Foreign Law Research: Secondary Sources

• These are books about your selected country & its law (e.g., Chile: Law & the Legitimation of Transitions: From the Patrimonial State to the International Neo-Liberal State)
• Library catalog will identify print & digital resources at Univ. of Idaho Libraries & Summit member libraries (i.e., most academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest)
  • Moscow students only: if a resource is not at U of, I but at a Summit member library, sign in & scroll to "Get it from other locations"
  • Boise students should submit an interlibrary loan request for titles not available at a UI library
• WorldCat will identify resources at hundreds of libraries around the world that can often be requested via interlibrary loan

• Law reviews/journals dedicated to comparative law, e.g. Chicago-Kent Journal of International & Comparative Law, Journal of Civil Law Studies, Journal of Comparative Urban Law & Policy, UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, & Comparative Law, University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review) 
  • Can be searched for through Westlaw/Lexis, library catalog, LegalTrac 
  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (accessible via Hein Online)
• Hein Online International Resources, e.g., International & Non-U.S. Law Journals - Journals on the subject of international law & journals published outside the U.S. 

Accessible via Hein Online, Multinational Sources Compared: A Subject & Jurisdiction Index, directs researchers to sources that compare multiple jurisdictions on focused subjects.

Quality varies but there are a number of free, online, general purpose translators, e.g.:

• Google Translate
• DeepL
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Reverso
• Bing Translator

While not a silver bullet, accuracy can be enhanced by running passages/files through multiple translators & comparing results. 

Unfortunately, there is no free, online translator that's generally accepted to be good for legal terminology.