Online guide to researching foreign law written by Mary Rumsey who is Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota. The guide was published in 2005 and updated in 2016 on the Globalex website and is made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author focuses on finding the laws of countries other than the U.S and emphasises statute rather than case law. The guide gives references and links to suggested starting points for research and useful starting points for common legal subjects including family law, immigration, tax, intellectual property, commercial law and transnational litigation. There are strategies for searching library catalogues and information on where to look on subscription databases Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw. The author also suggests key Internet sites and periodical indexes for foreign law.
Basic guide to researching foreign law
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