So it happened. The moment you’ve dreaded – you’ve been tasked with locating the law and legislation of a foreign country. If you aren’t familiar with the legal landscape of that country, the task can be daunting. What will you do? One option is to turn to Reynolds and Flores’ Foreign Law Guide.
The Foreign Law Guide provides users access to information about the primary and secondary legal resources for over 170 countries. This information includes what those important legal resources are, where to find them, and how to use them. The Foreign Law Guide also provides users with web addresses to as many resources as possible. What does this mean for you, the researcher? This means the Guide will tell you where to locate civil, commercial, and criminal codes as well as session laws and court reports (just to name a few types of documentation) all while providing users with a link to those resources on the Internet if one is available.
The Foreign Law Guide also works to maintain a Subject Heading Index for each jurisdiction it covers. This means you can not only get an introduction to a jurisdiction’s legal history and judicial system, but you can also use the Subject Heading Index to locate the laws applicable to your specific subject.
If you have foreign law question, check out the Foreign Law Guide! You can locate it on the Law Library’s Electronic Resources page.
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