Researching foreign, international, and comparative law can be an intimidating proposition.  There is such a vast amount of material available.  In order to help provide a starting point for researching foreign, international, and comparative law, the Law Library of Congress has prepared a guide to reference sources, compilations, citations guides, periodicals (indexes and databases), dictionaries, web resources, free public web sites, subscription-based services, subject-specific web sites, and country overviews.

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For country specific research, the Law Library of Congress has prepared individual guides for a selection of countries.  Each country’s guide include an introduction to the legal system, official sources of law, print resources, and web resources.

• How to Do Australian Legal Research
• How to Do Brazilian Legal Research
• How to Do British Legal Research
• How to Do Chinese Legal Research
• How to Do Egyptian Legal Research
• How to Do Eritrean Legal Research
• How to Do French Legal Research
• How to Do Hong Kong Legal Research
• How to Do Indian Legal Research
• How to Do Israeli Legal Research
• How to Do Japanese Legal Research
• How to Do Lebanese Legal Research
• How to Do Russian Legal Research
• How to Do Swedish Legal Research

Islamic Law: A Bibliography Of Recent Works

This bibliography covers English-language books and articles within books that discuss Islamic law.

Last Updated: 07/26/2012