Need Help Researching Law in a Foreign Jurisdiction? The University of Wisconsin Law Library maintains a growing collection of country-specific legal research guides designed to help you get started. Each guide provides an introduction to a country’s legal system and government structure, and directs you to key primary and secondary sources — including constitutions, legislation, case law, legal journals, and more — available through the Law Library and online.
Whether you’re working on a comparative law issue or simply trying to understand how a foreign legal system works, these guides are a great place to begin.
We’ve recently added four new guides to the collection:
- Turkey Legal Research Guide
- Qatar Legal Research Guide
- China Legal Research Guide
- Iran Legal Research Guide
These join our existing country and region guides for Canada, Chile, England, Germany, India, Mexico, the European Union, and South Asia.
For further help with foreign and international legal research, see the Foreign and Comparative Law Guide, among other guides related to international law, available on our complete list of research guides.
By Sunil Rao, Foreign & International Law Librarian, UW Law Library