Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Research

Produced by NYU's Journal of International Law and Politics, this widely-used guide includes rules for citation for 45 countries, as well as rules for citing treaties and materials from international organizations. On reserve at the circulation desk. The 2006 edition is freely available as a PDF on NYU's website.

Produced by Cardiff University in Wales, the Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations is a searchable online tool for looking up the meaning of abbreviations of legal codes, reporters, and periodicals from more than 295 jurisdictions worldwide. For example, if you see a reference to “C.Instr.Crim.” and don't know what it means, you can look it up here to determine that it refers to the French Code d'instruction criminelle (Code of Criminal Procedure).

Wolters Kluwer's international journal titles are available through this portal on HeinOnline. This collection is especially strong in international business, trade, and taxation.

Includes “French, German, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. The English translations of decisions from Germany and France include cases from the Reichsgericht, the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the Bundesgerichtshof, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the Conseil d’Etat and the Cour de Cassation.”

Introductory text to researching a variety of FCIL topics. Includes chapters on treaty research, travaux préparatoires, customary international law, and decisions from international courts and tribunals.

Free tool allowing easy identification of the types of legal systems in place in jurisdictions around the world. Includes maps and related data (such as language distribution and populations by legal system type).

(Bruno Simma et al. eds., 3rd, Oxford 2012).

(Bruno Simma et al. eds., 3rd, Oxford 2012).

A Commentary (Andreas Zimmermann et al. eds., 3rd, Oxford 2019).

Paul M. Taylor, A Commentary on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: The UN Human Rights Committee's Monitoring of ICCPR Rights (Cambridge 2020).

Travaux Préparatoires, Volume I (Ben Saul ed., Oxford 2016).

Travaux Préparatoires, Volume II (Ben Saul ed., Oxford 2016).

Ben Saul, David Kinley & Jaqueline Mowbray, The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Commentary, Cases, and Materials (Oxford 2014).

The Council of Europe: Its Law and Policies (Stefanie Schmahl & Marten Breuer eds., Oxford 2017).

Eileen Denza, Diplomatic Law: Commentary on the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (Oxford 2016).

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties A Commentary (Oliver Dörr & Kirsten Schmalenbach eds., Springer 2018).