Foreign Legal Research: Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg

Currently, Westlaw has the best foreign law coverage of the three databases. Most are practice-oriented.

From Westlaw's home page, select Practical Law to locate the following foreign law resources:

• Select the Resource Types tab > then select Global Guides and Cross-Border Topics
  • Global Guides
  • Cross-Border Topics
• Select Global Home from the top of the Practical Law page
  • Select Practice Areas,
  • Featured Countries or
  • All Countries or
  • Global In-house Resources
  • Country Q & A comparison tool
• Tip: Use "Related Content" when available
• Tip: Search in both Global Home and Global Guides

For links to Foreign primary and secondary material:

• From WESTLAW EDGE Home page, click on International Materials
• Search by Jurisdiction or Content.
• Additional materials on far right (International Arbitration, Journals, etc.

Lexis provides good international news coverage for all countries and some primary source coverage for a few countries.

• From the "International" tab on the home page, select "View All Countries and Regions."

Search by legal topic or law review articles:

• All International Law Treatises, Guides & Jurisprudence.
  • Especially useful are the Getting the Deal Through and Lex Mundi series.
• All International Law Reviews

Bloomberg Law also has the series Getting the Deal Through

• Begin by clicking on "Secondary Sources" in the upper right of the home page.
• Select "Search Reference Materials."
• Under the list of sources, scroll down to "Getting the Deal Through." Use the dropdown menu to browse volumes by topic.
• Once you've identified a volume on your topic of interest, click the "T.O.C." button to browse the contents of the volume.

For a comprehensive collection of materials on International Trade, visit Bloomberg's International Trade Practice Center.

A variety of other international materials are available to browse through this link.