Foreign and International Law Collection
Information & Resource Links

Internet Gateways

Academic Gateways

• Cornell Law School
  http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/WhatWeHave/Foreign/index.cfm
• University of Michigan Law School
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
• Washburn University Law School
  http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/forintmain.html

Government Gateways

• Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
  http://www.loc.gov/law/help/guide.php
• State Department
  
  Background Notes
  http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
  Country Reports on Human Rights
  http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm
• Department of Commerce
  
  "Doing Business in...."
  http://www.buyusa.gov/home/worldwide_us.html

Proprietary Gateways

• Findlaw Country Index
  http://www.findlaw.com/12international/countries/
• Hieros Gamos Country Index
  http://www.hg.org/1table.html
• Globalex International, Comparative and Foreign Law Guides
  http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
• LLRX (Law Librarians Research Exchange) Comparative and Foreign Law Guide
  http://www.llrx.com/category/1050
• World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
  http://worldlii.org/

International Law & International Organizations

Guides and General Collections

• American Society of International Law (ASIL) Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
  http://www.asil.org/resource/Home.htm
• EISIL (ASIL's Electronic Information System for International Law)
  http://www.eisil.org
• HeinOnline Foreign and International Law Resources Database
• See generally Northwestern University Library for an excellent list of International Organization Websites at:
  http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html

United Nations

• United Nations website: www.un.org
  
  UN Organization Chart
  http://www.un.org/aboutun/chart.html
  
  
  Site Index
  http://www.un.org/site_index/
  
  
  Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations
  http://www.unsystem.org/
  
  
• UN Documentation Centre (Official UN Documents System)
• UN Documents via AccessUN
• HeinOnline United Nations Law Collection

Treaty Resources

• United Nations Treaty Collection (Official UN Database)
• UN Treaty Series and Indexes via HeinOnline United Nations Law Collection.
• United States Treaties and Agreements (TIAS, etc.) via HeinOnline.

Foreign Law Collection Development

Foreign Country Web Pages

North American Concentration

• Canada
• Mexico
• Haiti

South American Concentration

• Argentina
• Brazil

European Concentration

• European Union
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Russia
• United Kingdom

MidEast/African Concentration

• Egypt
• Iran
• Israel
• South Africa

Asian/Pacific Rim Concentration

• Australia
• New Zealand