Law

Via GlobaLex. Author: Mary Rumsey. Updated August 2016.

The information and articles published by GlobaLex represent both research and teaching resources used by legal academics, practitioners and other specialists around the world who are active either in foreign, international, and comparative law research or those focusing on their own domestic law. The guides and articles published are written by scholars well known in their respective fields and are recommended as a legal resource by universities, library schools, and legal training courses. The tools available in GlobaLex will continue to expand to cover international law topics, countries and legal systems thus providing a coherent and encompassing research tool for all constituencies.

The Guide to Law Online, prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.

Six legal systems – civil law, common law, customary law, Muslim law and mixed systems – are briefly described, and the world’s “political entities” (mostly countries) are listed and classified according to the system under which they operate. The site is created by JuriGlobe, a research group formed by professors from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.

Classification of legal systems and corresponding political entities - Alphabetical Index of the Political Entities and Corresponding Legal Systems.

Researchers are able to locate and utilize detailed information on laws and lawmaking in various jurisidictions. While the information on the parliamentary websites is primarily in the national language of the particular country, around forty of the individual websites provide at least limited information in one or more other languages.