Comparative Constitutional Law: Databases and Online Resources

This website places basic information about constitution writing within the reach of policy makers, civic leaders, and scholars around the globe. On the site, users will find overviews, short country studies, an ever-expanding number of background papers, datasets, bibliographies, and helpful links.

Focusing on the study of historic and current constitutions of governments, World Constitutions Illustrated enables scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes substantial constitutional histories for all countries. For every constitutional document, researchers can find the original text, amending laws, consolidated text, and important related texts. It also contains constitutional periodicals, thousands of classic books, other related works such as the World Factbook, links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references.

Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research.

Holds a variety of traditional legal materials; including cases, law review articles (both U.S. and global), world constitutions, legislative documents, international treaties and historical and governmental documents.

Index of over 500 Anglo-American legal periodicals. It is the only electronic index for pre-1980 articles.

Indexes articles published principally in non-Anglo-American law journals, essay collections, yearbooks, etc. Articles are in a number of languages. 1985-present.