1. Researching Foreign Law A presentation for Professor Donovan’s Comparative Law Class January 12, 2011

2. Main Tasks Learning about the country’s legal system. Finding scholarly discussions of your topic. Finding cites to & texts of applicable laws.

3. Background on the Country

4. Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes & Legislation Covers 150+ nations. Suggests further reading. Also useful for finding primary law. Has assessments and opinions.

5. At Zief Library: KKF 68.I58 1998 Law Stacks Legal Systems of the World

6. GlobaLex Research Guides Plus

7. Books devoted to a single country Ignacio for USF books “Doncore” search examples “Doncore” search examples — — law “country name” — “legal research” “country name”

8. International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (in progress … never to be completed?) Overviews of legal systems (v. 1) — some quite dated Topical chapters (v. 2-) — some quite current

9.  Research Guides  GlobaLex  Google search, e.g., french legal “research guide”  Portals to the World (Library of Congress)  Country Domain Name Searches, e.g.,  environment site:gc.ca  “kyoto protocol” site:ec.gc.ca Web search for country information (http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/)http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/ () GlobaLexGuide to Law Online (L.C.)Google Research Guides GlobaLex Google search, e.g., french legal “research guide” Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress) Country Domain Name Searches, e.g., environment site:gc.ca “kyoto protocol” site:ec.gc.ca

10. Discussions of Specific Topics (ideally citing to primary law)

11. Legal Systems of the World

12. Books with topical discussions Browse Zief stacks — lower level “K” Ignacio “Encore” searches, e.g., comparative labor law Google Book Search Some examples: Labour law, work, and family: critical and comparative perspectives (K 1820.L33 2005 Law Stacks) Defining the field of comparative constitutional law (K 3165.D44 2002 Law Stacks) Privacy, property and personality: civil law perspectives on commercial appropriation (K 3264.C65 F56 1989 Law Stacks) Hot property: the stealing of ideas in an age of globalization (K 1401.C48575 2005 Law Stacks)

13. Articles with topical discussions Finding Legal & Social Science Articles Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Legal Resource Index and Index to Legal Periodicals Gleeson Library article-finding tools (“indexes”)

14. Index? WTF?

15. Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (web version)

16. Index to Legal Periodicals & Legal Resource Index Legal Resource Index and Index to Legal Periodicals Legal Resource Index - limiting by country Lexis: and jurisdiction(“country name”) Westlaw: and summary( “country name”)

17. Finding social science articles via Gleeson Library

18. Web Search for Topical Discussions (scholar.google.com)scholar.google.com Article search Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) and competitors Book Search Google Book Search (books.google.com) and competitors

19. Primary Law: Citations & Text

20. Books reproducing primary law Translations of single codes e.g., Russian Civil Legislation: the Civil Code (parts one and two) and Other Surviving Civil Legislation of the Russian Federation Topical collections of laws e.g., World Arbitration Reporter

21. Web Sites & “Wexis” for Primary Law A sample — addresses in Zief research guide Foreign and International Law Resources… - Cornell Law Library Legal Information Institutes — WorldLII, etc. Foreign Law Research Guide - Yale Law Library Westlaw / Lexis (rarely)

22. Foreign Law: Current Sources… Citations to Law

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