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Foreign Law Research for U.S. Attorneys

An introductory guide to finding the laws of foreign jurisdictions.
URL: https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/foreignlaw

Guides to Legal Research by Country

You should always start your foreign law research with a guide to researching the law of that country.

Generally, the most current and useful guides are those in NYU Law's GlobaLex series:

GlobaLex also includes a general guide to foreign law research that is a good starting point if you have not researched foreign law before:

There are also several other free country-by-country guides to legal research:

Finally, the UCLA Law Library purchases three subscription guides to foreign law research: