Foreign Legal Research: Citing Foreign Legal Sources

For more than eighty years, The Bluebook has provided authoritative guidance to legal citation for American students, professionals, and scholars. Wire-bound to lie flat and fully indexed.

Created by the Journal of International Law and Politics at New York University, the Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations is the most comprehensive source for international citations rules. Including 45 country citation systems, as well as citation rules for international organizations, tribunals, and treaties, the updated Second Edition offers updated and expanded coverage. The only reference that focuses entirely on international citation, Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citation, Second Edition, features: manageable length, convenient Wire-O binding, and easy-to-use page format logical three-part organization: Country Citation Guides Citation Guides for International Organizations Citation Guides for International and Regional Tribunals a Country Profile for each listing followed by its Citation Guide examples that reflect acceptable variability of citation in practice English translations of foreign words in parentheses for ease of use citation instructions that contain both source content and formatting instructions references to useful Internet material New to the Second Edition: coverage expanded to include Singapore coverage of Sharia Law, providing an explanation of Sharia Law, sources of Sharia Law, the various schools of Sharia Law, and a list of countries that use Sharia Law Complementing the ALWD Citation Manual and the Aspen Handbook for Legal Writers as an indispensable reference tool in law school, the Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations, Second Edition, constitutes an important contribution to legal research and writing.

There are two golden rules for the citation of legal authorities. One is consistency. The other is consideration for the reader. Legal writing is more persuasive when the author refers to legal materials in a clear, consistent and familiar way. The Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) helps authors to achieve consistency in citing cases, legislation and secondary sources. And it helps authors to make life easier for their readers.OSCOLA is widely used by law schools and legal publishers both in the United Kingdom and abroad. This latest revision of OSCOLA (the fourth edition) is the first to be published in hard copy, and provides more detailed coverage of both primary and secondary legal sources.

This practical book is a bilingual and bijuridical guide to citation of legal materials. Now in its 8th edition, the Guide provides a straightforward, uniform approach to citation of government documents, case law, legislation, periodicals, monographs and other secondary materials across all jurisdictions. This Guide has been officially adopted by various courts and major law reviews across Canada, establishing itself as an important tool for legal research and writing.