POLI 330 - Law and Courts in Europe

Guides to Foreign Law Research

• GlobaLex
  Guides to legal research by country. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU.
• World Legal Information Institute
  Case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, and journals from countries worldwide.
• LLRX
  Guides to international legal research.

Guides to Constitutional Law

• International Constitutional Law: Countries
  English translations of, and textual material related to, constitutional documents worldwide.
• Constitution Finder
  Links to past and present versions of national constitutions.
• Europa: N-Lex
  Links to national legislation for member countries of the European Union.

Encyclopedias

• Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
  General overview of a country's government and history, with accompanying bibliography.
• Legal Systems of the World: a Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia
  Detailed information for each country. Shelved in the Nahum Gelber Law Library, call number K 48 L44 2002.

Country Profiles 

• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
• Europa World Plus
• U.S. Library of Congress Country Studies
• Stateman’s Yearbook
• More country reports are listed here

Policy Research and Reports

• World Bank e-library
  World Bank publications and policy research working papers.
• Venice Commission
  The Council of Europe's advisory body on constitutional matters. Reports, documents, links.
• CODICES
  The Venice Commission's constitutional case-law database.

Databases

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
  Indexes books, book chapters, and journals related to anthropology, economics, politics and sociology.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest)
  Provides abstracts of journal articles, citations to book reviews, and abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers in political science and international relations.
• International Political Science Abstracts (EBSCO)
  Indexes journals related to political science, international relations.
• PAIS International (ProQuest)
  Indexes journals and magazines related to global public policy and social issues.
• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
  Provides access to full-text documents and citations from international relations journals, and policy briefs by international think tanks.

Selected News Sources (online)

• PressDisplay
  Browse online national and international newspapers, by country.
• Factiva
  International and Canadian publications. Search by date, newspaper, author, keyword, subject.
• Lexis-Nexis
  Local, international news,legal sources.
• World News Connection
  Full-text summaries of non-US newspaper articles, both translated and English language sources. Continues FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index
• BBC Monitoring Country Profiles
  Sorted by region, each country profile provides a map, short historical review, a timeline of key events, quick country facts, biography of the head of government, links to media in each country, and relevant news items.

Public Opinion Data and Related Resources

• European Commission: Public Opinion
  Data from surveys and studies that address major topics concerning European citizenship.
• Eurobarometer Interactive Search System
• CESSDA - Council of European Social Science Data Archives
  Data portal for social science data for secondary use.
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social - Research (ICPSR)
  Data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.
• OECD iLibrary
  The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has detailed statistics available for its 31 member countries. Information available includes a 100-indicator statistical profile per country, a statistics portal arranged by topic, and OECD publications. Information on non-member countries is also available as well, using the non-member drop-down menu.