Other Legal Systems
This leads to sites for laws or courts in other countries or IGOs. Remember not all countries have laws and courts like the United States. Do not forget the law of treaties that are linked to in the Hot Topics or U. S. Treaties or Non-U.S. Treaties.
Guide to Law Online by the Law Library of Congress links to sources of International, Multination and United States legal sources, law journals and Law of Nations.
Law of Foreign Jursidiction by Emory Law School is arranged by country, topic or translation.
Foreign Law Alphabetical list of countries from the University of Chicago Law School.
Collected Foreign Law and Government Sites from Willimette College of Law list of links to links.
Global Legal Information Network by the Library of Congress. Search this database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. Contains official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language.
Constitutions of the Americas Constitutions of the 38 countries North, Central and South America and Caribbean countries. Each one is original language or origin. The rest of the Political Database of the Americas contains other legal documents.
Eur-Lex: European Union Law provides the Official Journal of the European Communities, as well as EU treaties, legislation in force, and recent judgments by the Court of Justice.
International Constitutional Law (ICL) Arranged alphabetically by country in three lists. The first are those countries with laws and courts. The second list only contains country history, no constitutions. The final list of countries (not underlined) are without known data, chances it is just not electronically available.
International Court of Justice (ICJ) The judicial branch of the United Nations site contains major decisions, ongoing decisions and other key international legal documents.
Courts, Tribunals, and Other Adjudicatory Bodies by American Society of International Law provides links to the world and various country criminal courts.
Legal Information Institute: Law by Sources from Around the Globe Arranged by continent, then by country. Lists also other organizations dealing with international law.
National Constitutions Arranged alphabetically by country. Gives the full-text of these country's constitution, sometimes in language of origin. 1 in 3 links are to International Constitutional Law (ICL) site, listed above.
World Government Resource by HG.com arranged alphabetically by country and provides links to the documents via various websites.
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