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Research - Secondary Sources
- Check Yale’s F/I webpage for databases specific to your jurisdiction
- Research Guides
- Yale’s F/I Webpage – consolidation of F/I databases and guides
- Country-by-Country Research Guide – portal to research guides and major databases for every country; these research guides vary from explanatory legal system guides to lists of legal resource links.
- Foreign Law Guide – comprehensive, in-depth research guide for every country, with titles of print and links to electronic primary and secondary sources; also available in print (Z675 .L2 A23 - F/I Office) (Yale subscription)
- GlobaLex – in-depth legal research guides
- LLRX – in-depth legal research guides
- WorldLII – lists of links to electronic resources
- HLS – Harvard's lists of links to foreign law online sources
- Nations of the World – Library of Congress' lists of web links
Legal Research in a Nutshell, 9th Ed. – F/I chapters (KF240 .C54 – L5, Ref, F/I Ref)
International Legal Research in a Nutshell, 1st Ed. (KZ1234 . H64 - L1, Ref, F/I Ref)
Encyclopedias and other reference materials give an overview of jurisdiction and/or subject matter often annotated and with bibliography -- Begin with Keyword searches in Morris / Encore and Orbis (e.g. encyclopedia and environment*)
- International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (K530 .I57 – F/I Office)
- Encyclopedia of World Constitutions (K3157.E5 E53 – Ref)
- Legal Systems of the World (K48 L44 – Ref)
- Oxford Companion to Law (K48 .W34 – Ref, F/I Ref, UES)
- Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (K48 .E42 – F/I Ref, Ref, UES)
- Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia (K583 .R313 M63 – F/I Ref)
- Germain’s Transnational Law Guide (K85 .G47 – Ref, F/I Ref, UES)
- Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest (K526.2 .M37 – Ref); Lexis (INTDIG)
- Szladits – A Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law: Books and Articles in English (1955 – 1998) (K38 .B53 – L1, F/I Office)
Scholarly articles (all are Yale subscriptions except open-access SSRN and Google Scholar)
Westlaw and Lexis – full-text searching
SSRN – full-text working papers
Google Scholar – Yale links to full-text and open access
JSTOR – interdisciplinary, full-text, mostly US/UK; includes F/I journals
Check the main Library’s databases webpage and the online journals and newspapers search engine
Monographs
- We have over 200,000 foreign and interntional
- Begin with Keyword searches in Morris/Encore, Orbis
- When you find a relevant book, if you want to find more like it
- click on the Call No. (KKT246 .B46) to see what books are grouped with it -- or go to the stacks and look!
- click on the Subject Heading (Civil Law – Spain) to find other books that have been assigned this same label
- Our foreign law collections for each country are not so large that you can’t just go into the stacks on the LES with th Call Number of the country you are researching (e.g. KKT for Spain) and browse the shelves. No country occupies more than a few rows, and most take up less than one. Older monographs are held in the off-campus Library Shelving Facility (LSF) and can be requested from the catalog.
Dictionaries
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