QUICK GUIDE:  FOREIGN LEGAL RESEARCH BASICS

Sources of Last Resort for Locating Foreign Laws

• Embassy.org
  
  
  • The Electronic Embassy provides information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to Web-based resources where available. Often a foreign embassy or consulate office may be able to supply a copy of a law in translation.
    
    
• Law Library, Library of Congress
  101 Independence Ave., S.E.
  James Madison Memorial Bldg.
  Washington, D.C. 20540-3000
  Metro stop: Capitol South
  
  
• The Law Library of Congress provides reference service to its extensive holdings of foreign law materials. When conducting research at the Library, the library requests that readers doing foreign legal research begin their work in the Law Library Reading Room as a first step, prior to obtaining direct assistance from the foreign legal research staff. For information about reader registration requirements, go here.
  
  
• Important Numbers:
  
  
  • Foreign Law Research and Reference Inquiries: (202) 707-4351
    
    
  • Eastern Law Division (202) 707-5085
  • Western Law Division (202) 707-5077
  • Email inquires may be submitted here.

     

    Last updated: 7/20/07