FAOLEX
(database indexing and abstracting, with citations to official
gazettes and links to full texts in .pdf or .doc formats,
national legislation on agriculture, environment,
fisheries, land, water, animals, food, forests, plants, wildlife, and
biodiversity; see also
FISHLEX,
the database of summaries of national legislation and of bilateral and
multilateral agreements governing foreign fishing)
NATLEX
(International Labor Organization; searchable abstracts and
bibliography of labor, employment, social security, and related human
rights laws; includes English, French and Spanish interfaces)
Annual
Review of Population Law (Harvard database; summaries and
excerpts of legislation, court decisions, etc. re population policies,
reproductive health, women's rights, and related topics; specifically
child labor, marriage and divorce, maternity leave benefits, rape,
sex discrimination, domestic violence, abortion, adoption,
assisted reproduction, surrogate motherhood, female genital
mutilation, etc.; was at
http://www.law.harvard.edu/Programs/annual_review/index.html until
2001; note that the electronic database is only updated through 2000
and the
hardcopy set has ceased publication)
Citizenship Laws
of the World (March 2001 233-page PDF file containing synopses
of citizenship laws for countries worldwide with addresses, phone and
fax numbers, and websites for embassies and consular offices;
published by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Investigation
Services; note that full texts of selected citizenship laws are
available via the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' "Country of Origin and
Legal Information page)
Databases: Sources of Full Texts of Foreign Law
LEXIS-NEXIS (see their
Directory
of Online Services; legal materials for Argentina, Australia,
Canada, China, EU, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Malaysia,
Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Philippines, Scotland,
Singapore, South Africa, UK; EELEG (Eastern European Legal Texts in
English translation))
AustLII (Australasian
Legal Information Institute; including Project DIAL
for the full texts of Asian, etc. laws and the World Law Index to
foreign legislation, courts, and case-law, etc.)
Legislation
(links to full texts via LEXADIN: The World Law Guide)
Minority-Related
National Legislation (MINELRES links to full texts or
excerpts of laws and codes in English translation and in the local
language for Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and
the Ukraine; topics covered include Citizenship, Education,
Media/Telecommunications, Elections/Political Parties, Labor,
Penal/Criminal Law, Cultural Autonomy, Language, Minorities/Ethnic
Groups, Constitution, Aliens, etc.)
Global Banking Law Database
(a joint project of the World Bank Group and the International
Monetary Fund; full texts of laws in English translation on 35 topics
(corporate governance, money laundering, independence, supervision,
disclosure, etc.) for the following countries:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech
Republic, European Union, France, Germany, Indonesia, Kenya, Kuwait,
Latvia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania,
Russia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sri Lanka,
Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United States)
Central
Bank Laws (English translations via the Center for the Study of
Central Banks, New York University)
Drug
Legislation: Country Index (United Nations Office for Drug
Control and Crime Prevention (UNDCP) page of links to full texts of
laws and regulations on control of narcotic drugs for over 100
countries in English, French, and/or Spanish, mostly from 1990 to
date; see general Legislation page)
BINAS Online
(national biotechnology laws, regulations, rules, guidelines via
UNIDO; full texts of laws re genetically modified organisms
(GMOs), recombinant DNA, gene technology, biodiversity, etc.)
Election Laws
(links page of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES))
LexInfoSys:
Reform of Law in Transition States (full texts of the laws of
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan; mostly available
in Russian and / or in the language of the country, sometimes also in
English or German translation; focus on private and economic law)
Databases: Sources of Full Texts of International Law
LEXIS (includes European Union regulations, treaties, directives,
and decisions via CELEX, plus International Legal Materials, Basic
Documents of International Economic Law, IBFD International Tax
materials, European Court of Human Rights decisions, etc.)
WESTLAW (includes International Legal Materials,
international environmental law documents, etc.)
Germany: Federal Law (German
Ministry of Justice's links to the Criminal Law (German Penal
Code as of 15 August 1998) and the German Code of Criminal Procedure
(as of 7 April 1987))
Israel: The Law
(Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs; includes links to English
translations of Israeli court cases and statutes)
Japan: Law and Regulation (J Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information
Resources)
Korea: Economic
Laws in English (foreign investment, corporate, trade, financial,
intellectual property, tax, labor, arbitration laws; Korean
Legislation Research Institute)
Directories
(organizations, lawyers, etc.; see also Encyclopedia of
Associations (EOA on WESTLAW))
Listservs (EURO-LEX
(European Legal Information List),
CLNET (Chinese Law Net), LAT-LAW (Latin American Law), SLA-LAW (Special
Libraries Association - Legal Division), LAW-LIB
(Law Libraries List - mostly U.S., some Canada, Australia, UK law librarians),
CALL-L
(Canadian Association of Law Libraries list), LIS-LAW (Law
Libraries in the UK), ANZ-LAW-LIBRARIANS-ONE (Australia and New
Zealand) and other appropriate lists
