Featured English Law and Related Materials
- Search English law and related materials ("English law")The Law Library provides access to hundreds of English law titles. Search cataloged primary and secondary sources in print or electronic format here.
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Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Constitutions of the Countries of the World by
Provides full-text, integrated versions of 192 country constitutions. Complementing the official documents are Introductory and Comparative Notes that examine amendments and highlight pertinent historical, political and economic factors.
Call Number: K3157.A2 B52ISBN: 0379004674Publication Date: Updated
Foreign Law Databases
- CIA World Factbook A good resource for demographic information including culture, religion and politics.
- HeinOnline Foreign and International Law Resources Database A great resource to find international law or foreign law information including older materials. Yearbooks can be of great use on researching topics. I recommend using the title search feature under Advance Searching. You can type one or two key words and Hein will search for those words in the title.
- Multinational Collections Database, Law Library of Congress Law Library of Congress catalog to search primary and secondary legal sources for a particular country. Although a catalog only, it helps determine a title in which substantive law can be found for that country.
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- World Legal Information Institute 1240 databases from 123 jurisdictions.
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A Culture of Rights: Law, Literature, and Canada by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9781442625808Publication Date: 2018-09-28
Victims, Perpetrators, and the Role of Law in Maoist China by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9783110533651Publication Date: 2018-06-25
Power Versus Law in Modern China by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9780813173948Publication Date: 2017-10-12
Jewish and Israeli Law - An Introduction by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9783899497946Publication Date: 2017-05-08
Judicial Power and National Politics : Courts and Gender in the Religious-Secular Conflict in Israel by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9781438462080Publication Date: 2017
The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9783110415964Publication Date: 2016-04-11
Nation and Family: Personal Law, Cultural Pluralism, and Gendered Citizenship in India by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9780804790901Publication Date: 2014-04-01
Human Rights Under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt, and India by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9781107417489Publication Date: 2013- Medicine, Law, and the State in Imperial Russia by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9781441698445Publication Date: 2011
Foreign Workers, Society, Crime and the Law by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9781612098784Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Judicial Power and Strategic Communication in Mexico by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9780511749896Publication Date: 2010
Tort, Custom, and Karma: Globalization and Legal Consciousness in Thailand by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9780804773751Publication Date: 2010
Examining Practice, Interrogating Theory: Comparative Legal Studies in Asia by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9789047440390Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Thinking with Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History by Call Number: None - eBookISBN: 9781435666245Publication Date: 2007-01-01
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The Globalization of Childhood by Call Number: KF9227.C2 L56 2016ISBN: 9780190601379Publication Date: 2016-08-04
Foreign Law? Congress V. the Supreme Court by Call Number: None- eBookISBN: 9781593327781Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Foreign Firms, Investment, and Environmental Regulation in the People's Republic of China by ISBN: 9780804771535Publication Date: 2010-09-01- Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law by ISBN: 0275970698Publication Date: 2002-12-30
