Best Place to Start Your Foreign Law Research

Foreign law questions come up in regularly in many areas of legal practice – family law, immigration,  tax, business, and environmental law to name just a few.

We offer you an excellent database to start your foreign law research. The Foreign Law Guide provides relevant and up-to-date information on foreign law, including citations to specific legislation by country, the existence of English-language translations, and select references to secondary sources.

You can use the Foreign Law Guide to locate specific laws of different countries, say the Civil Aviation Act from New Zealand or regulations on commercial secrets from Saudi Arabia. You can also browse laws by subject, giving you an easy way of researching for example laws on climate change in Latin American countries.

If you’re interested in learning more about foreign law research, we have two foreign law focused videos in our Legal Research Seminar series – Researching Foreign Law and The Bluebook: Citing to Foreign Sources.

If you have any questions on foreign law sources, reach out to us at research.services@law.csuohio.edu