IALS librarians have written research guides covering about forty foreign jurisdictions.
The subscription resources mentioned on this tab can be found on the IALS Law Databases page (except Staudinger, which is accessed via the Library Catalogue).
The list of resources below is not exhaustive - other foreign law titles may be available on various databases.
TIPS
Most foreign law e-resources are not covered by Encore Full Text Discovery. For example, Encore does not find content from Beck Online, Le Doctrinal, Lexis 360, Lexis+, Sabinet, SCC Online or Westlaw International Materials.
To access foreign law material on Lexis+® UK, select the International tab.
To access foreign content on Westlaw, select Westlaw International Materials from the IALS Law Databases page. Westlaw's US material is separate from other jurisdictions, via a link on the right-hand side of the International Materials landing page.
Cases
IBFD Online has tax cases from a wide range of jurisdictions.
Foreign Law Guide, a global directory published by Brill, lists print and online sources of cases for almost every jurisdiction in the world, gives links to online sources, and provides an overview of each jurisdiction's history and legal system.
Legislation
Foreign Law Guide, a global directory published by Brill, gives the titles and citations of legislation for almost every jurisdiction of the world, arranged by subject; it gives links to online sources of legislation, where available.
World Constitutions Illustrated, a module of HeinOnline, provides the current and historical constitutions for every jurisdiction, with commentary and bibliographies.
Journals
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals indexes law journals from all around the world, about 600 journals in total.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library includes full-text journals from more than 80 jurisdictions. The number of titles available per jurisdiction varies widely.
Other
IBFD Online has surveys and analysis of tax regimes worldwide.
Foreign Law Guide gives an overview of the history and legal system of each jurisdiction, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Practical Law's Global Guides provide overviews of about twenty areas of law in between thirty to sixty jurisdictions, accompanied by a comparison tool (via Practical Law's Resources tab).
Lexis+® has Lex Mundi's Guide to Doing Business in... for about twenty foreign jurisdictions (via My Sources - View All Sources - US).
Eagle-i: a gateway to high-quality legal information on the internet, covering many different jurisdictions
N-Lex: a search facility covering the national legislation websites of each EU member state
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library has about thirty South African titles and some journals from other African jurisdictions, including Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia; it also has journals focusing on African law in general, including the Journal of African Law.
Sabinet Online has more than thirty African law journals, mostly from South Africa. NB Not all of them come up with the 'Law' filter, but all are on the A-Z list of journals (under 'Publications'), and all are searchable.
SCC Online has cases from about fifteen African jurisdictions (details on SCC coverage page, under 'Foreign Materials').
Lexis+ ® UK has Butterworths Statutes of South Africa and Butterworths South African Constitutional Law Reports (see International tab).
Westlaw International Materials has Constitutional Law of South Africa, a treatise published by Juta.
See also: Multi-jurisdictional sources.
Canada
Westlaw International Materials has Canadian cases and legislation (federal and provincial), almost eighty Canadian journals/newsletters, and more than sixty books, including the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest.
Lexis+® UK has Canadian cases and legislation (federal and provincial) and about twenty Canadian journals; the list of sources puts many, but not all, of the Canadian journals under 'United States'.
HeinOnline has Canada Supreme Court Reports, Revised Statutes of Canada (historical collections of statutes as amended), and about 140 Canadian journals.
Caribbean
vLex has a substantial collection of Caribbean cases, covering eighteen individual states, the Caribbean Court of Justice and the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Lexis+® UK has the West Indian Reports (under Content - Cases - Case Reports).
Westlaw International Materials has primary and secondary legislation from Barbados and the Cayman Islands.
Latin America
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library includes more than fifty Latin American journals.
Lexis+ ® UK has a collection called Jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema de Mexico - Mexican Caselaw, covering Supreme Court cases up about 2004 (under 'United States' in the list of sources).
United States
Lexis+® UK's US content includes federal and state legislation, federal and state cases, about 880 journals and about 280 books, including the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law series (via 'International' tab).
Westlaw International Materials' US content includes federal and state legislation, federal and state cases (with the KeyCite citator), about 1,000 US journals and about 2,500 US books, including the encyclopedia Corpus Juris Secundum.
HeinOnline includes over 2,400 US journals, federal legislation, US Supreme Court cases, presidential material, classic books and more.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books covers over 1,000 US journals, as well as books and other material (see title list).
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository is a database of working papers, reports, lectures, workshop presentations and other scholarship by US academics.
See also: Multi-jurisdictional sources.
Lexis+ ® UK's has:
LexisNexis China Law Database: translated laws, regulations, cases and other material
Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong (an encyclopedia) and a collection of cases from Hong Kong (see 'International' tab)
Lex Mundi's Guide to Doing Business in... for several Asian jurisdictions
Malayan Law Journal (which publishes cases as well as articles), Malayan Court Practice and Unannotated Malaysian Statutes (see 'International' tab)
Jindal Global Law Review (India)
Israel Law Review
SCC Online has:
Indian cases from the late C18th to the present, Indian primary and secondary legislation as amended, articles from about eighty Indian law journals, constitutional documents, bills, official reports and other material
cases from Bangladesh, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand (see SCC coverage page under 'Foreign Materials').
articles from two Singaporean journals and one Bangladeshi journal.
Westlaw International Materials has:
a few books on Chinese law (in English), Hong Kong Law Journal, Hong Kong cases and legislation, one HK book
Korean cases and legislation; about ten Korean journals (all the Korean material is in English, none of it is current.)
two journals from Singpore, two from Taiwan and two from Israel
HeinOnline's Law Journals Library has substantial numbers of Chinese, Indian and Turkish titles; it also has journals from many other Asian jurisdictions, including Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.
vLex has the Singapore Law Reports and a few Singaporean journals.
LLMC Digital has the All India Reporter from 1914 to 1947.
See also: Multi-jurisdictional sources.
Australia
Lexis+® UK has Australian case law and fifteen Australian journals (several of the Australian journals are under 'United States').
Westlaw International has Australian case law and three Australian journals.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library includes over a hundred Australian journals.
New Zealand
Lexis+® UK has New Zealand cases, New Zealand Law Journal, and Laws of New Zealand (an encyclopedia).
Westlaw International Materials has five New Zealand journals.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library has about twenty New Zealand journals.
Index to Legal Periodicals covers some New Zealand journals.
See also: Multi-jurisdictional sources.
France
Lexis 360 has French legislation, cases, encyclopedias, journals and other publications.
Lexis+® UK's International tab has several French journals.
Le Doctrinal indexes over 400 journals, mostly French titles.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library includes about fifteen French titles, mostly historical.
Germany
Beck-Online: IALS Library's subscription to this service covers legislation, books, journals and cases.
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library includes about sixty titles published in Germany.
Staudingers Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch, a commentary on the German Civil Code, is available online via the IALS Library Catalogue (follow link to Juris platform and click on 'Kommentare').
Westlaw International Materials, Lexis+® and HeinOnline all have the open-access title, German Law Journal.
Ireland
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library includes over thirty Irish journals, some current, some historical.
Lexis+® UK has Irish cases - including the Irish Reports - and two Irish journals (located with the UK material: see 'Content' tab).
vLex has the Irish Reports and Irish Digest.
Westlaw UK indexes more than forty Irish journals, a few of which are available in full-text form.
Other
HeinOnline includes law journals from nearly thirty other European jurisdictions, including many in Eastern Europe: see 'Law Journal Library' - 'Browse by' - 'Country'.
Westlaw International Materials includes two Swiss arbitration books.
See also: Multi-jurisdictional sources.