Pritzker Legal Research Center: International Media Law and Related Human Rights: Foreign Law

Overview

This section provides a very brief overview of how to find laws and cases from countries other than the United States. For a much more detailed overview on how to find foreign legal materials, please see the Foreign Legal Research Guide.

Constitutions

Constitute Project
Provides access to constitutions from around the world, making it easy to compare the constitution or constitutional provisions of one country with other countries.
World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline)
Provides access to current and historical versions of constitutions from around the world both in English and in the national languages.

Country Research Guides

Consult a country-specific research guide to understand a country's legal system and its sources of law and to obtain recommendations for relevant resources to retrieve foreign legal materials.

GlobaLex
Free resource containing research guides organized by country under the "Foreign Law Research" section.
Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds & Flores)
Contains research guides for over 190 jurisdictions providing information on sources of foreign law, including legislation and selected secondary sources.
Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
Provides authoritative links to find a country's constitution, materials from the executive, judicial, and legislative bodies, as well as suggestions for legal guides and general sources pertaining to researching the law of that country.

Foreign Media Law Resources

These resources summarize laws and/or cases or provide access to legal materials from selected countries around the world pertaining to media law.

Columbia University - Global Freedom of Expression
Provides access to case law on freedom of expression from around the world.
International Encyclopaedia for Media Law
Offers a country-by-country survey of media law throughout the world, surveying each country's media landscape and analyzing the laws governing press freedom, including those concerning access to information, defamation and privacy. Each national monograph outlines the regulatory structures controlling print and electronic media in these countries. Legal acts, case law, and ethical codes used by journalists are presented and analyzed.