What's Available
The big three subscription databases provide limited resources for foreign law, primarily in transactional areas like corporate law, tax, and contracts.
Westlaw
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
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
Bloomberg Law features a variety of international materials, largely focused on transactional law. A list of foreign resources on Bloomberg is available here.
