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Get started with Legal Research Essentials
Legal Research Essentials Pressbook is your key reference guide to legal research at the University of Queensland Library. This Pressbook contains chapters on:
- the legal research process
- using the UQ Law Library
- finding secondary resources
- case law
- legislation
- referencing using AGLC4.
Useful websites
- JuriGlobeGeneral information relating to the different legal systems in the world.
- Guide to Law Online: NationsCountry directory of sources of online law by the Library of Congress.
- Foreign, Comparative and International Law Research (via GlobaLex)Country subject guides for foreign law research.
- Trans-Lex.orgProvides selected translations of foreign law material.
- WorldLII - World Legal Information InstituteLinks to case law, legislation and legal scholarship from around the world.
- NATLEX (International Labour Organization)Contains national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department
- Global Legal Information CatalogContains information about publications which reprint the laws and regulations of multiple jurisdictions on a particular legal topic.