China Legal Research: Laws and Regulations

China Laws

Hong Kong Laws

The following resources provide the actual text of legislation (summaries or full text) of foreign countries by topic. Most are in English but for some countries it may be difficult, if not impossible, to access the legislation in English. Some of these are in print or electronic versions. This list is not meant to be exhaustive. 

• Air / Space / Maritime - National Space Laws; Maritime Laws; Regulation of Drones
• Agriculture - FAOLEX
• Animal Law - Global Animal Law Project
• Antitrust and Competition Law - Worldwide Competition Database / OAS Countries
• Arbitration - ASIL International Arbitration Statutes / International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) / Kluwer Arbitration
• Banking & Credit -  Doing Business In; Central Bank Laws; Internet Banking; Global Banking Laws; Cryptocurrency
• Business & Commercial  Doing Business Laws / Westlaw Business Laws by Country /  Checkpoint / Global Insolvency Laws /
• Corruption - IBA Anti-Money Laundering Forum; Int'l Money Laundering Information Network
• Criminal - Extradition Laws;  Legislationline; Foreign Penal Codes; Death Penalty Worldwide; Domestic Laws against Genocide; UNODC Legal Library; ICC Legal Tools;  SHERLOC Organized Crime; Violence Against Women; Piracy; Miranda Warning Equivalents
• Cultural Heritage - UNESCO Database / IFAR Art Law & Cultural Heritage Database
• Drugs - UNODC Legal Library / 
• Election Law - ACE Election Laws / IFES Election Materials / Asian Laws / Political Database of the Americans
• Environment - ECOLEX / FAOLEX / FISHLEX / http://urbanlex.unhabitat.org/UrbanLex
• Family law - OAS Family & Child Law / Children's Rights
• Food - FAOLEX
• Health - WHO International Digest of Health Legislation / Global Health & Human Rights Database
• Human Rights - Legislationline / Global Health & Human Rights Database / UN Human Trafficking / International Anti-Trafficking Legislation / Labour Exploitation / Disabilities Law / UN Women’s Family Law Database
• Humanitarian Laws - ICRC / Genocide 
• Immigration/Asylum - Refworld
• Intellectual Property - WIPO Lex / Asian IP Laws / Copyright laws of UNESCO members
• Investment Law - NatLaw World
• Labor - NORMLEX /  Doing Business In / EPLex / Labour Exploitation
• Mining - FAOLEX
• Population - Abortion Laws of the World / Minority-related National Legislation
• Privacy - WorldLII; Data Protection Laws Around the World
• Securities -  Doing Business In
• Tax - Thomson Reuters Checkpoint / Doing Business In
• Trade - WorldTradeLaw / WTO  / Doing Business In
• Weapons - WMD