Foreign governments publish their statutes, administrative rules, and judicial decisions with diverse systems and limitations. Begin foreign law research by familiarizing yourself with the government's structure and publications. Then, you will know where to look for the information you need from the government entities.
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Tips for finding foreign law - A research guide with progressively desparate steps for locating foreign law.
Foreign Law Guide - Subscription database identifying resources that publish original texts, sections from, and translations of foreign codes.
Parliaments - A database directory with facts about and links to foreign parliaments.
Legislation - Click on a country name to find Web sites with all or parts of its legislation in the original language and in translation.
Courts - A list of subscriptions and Web sources with foreign case decisions.
Official Gazettes - Governments' daily or weekly documentation of their activities. These typically contain proposed and recently enacted laws.
Constitutions - Link to Web versions of countries' organizing documents.
National Int Law Yearbooks - Subscription database with annual documentation of countries' or regions' involvements with international law.
National Libraries - Link to libraries operated by foreign governments.
Parliamentary Libraries - Link to libraries containing foreign governments' official documents.
Foreign Relations Officers - Locate contacts at foreign embassies to the U.S.
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If any of these resources ask you for a user name and password, log-in to https://sslvpn.pitt.edu with your Pitt user name and password and look for the source in the University's database list. If you still can't get in, you will have to access it from a computer inside the law school building.
