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Central Bank Legislation Database  
  • Legislation of Central Banks around the world
  • Available at the Law Library
Commonwealth Legal Information Institute  
  • Legal Information from most Commonwealth countries
Diario Oficial de la Federación  
  • Mexico Official Gazette
  • Available at the Law Library 
Diario Oficial de la Republica de Chile  
  • Official Gazette
  • Access via IP  
Doing Business  
  • Business laws and regulations
eSilec Pro  
  • Available at the Law Library
  • Ecuadorian legislation from 1812 to the present
Finanzas Carbono  
  • Plataforma sobre Finaciamiento de Carbono para América Latina
Fitch Ratings Research  
  • Available at the Law Library

GLIN

 
  • Global Legal Information Network 
  • Legislation from most countries, and several international organizations
HeinOnline  
  • Code of Federal Regulations 
  • Intellectual property resources
  • Foreign & international legal databases
  • Multiple Law Journals
  • US Code
  • Training Guides
The Hemispheric Information Exchange Network for Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters and Extradition  
  • Legal information related to mutual assistance and extradition for the 34 OAS member states 

 

Instrumentos Jurídicos de Integración  
  • INTAL (IDB)
  • Compilación de textos normativos, comentarios y seguimiento de los compromisos jurídicos básicos de los distintos procesos de integración de América Latina y el Caribe
International Migration Law Database  
  • Information about immigration at the international, regional and national levels
ISDA  
  • International Swap and Derivatives Association
  • Available at the Law Library
La Ley   
  • Paraguay, Official Gazette
  • Available at the Law Library
Legis  
  • Colombia, Legislation and Official Gazette
  • Available at the Law Library
Lexis Nexis   
  • Available at the Law Library
Metabase bibliografia en red  
  • Library resources from various libraries and documentation centers in Central America and Mexico
Multilateral Project  
  • Texts of international multilateral conventions
  • The Fletcher School
NatLaw  
 
 
  • National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade 
  • Collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source  materials for countries in the Americas
  • IP based paid subscription
Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence(OGEL)
 
 
  • International journal focusing on recent developments in the area of oil-gas-energy law, regulation, treaties, judicial and arbitral cases, voluntary guidelines, tax and contracting, including the oil-gas-energy geopolitics.
  • Paid version, IP recognition
Oxford Reports on International Law  
  • Decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals.
  • Case reports include headnotes, summary of case facts and judicial holdings, full text of the opinion of the courts, analytical commentary from scholarly experts, accurate translations of non-English judgments, and a list of cases and instruments cited
Parline Database on National Parliaments   
  • Database contains information on the structure and working methods of 266 parliamentary chambers in all of the 189 countries where a national legislature exists
Political Database of the Americas  
  • Constitutions, Executive Branch, Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, Electoral Systems and Data, Political Parties, Decentralization and Local Governance, Democracy and Citizen Security, Indigenous Peoples and Democracy, Civil Society
  • Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service & Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University 
Sistema Peruano de Información Jurídica  
  • Peruvian Legislation
  • Full access at the Law Library
TDM (Transnational Dispute Management)  
  • Comprehensive and innovative information service on the management of international disputes, with a focus on the rapidly evolving area of investment arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities etc).
  • Paid version, IP recognition
UN Data   
  • Statistics from the UN system
UNILAW Database  
  • Access by Governments, judges, arbitrators, practicing lawyers and scholars to up-to-date information regarding uniform law conventions and other instruments
  • International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
UNILEX on CISG & UNIDROIT Principles (International Case Law & Bibliography)  
  • Database of international case law and bibliography on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
vLex  
  • Access legislation, gazettes, news, journals and publications from multiple countries
  • Publications from the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Gale, Dickynson, JM Bosch and others
  • IP based paid subscription
World Legal Information Institute  
  • Legal Information from around the world