Foreign Law Guide

Marci Hoffman is Lecturer in Residence and Associate Director of the University of California, Berkeley Law Library. She served as the foreign, comparative and international law librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library from 1993 to 1999 and was the international and foreign law librarian at Georgetown University Law Library from 1999-2003. In summer 2003 she began serving as the international and foreign law librarian at the University of California, Berkeley Law Library, and was appointed associate director of the law library in 2006.

Ms. Hoffman teaches an international and foreign legal research seminar. She has done extensive work with the American Society of International Law and is an expert on international and foreign law resources and legal research. Ms. Hoffman also has broad experience working with human rights materials and was the co-director of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/). She has written a number of articles on international and foreign legal research, and in
2003 she developed an international law web portal called Electronic Information System for International Law (www.eisil.org). In addition, Ms. Hoffman is the co-author, with Mary Rumsey, of International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook (2d ed. 2012).

She recently received the 2012 Distinguished Librarian Award from the Librarians Association of the University of California, Berkeley.

Co-Founding Editors: Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores

Assistant Editors:
Jennifer Allison, Harvard Law Library
Leah Granger, Berkeley Law Library
Mary Rumsey, University of Minnesota Law Library

Editorial Advisory Board:
Michelle Hou, International Committee of the Red Cross Library
Petal Kinder, High Court of Australia
Teresa Miguel, Yale Law Library
Pedro Padilla, University of Puerto Rico
Mary Rumsey, University of Minnesota
Jeroen Vervliet, Peace Palace Library
Jean Wenger, Cook County Law Library
Jules Winterton, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library

Librarians, academics, researchers, and students of foreign and comparative law will find an indispensable and time-saving resource in the FLG.

“The Foreign Law Guide is an indispensable resource for beginning any foreign law research project and for considering a comprehensive array of country-specific materials. Its authoritative and thorough country-by-country analysis has made my job easier on a daily basis.” – Heidi Frostestad Kuehl, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian, Northwestern University School of Law

“If you were stuck on a desert island and forced to do foreign legal research, you’d want to take the Foreign Law Guide, a source that many foreign and comparative international law librarians call “the Bible” of foreign law research.” – Mary Rumsey, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian, University of Minnesota

“I highly recommend the Foreign Law Guide, which includes…scholarly accounts of constitutional legal histories and comments on legislative and judicial systems.” – Lesley Dingle, Foreign and International Law Librarian, Squire Law Library, University of Cambridge, and Founder of Eminent Scholars Archive.

“Foreign Law Guide’s superb citations are keys to unlocking the riches of your print and electronic collections. FLG is the ultimate FCIL information leveraging tool.” – Don Ford, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian, University of Iowa College of Law Library

The Foreign Law Guide systematically covers the following jurisdictions.

- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Andean Community
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Central African Rep
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Congo (Brazza)
- Congo (Kinshasa)
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Rep
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- European Union
- Falkland Islands
- Finland
- France
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Int.Conven.&Treaties
- Introduction
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Korea
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saudi Arabia
- Sénégal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten
- Slovak Republic
- Slovenia
- Somali
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St. Chris-Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St.Vince&Grenadines
- Sudan
- Surinam
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tadzhikstan
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks & Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe