Legal Research Databases: Foreign and International Law

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Use WorldCat@OSU to search for articles and other digital resources across seven databases: Academic Search Complete, Directory of Open Access Journals, Gale Academic OneFile, MasterFILE Complete, Newspaper Source Plus, OAIster, and WorldCat.org.

Global database pertaining to international commercial arbitration and mediation dispositions. New data is added continuously as cases are closed. Click "Subscriber login," then "Organization login" to access.

Global-Regulation is a searchable database of indexed regulatory case studies in a variety of industries, fields, topics and countries. Includes regulations and laws from 41 countries and translates laws into English using machine translation.

An electronic legal publication with international, foreign, and comparative law research tools. For best results, always view the "UPDATE" link next to the relevant guide.

Online platform covering case law from the Superior and Appellate Courts in England and Wales.

Platform for international arbitration research. Includes primary sources such as treaties, legislation, articles of conventions, as well as expert commentary such as books and journals.

Platform for foreign and international IP law research. Includes case law, news and legislation relating to industrial law, patent law, copyright and trademark law.

Series of encyclopedias of foreign and international law covering 25 fields of law. Each encyclopedia contains country-by-country monographs. Select "Encyclopaedias" from menu options at top of the screen to access titles in the series.

Digital collection of treatises and other works covering foreign, comparative and international law including Roman, Islamic, Jewish and Ancient law texts. Search for individual titles in the library’s catalog by title, subject or keyword.

Digital collection of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and other northern European countries. Includes important sources of historical statutes and regulations for the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland.

Manupatra provides full-text access to case decisions, statutes, bills, legislative history documents, government notifications, legal forms and other law documents from India. Users select "Click here to start your research" to gain access.

Major reference resource containing over 1600 peer-reviewed, scholarly articles on public international law.

Full text access in English and other languages to official UN documents including General Assembly resolutions.

Oxford Constitutions of the World includes English translations and background materials for over 400 countries and sub-national jurisdictions worldwide. Includes access to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law.

Oxford Legal Research Library (OLRL) provides access to key law titles in a variety of subject areas. OLRL currently includes four collections, International Commercial Arbitration, International Commercial Law, Financial and Banking Law, and Private International Law. Each collection can be browsed and searched separately, or users can search them together via integrated access.

Decisions on public international law from international and domestic courts including over 5000 case reports with commentary.

Full-text, online editions of major treatises and reference works on international law published by Oxford University Press.

Chinese laws and regulations from 1949 to the present, decisions of the Supreme People's Court or the Supreme People's Procurate, tax treaties, gazettes, legal news, WTO rules relating to China, and law journals. Includes both Chinese and English language translation versions.

Collection containing the following databases: United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, and Photos.

Full-text library of UK case law (1855-present) and legislation (1235-present). Includes updated materials for common law jurisdictions, including Canada and Australia, as well as the Times Law Reports, English Reports, and International Law Reports.

Current constitutions for every country, constitutional histories, texts on constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development and a bibliography of selected constitutional books. Searchable by country or resource.