Nexis Uni provides access to news, legal, and business sources including journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, newspapers, and legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes.
Political Database of the Americas Contains information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies, and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the Americas. Dates of Coverage: 1995 - current varies by country
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
World Factbook is a publication of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Dates of Coverage: Varies by country.
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Constitute: Constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents arranged alphabetically by country.
FindLaw: Provides U.S. law cases and codes at the federal and state level. It also provides laws and legal issues by topic. "U.S. Laws: Cases and Code" provides Supreme Court opinions as well as U.S. Court of Appeals Cases.
International Business: (Business Reference & Services Section of the American Library Association). A comprehensive list of websites.
International Constitutional Law: Includes text of each constitution, as well as background material, commentary, and a "Key System" that enables comparison of different constitutions.
JuriGlobe World Legal Systems Research Group: Produced by the University of Ottawa. Furnishes legal systems classification, geographic distribution, U.N. member status, demographic distribution, world GDP and GNI per capita distribution, International Trade and Legal Integration, languages and legal systems.
Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet: Prepared by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Library Liaison and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School, D'Angelo Law Library. This vast site provides foreign and international law research guides.
Library of Congress Country Studies: Provide the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
LLRX.com: A free Web journal focusing on technology and legal research, including continuously updated court rules, forms and dockets, and international and comparative law guides.
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development): Best known for its publications and its statistics on 30 member countries, covering economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation.
Congress.gov: Provided by the U.S. Congress, this site furnishes updated information on current legislative activities, bill searches and lists.
Transparency International: Provides corruption measurement tools, such as Corruption Perceptions Index, Bribe Payers Index, Global Corruption Barometer, Global Corruption Report.
United Nations: Includes member states, main bodies, UN system, and more.
The WWW Virtual Library International Affairs Resources: Provides over 2000 carefully selected, annotated links in 35 international affairs categories. It includes international relations and international studies. The International Business & Economics page provides comprehensive country information, international development, European Union, United Nations, and US Government Sources pages.