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Foreign law: Asia & Pacific

Asia & Pacific Law

This guide contains regional and selected country specific resources for Asia, South-East Asia and the Pacific region.

Find out more about the legal systems and researching laws at GlobaLex Foreign Legal Research.

The Law Library has historical print holdings of primary sources for a range of Pacific countries. See the individual country tabs below.

Use PacLII for more current online resources.

See our separate page on this guide for China & Hong Kong.

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Key databases

Asian Legal Information Institute
Free access to cases and legislation
CCH IntelliConnect
Provides online access to selected CCH commentaries and primary sources for Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
CLJ Law
Databases covering the Malaysian legal system, including cases, articles, practice notes, forms, legislation and words and phrases.
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
Free access to cases and legislation
Westlaw China
Database contains comprehensive laws and regulations, cases from the Supreme Court and provincial, local, and special courts, and select model contracts and legal journals from the People's Republic of China.

Region-wide resources

Law and justice in a globalized world: proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016 : topics in law and justice
ISBN: 1351840460
Publication Date: 2016

Asian Collections Library guide (Monash University Library)
Find specialist collections, databases and websites of Asian-language materials with a focus on Southeast Asia and East Asia.
Asian Law Online (Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne)
Online bibliographic database of materials relating to Asian legal studies.
University of the South Pacific, Emalus Campus Library
Search online documents and collections.

Country resources

Cases & Legislation

Legislation

Antigua and Barbuda Legislation Index (2015) (print)

Featured Books

The Rule of Law in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh by Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky

Cases

Legislation

Cases

Legislation & Cases

Legislation

Cayman Islands Legislation index (print)

Cases

Cook Island Judgments (1976 - 1995) (print)

Parliamentary Debates and Papers

Cook Islands Parliamentary Debates, Hansard (1991-1994 incomplete) (print)

Legislation

Dominica Legislation Index (print)

Legislation

Fiji Laws (Fiji Government Online portal)

Cases

Gazettes

Legislation

Guam Legislature (1st legislature to current)
Public laws, bills and resolutions, and committee reports.

Featured Books

Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments by Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan

Databases

Manupatra : India law legal database This link opens in a new window
Indian primary and secondary material

Legal encyclopaedia

Halsbury's laws of India v. 1 (1999) to v. 45 (2011) (print)

Legislation

Cases

Historical sources

Legislation

Cases

Supreme Court (Mahkamah Agung) Database

Treaties

Parliamentary Debates and Papers

Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica (1811-1829) online

Legislation

Japanese Law Translation (Japanese Ministry of Justice)

Cases

Legislation

Korea - Statutes of the republic of Korea

Databases

Featured books

Legislation

Malaysia - Laws of Malaysia (Attorney-General's Chambers)

Cases

Treaties

Collection of Treaties and other Documents affecting the States of Malaysia, 1761-1963 (print)

Cases

Databases

RONLAW: Nauru's online legal database

Cases

Gazettes

Nauru Government Gazette (1990-1991, 1999-2000) (print)

Cases

Gazettes

Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Register v. 15, nos. 6 to 9 (1994) to v. 18, no. 5 (1996) (print)

Cases

Cases

Courts of the Republic of Palau interim reporter v. 3 (1999) to v. 8 (1999) (print)

Research Guides

Papua New Guinea Law - Legal Research Guide (Melbourne University)

Legislation

Acts of the independent State of Papua New Guinea (1974 to 2000) (print)

Gazettes

Parliamentary Debates and Papers

Papua New Guinea Parliamentary Debates (2012-current) online

Cases

Philippine law collection (Hein Online)

Legislation

Saint Christopher and Nevis legislation index (print)

Legislation

Saint Lucia legislation index (print)

Legislation

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines legislation index (print)

Gazettes

Western Samoa Gazette (1995 to 2001) (print)

Databases

eLitigation

Legislation

Singapore Statutes Online

Cases

Singapore Law Reports (1965 - present)

Gazettes

Solomon Islands Gazette Supplement (1985-1993) (print)

Legislation

Acts of Sri Lanka (1989 - 2017 incomplete) (print)

Legislation

Gazettes

Databases

Emalus Library - Online Resources (Vanuatu - University of the South Pacific)

Legislation

Guide to Law Online: Vietnam (Law Library of Congress)