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LEGAL RESOURCES:  INTERNATIONAL LAW COLLECTIONS 
   

 

  NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS/LEGISLATIVE BODIES

Web Sites of National Parliaments
 
Information about parliaments and domestic political systems.

Parliaments on the Web 
Maintained by Inter- Parliamentary Union, international organization of Parliaments of sovereign States. Over a hundred national parliaments are currently members of the IPU. 
   

 

  CONSTITUTIONS OF OTHER NATIONS 

Constitution Finder

This index offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents of the nations of the world.
   

 

 

  INTERNATIONAL LEGAL SOURCES 

Internet Law Library - Laws of other nations
 
The Internet Law Library (formerly the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library) was originally provided to the public courtesy of the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives as part of the Counsel's mission to make the law (particularly the U.S. Code) available to the public. 

 

Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
Foreign Collections By Jurisdiction, Databases, Foreign & Int'l Search Engines.

 

Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Legal Professional Locator Directory of lawyers, law librarians, law firm administrators, and other legal professionals and service providers.

Internet Legal Resource Guide 
A categorized index of more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as more than 850 locally stored web pages and downloadable files, this site was established to serve as a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the United States of America.

 

Law from Around the World 
The LII collection of world legal materials gathers, country by country, continent by continent, the Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and related legal material from around the globe (excluding the U.S. material held in the LII's other collections). It also holds resources and document collections of International law.

 

Guide to International Law 
This guide provides the principal international documents, treaties and governmental agencies.

 

Guide To European Legal Databases
LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal and library professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools. This guide provides information organized by country and by topic.

 

International Journal of Legal Information 
The International Journal of Legal Information, the official publication of the International Association of Law Libraries seeks to advance the exchange of legal information throughout the world. 

 

   

 

  MULTILATERAL TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS 

Law Library of Congress: Treaties

Contains collection of treaties and online research guides. 

 

Avalon Project, Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Digital documents from pre-18th century through 1999. Coverage is international, but the primary focus is on the U.S. Includes U.S. bilateral treaties 1778 - 1999, U.S. multilateral treaties 1864 - 1999 and treaties between the U.S. and Native Americans.

 

International Multilateral Conventions
The Multilaterals Project, begun in 1992, is an ongoing project at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments. The collection includes treaties in the fields of human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas. 

 

United Nations Treaty Collection 
United Nations Treaty Series and Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General. Includes Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General and Reservations. Subscription required.