown University PoliticalDatabase of the Americas)
  • Mining Laws of Asian Countries (Metal Mining Agency of Japan via Internet Archive) archived from 2004
  • NATLEX (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights
  • Web Sites of National Parliaments

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Legal Guides

  • Annual Review of Population Law (Harvard University Law Library)
  • Arab Laws Online for citations and descriptions of laws; full-text requires subscription
  • AsianLII: Asian Legal Information Institute
  • AustLII: Australian Legal Information Institute
  • BAILII: British and Irish Legal Information Institute
  • Canadian Legal Information Institute
  • Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
  • CommonLII: Commonwealth Legal Information Institute
  • Country-by-Country Resources (East European Constitutional Review)
  • CYLAW: The Cyprus Source of Legal Information
  • e-RG: Electronic Resource Guide (American Society of International Law) 
  • ECOLEX: Environmental Law Gateway (UNEP/ICUN)
  • Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) (American Society of International Law) 
  • EUR-Lex
  • FAOLEX (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)
  • Finding Foreign Law Online (Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago Law Library)
  • FindLaw - Countries
  • Foreign and International Law resources (University of Texas School of Law, Tarleton Law Library)
  • Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Research Guides (Harvard University Law Library)
  • Foreign and International Law Research Guides and Bibliographies (University of Houston Law Library)
  • Foreign Collections by Jurisdiction (New York University Law Library)
  • Foreign Databases - Collections (New York University Law Library)
  • ForIntLaw (Washburn University Law Library)
  • GlobaLex (New York University School of Law Hauser Global Law School Program)
  • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases (New York University Law Library)
  • Islamic Family Law: Legal Profiles (Emory University School of Law / Ford Foundation)
  • International Digest of Health Legislation (World Health Organisation)
  • Internet Law Library (LawGuru)
  • Judicial Assistance (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • JURIST: Current Awareness (University of Pittsburgh Law School)
  • LawRunner: Global Index (Internet Legal Research Guide)
  • Law School Addresses (Hieros Gamos)
  • Law Schools of the World (FindLaw)
  • PacLII: Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
  • SAFLII: Southern African Legal Information Institute
  • World Directory of National Parliamentary Libraries (German Bundestag / International Federation of Library Associations)
  • World Law Index (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Background Notes (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Consular Information Sheets: Country-Specific Information (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Consular Information Sheets: Current Travel Alerts (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Countries and Regions (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Governments on the WWW (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights by Country (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom, Annual Report to Congress (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • List of National Libraries (Wikipedia)
  • RefWorld (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Library)
  • U.S. Embassies and Consulates (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • UNESCO Library Portal
  • World Factbook (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Yahoo Regional
  • Africa News Online
  • Africa South of the Sahara (Stanford University)
  • BBC World Service
  • Bureau of African Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • EurasiaNet.org (Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute)
  • A Guide to Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations (U.S. Dept. of State. Office of the Historian)
  • Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
  • Index on Africa (Index on Africa)
  • International Labor Affairs: Countries (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
  • LANIC: Latin American Studies (Latin American Network Information Center)
  • Middle East Area Studies (Columbia University)
  • National Documentation Packages, Issue Papers and Country Fact Sheets (Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada)
  • National Libraries of Europe (European Library)
  • REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
  • UCB Libraries GovPubs: Foreign Information by Country (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • World Bank: Countries and Regions
  • World Health Organization: Countries
  • World Heritage List (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
  • World Hunger: Countries (World Food Programme)

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