Resource Spotlight: GlobaLex

What is GlobaLex?

GlobaLex is an award-winning open-access e-resource useful for foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) research. GlobaLex includes guides for researching the law of non-U.S. jurisdictions and general FCIL-related articles written by foreign law librarians, legal information professionals, legal academics, practitioners, and other law specialists worldwide. GlobaLex is updated six (6) times a year.

GlobaLex was founded in 2005 by Mirela Roznovschi, the Foreign and International Law Librarian at New York University School of Law. She served as the founding editor until 2015. Since 2015, Lucie Olejnikova, Associate Director for Foreign and International Law at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, has been the Editor-In-Chief of GlobaLex through its recent 2024 redesign. GlobaLex is supported by the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies at New York University School of Law.

How do I access GlobaLex?

You can access this resource directly from this link or search for it in Database Finder: Law.

How do I use GlobaLex?

GlobaLex is divided into four sections: International Law, Comparative Law, Foreign Law, Tools for Developing International and Foreign Law Collections.

The International Law section includes articles on topics such as Dispute Settlement (international arbitration), European Union, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, International Commercial Law, International Criminal Law, International Environmental Law, Regional Instruments, Regional Instruments – Trade, Terrorism, and the United Nations.

The Comparative Law section includes articles on topics such as Comparative Law Research, Conflict Resolution, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Immigration Law, Procedural Law, and Religious Law.

The Foreign Law section includes legal research guides for over 160 jurisdictions. For those countries, the guides include an overview the legal systems, legal history, governments, sources of primary law (constitutions, statutes, codes, regulations, court cases), links to databases and online sources, and lists of journals, books, and other secondary publications.

You can browse the legal research guides and articles in each section or do a full-text search of the entire GlobaLex collection using the search bar at the top of the page.

If you have any questions about this database, please feel free to request a research consultation or Ask a Law Librarian.