Secondary Sources

To gain some background knowledge about the legal system of the country you are researching, consider various secondary sources such as legal textbooks or journal articles. For example:

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals via HeinOnline
Indexes articles and book reviews in over 500 legal journals published worldwide. This multilingual index provides in-depth coverage of comparative and foreign law, public and private international law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. A print version covering the period 1960-1995 is located at LAW LIBRARY Reference Room (level 2): K 33 I527.