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General Resources and Guides

• CIA World Factbook
• Codices (Venice Commission) Summaries and full text of decisions made available to the Venice Commission, descriptions of participating courts, and constitutions, including the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
• Commonwealth Legal Information Institute Commonwealth countries, territories and dependencies and other common law jurisdictions.
• Competition & Consumer Protection Authorities Worldwide (Federal Trade Commission)
• Country by Country Guide to Foreign Law Research (Yale Law Library)
• Foreign Official Gazette Database (Center for Research Libraries) Official foreign gazette data, both current and historical.
• Derecho Penal - University of Fribourg Criminal codes and related documents for over 30 countries in various languages.
• Doing Business Guides (World Bank) Current business laws and regulations.
• Eagle-i Internet Portal for Law (University of London) Online legal information sources for UK, European, foreign, comparative, and international law.
• Embassy.org - Washington, D.C. embassies
• EU N-Lex: Common Gateway to National Law National laws for EU member countries
• Trade.gov (U.S. Department of Commerce) Current market snapshots, policy and law descriptions, and business practices worldwide. Continues the State Department's Country Commercial Guides series.
• Foreign and Comparative Law Research Guide (Georgetown Law Library) Key resources for foreign and comparative law research.
• Foreign Law Research Guide (Boston University)
• Foreign Law Translations (University of Texas) French, German, Austrian and Israeli legal materials (including court decisions) in constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law with translations of decisions from Germany and France.
• Foreign Relations of the United States (Department of State) Documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
• Free Access to Law Movement International voluntary association which has as its members more than 50 organizations from around the world
• Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Resources Law Library of Congress resources for foreign law research.
• Global Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Laws Comparison of anti-bribery laws in selected foreign jurisdictions.
• GlobaLex: Foreign Law Guides (NYU Law) International, foreign, and comparative law research guides.
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (State Department) Country reports published annually.
• Immigration and Review Board of Canada - National Documentation Packages Lists of public documents providing information on country conditions.
• International Criminal Court Legal Tools Database Large collection of criminal laws.
• IMOLIN: International Money Laundering Information Network Money laundering and related laws, browseable by country.
• Lexicool Free online translation tools.
• NationMaster Statistical comparisons for countries around the world. The data is mined from the CIA World Factbook, World Bank, the United Nations, OECD, WTO, and other organizations.
• OAS: Hemispheric Network for Legal Cooperation on Criminal Matters Criminal codes and related laws (in various languages) for OAS countries.
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: Legislation Compendium Legislation enacted by State Parties to Chemical Weapons Convention.  
• OSCE LegislationOnline. Constitutions, criminal codes, official gazettes, legislatures, and courts for OSCE countries.
• Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (University of the South Pacific Law School) Legislation, case law, and treaties for 20 Pacific Island nations
• PARLINE Database on National Parliaments Structure and working methods of 272 parliamentary chambers in all of the 193 countries where a national legislature exists.
• Search Systems Sources of public records, including foreign jurisdictions.
• States and Institutions of Governance in Latin America (Georgetown University) Online multilingual database of information on legal and political institutions in Latin American.
• Southern African Legal Information Institute (SafLII) Laws and legal links for Southern African countries.
• UN 1540 Committee Legislative documents related to arms control.
• UNHCR RefWorld Laws, reports, and some case law relating to human rights issues.
• UNODC Sherloc Organized Crime Legislation Contains four databases on transnational organized crime: case law, legislation, competent national authorities, and an annotated bibliography.
• UNODC Tools and Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge (TRACK) Laws, jurisprudence, and anti-corruption authorities, indexed and searchable according to each provision of the UN Convention Against Corruption.
• U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets (US State Department Includes a short history and statistical information.
• WIPO Lex Intellectual property laws for WIPO member countries.
• World Legal Information Institute Links to law-related websites in every country.