The Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law recently launched GlobalLex, a Web-based legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research.

Editor Mirela Roznovschi, reference librarian for international and foreign law at NYU, writes, “GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world.”

The first issue, which was published February 16, features:

  • Doing Legal Research in Brazil
  • Georgia Legal Research
  • Guide to Chinese Law
  • German Business and Commercial Laws: Guide to Translations into English and Select Auxiliary Sources
  • The Lithuanian Legal System
  • Nigerian Legal Information
  • Legal Research in Spain
  • Finding the Law: the Micro-States and Small Jurisdictions of Europe
  • Foreign Law: Subject Law Collections on the Web
  • Guide on the Harmonization of International Commercial Law
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