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Find Statutory & Regulatory Codes.
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Find Case Law
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Learn the country's general government structure
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Look for an international organization's compilation of national laws on a particular subject. Here are a few: FAOLEX, from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, links to national agricultural laws. NATLEX, from the International Labor Organization, collects national labor and employment laws. ECOLEX has environmental laws. WIPO has national intellectual property laws. The Security Council compiles national laws about weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Red Cross, ICRC, has full-text statutes & cases showing national implementation of humanitarian law. The World Criminal Justice Library Network is a portal to national criminal law offices, journals, and other informaiton. |
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Post to a listserv used by lawyers and law librarians from around the world.
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Look in PittCat for a comparative law treatise about the area of law you're researching.
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Find scholarly articles in journals and law reviews that quote the law or have that article author's original translation of the law.
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Look for a Globalex research guide.
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Contact either that country's embassy where you live or else your country's embassy in the country you are researching.
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Contact a law library that collects law materials from the country you are researching. Ask a law school in the country you are researching if they will fax it to you. Here is a worldwide portal of libraries . Find out what is available from national government libraries and parliamentary libraries. |