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- 1942 Protocol of Rio de Janeiro
- A contractual choice of German law for an American-German distributorship agreement
- A divorce by mutual consent in the People's Republic of China
- A series on war crimes in general, the Geneva Conventions 1949, the Additional Protocols 1977 and internal armed conflicts, Publication no. 2, The Geneva Conventions 1949, Additional Protocols 1977 and internal armed conflicts
- Abduction of a Colombian child by a parent in the United States
- Abortion and sex selection in European countries
- Abortion in Iran
- Abortion laws and policies in 19 jurisdictions
- Abortion legislation : Bosnia Herzegovina, Russia, Ukraine
- Absentee voting in Asian countries
- Absinthe and the law
- Abuse of patents in Canada
- Access to banking and telephone records
- Acquisition of Israeli citizenship by Christians
- Actions by one state against another for transboundary pollution : Belgium, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, Japan, Scandinavia, Spain
- Adoption and guardianship under the laws of Iran
- Adoption in Albania
- Adoption in Guatemala
- Adoption in Guatemala
- Adoption in Norway
- Adoption in the Central African Republic
- Adoption in the Dominican Republic
- Adoption in the Philippines
- Adoption law in Vietnam
- Adoption law in the Dominican Republic
- Adoption law of Burkina Faso
- Adoption law of Somalia
- Adoption laws of Ethiopia
- Adoption of Russian children by foreign couples
- Adoption of Russian children with severe illnesses by foreign couples
- Adoption of children by foreigners : Republic of Georgia, Romania, Ukraine
- Adoption under Burkina Faso law
- Adoption under Greek law
- Adoption under Iranian law
- Adoption under the laws of Madagascar
- Adoption under the laws of Somalia
- Adverse effects of pharmaceuticals abroad
- Advertising of alcoholic beverages : France, Germany, United Kingdom
- Aerial incident of July 3, 1988 (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America)
- Affirmative action - labor law
- Afghanistan : country study
- Afghanistan : meeting of bride and groom before marriage
- Afghanistan: legality of multiple marriages of Afghan citizens in Pakistan
- Afghanistan: the rights of women in Islam
- Afghanistan: women and the law
- Africa : intellectual property issues : Malawi, Nigeria. Tanzania
- Agency discretion and judicial review
- Airline pilots carrying firearms
- Airport noise regulations
- Aliens smuggling laws: Honduras
- Amendment of building codes in response to September 11, 2001 : England and Wales, Singapore, Thailand
- Amendments to Russian legislation on cultural property
- An overview of the copyright laws in the GCC countries: Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
- An overview of the judicial system of Zaire
- Analysis of Rwandan law
- Annual mining fees - hard rock mining
- Anti-conversion and anti-blasphemy laws
- Anti-trafficking legislation
- Antidumping and countervailing duties
- Apostasy in Kuwait
- Appeal of acquittals in criminal cases : France, Italy
- Application of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Red Cross Conventions : France, Germany, United Kingdom
- Application of domestic labor laws to companies with overseas operations
- Application to Iran of the reciprocity provision of the U.S. Public Vessels Act
- Apportionment methods for national legislatures
- Approval of medical devices
- Argentina : constitutional provisions on the president
- Argentina : judicial system
- Argentina: amnesty laws: procedural aspects
- Argentina: assessment and collection of taxes
- Argentina: campaign financing
- Argentina: domestic laws and regulations implementing the Hague Convention
- Argentina: fiscal relationship between the central government and the provinces
- Argentina: human cloning
- Argentina: immigration exclusion decisions
- Argentina: restrictions on the importation and sale of ephedrine and pseudo ephedrine
- Argentina: taxation system
- Armenia : requirements to practice law
- Armenia: negotiations regarding an agreement with Azerbaijan
- Arrest and police custody : detainees' rights report : France, England & Wales
- Asbestos ban
- Asbestos ban : Argentina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Japan, Slovak Republic, and Spain
- Asbestos ban : Australia, Belgium, France, Honduras, Luxembourg, South Africa, and Sweden
- Assisted reproductive technologies: Australia (New South Wales), Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, United Kingdom
- Asylum : Canada · United Kingdom
- Asylum laws : Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom
- Australia : Kyoto Protocol
- Australia : citizenship
- Australia : crime of aggression
- Australia : follow-on biologics
- Australia : reciprocal visa arrangement with the United States
- Australia : sanctions on Iran, North Korea, and Syria
- Australia : storage of assault weapons and ammunition
- Australia : summary of major legislation on rule of law; the environment, workers' rights, rights of women
- Australia : visas for foreign students
- Australia: Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation In Respect of Intercountry Adoption
- Australia: detention of asylum seekers
- Australia: mandatory deposit requirements
- Australia: regulation of human cloning
- Australia: summary of major legislation on workers' rights
- Australia: television broadcasting codes of practice
- Austria : compulsory voting
- Austria : espionage law
- Austria : the recognition of religious communities
- Austria: summary of a decision of the Austrian Constitutional Court relating to the Jehovah's Witnesses
- Austrian asylum law
- Authority to appoint and remove commanding officers : France, United Kingdom
- Baby-selling in Costa Rica
- Bahrain: women and the judiciary
- Baja California, Mexico: parentage, filiation, and paternity laws
- Balanced budget provisions in the constitutions of selected jurisdictions
- Ballot initiative procedures
- Banking secrecy in Kuwait
- Basic information on the Arab boycott of Israel
- Belarus : international child custody issues
- Belarus : ownership restrictions for foreigners
- Belgium : shipping of goods by sea
- Belgium: drugs regulations
- Belgium: organ donation law
- Belgium: war crimes-law of universal jurisdiction
- Bhutan : adoption
- Bibliography of resources relating to constitutional law
- Bilateral agreement between France and Lebanon on family matters
- Biodegradable household items and their labeling in select countries
- Birth as a criterion for citizenship in various countries
- Birth requirements for presidents : Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom, Argentina, People's Republic of China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panam,̀ Republic of Korea, South Africa, Turkey, Taiwan
- Birthright citizenship
- Birthright citizenship
- Birthright citizenship : France, Germany, United Kingdom
- Birthright citizenship: France and New Zealand
- Blood alcohol content regulations in selected Asian countries
- Bolivia : recognition of common law marriage
- Bolivia : violations of domestic labor law standards
- Bosnia and Herzegovina : draft amendments to the constitution
- Brazil : banking, judiciary, budget/spending legislation and institutional reforms
- Brazil : extradition of nationals
- Brazil : extradition procedures
- Brazil : fauna legislation
- Brazil : laws governing forced labor
- Brazil : legal status of native Brazilian Indians
- Brazil : marriage and stable union
- Brazil : right to life of indigenous children
- Brazil: crime of aggression
- Brazil: legal research guide: the judicial branch
- Breast-feeding and the workplace--laws of selected foreign nations
- Britain : conditional discharge orders in bankruptcy law
- British initiatives on computers' millennium problem
- Burma: government & legal system
- Business names : registering trademarks and company names in selected jurisdictions
- Cambodia: adoption procedures
- Campaign finance systems : Canada and the United Kingdom
- Campaign financing in various foreign countries : comparative summary and analysis
- Campaign financing of national elections in selected foreign countries
- Campaign time in national elections abroad : legal limits
- Campeche, Mexico: parentage, filiation, and paternity laws
- Canada : Canadian policy respecting Haitian refugees
- Canada : admission of agricultural workers
- Canada : approving trade agreements
- Canada : constitutionality of chapter 19 of NAFTA
- Canada : disclosure of oil royalty payments by listed companies
- Canada : dual citizenship & fingerprinting of citizens
- Canada : fingerprinting at the border
- Canada : food labeling legislation
- Canada : immigrant investor program
- Canada : immigration and refugee policies
- Canada : immigration and refugee policies
- Canada : immigration offenses
- Canada : landed immigrant status
- Canada : lawyer-client privilege under Canadian money laundering legislation
- Canada : motor vehicle insurance and registration requirements for United States military personnel
- Canada : patents for agricultural chemicals
- Canada : personal exemptions for travelers
- Canada : prescription drug purchases
- Canada : product liability suits
- Canada : public participation in environmental decision-making
- Canada : recent fishing disputes, restrictions on trade, and trade with Cuba
- Canada : restrictions on foreign ownership of land
- Canada : sex tourism law
- Canada : the immigration points system
- Canada : tribal marriages under the law
- Canada : withholding tax on United States Individual Retirement Accounts
- Canada's constitutional conference
- Canada-United States: collective bargaining in the public sector
- Canada: INTERPOL red notices
- Canada: common law marriages
- Canada: excludable aliens : conviction for robbery abroad
- Canada: human cloning
- Canada: legitimation in Quebec
- Canada: points-based immigration system
- Canada: pumping water from manholes
- Canada: same-sex marriages : developing issues
- Canadian end-use certificates for wheat imports
- Canadian migrant worker policy
- Canadian reactions to the softwood lumber agreement
- Canadian views on the Protocol to the Migratory Birds Convention
- Caning as punishment for crimes
- Capital punishment in Western Hemisphere countries
- Capital transactions
- Carbon emissions legislation
- Carbon sequestration: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, European Union, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Spain
- Case concerning sovereignty over certain frontier land : (Belgium v. the Netherlands, 1957-1959)
- Case concerning the Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Ltd. (Belgium v. Spain, 1958-1961)
- Case concerning the aerial incident of July 27, 1955 (United Kingdom v. Bulgaria, 1957-1959)
- Case concerning the aerial incident of September 4th, 1954 (U.S.A. v. U.S.S.R., 1958)
- Case concerning the arbitral award made by the King of Spain on 23 December 1906 (Honduras v. Nicaragua, 1959-1960)
- Cash for clunkers program : Japan, South Korea
- Casino gambling on vessels in Canada
- Cayman Islands : labor protection laws
- Certain questions on citizenship in selected countries : Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Yugoslavia
- Chiapas, Mexico: parentage, filiation, and paternity laws
- Chihuahua, Mexico: parentage, filiation, and paternity laws
- Child abuse and neglect in Poland
- Child care provisions in prisons
- Child labor laws : France, Great Britain, Germany
- Child protection law and policy
- Child-parent privilege in criminal proceedings
- Children born out of wedlock in Colombia
- Children's online privacy and data protection in selected European countries
- Chile : exhaustion of domestic remedies in Chilean law for victims of torture
- Chile : intellectual property issues
- Chile : overview of taxation.
- Chile : plants and pharmaceutical patents
- Chile: Pinochet : latest developments in prosecutions for human rights crimes
- Chile: Pinochet prosecutions for human rights violations : latest developments
- Chile: mining rights
- Chile: sovereign debt
- China : adoption
- China : discipline inspection commissions : their role in prosecution of crimes and their merger with administrative supervision organs
- China's special economic zones
- China: early marriage and de facto marriage
- China: impeachment
- China: mining law
- China: private property rights
- China: wrongful death and personal injury damages
- Church-state relationships in selected countries : state sponsored religion
- Cigarette labelling laws in Canada
- Citations for the establishment of foreign intelligence agencies in select countries : Bulgaria, People's Republic of China, France, Greece, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Nicaragua, Switzerland, USSR
- Citizenship : Angola
- Citizenship by descent in the Republic of Ireland
- Citizenship law of Guinea
- Citizenship laws of Togo and Niger
- Citizenship of adopted foreign children : China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden
- Citizenship requirements : Angola, Zambia
- Citizenship rules of selected countries : a worldwide reference survey
- Citizenship through international adoption
- Civic education models
- Civic space legal framework : Brazil, Finland, Morocco, Tunisia
- Civil and customary marriages in Ghana in the period 1975-1993
- Civil liability and moral damages compensation in Colombia
- Civil liability for military orders
- Claims arising out of collisions of vessels under Greek law
- Classes of immigrants under the Canadian Immigration Act
- Cloning of humans : Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Russian Federation, South Africa, Sweden, Thailand
- Cloning: Australia, People's Republic of China, European Union, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway, Spain, United Kingdom
- Colima, Mexico: parentage, filiation, and paternity laws
- Colombia : Law on Justice and Peace
- Colombia : adoption law
- Colombia : court system
- Colombia : euthanasia and the May 1997 decision by the constitutional court
- Colombia : extradition law and process
- Colombia : foreign investment in oil and gas sectors
- Colombia : investigatory authority of Fiscalia, Contraloria and Procuraduria de la Nacion
- Colombia : land title of black communities
- Colombia : legal framework governing prostitution
- Colombia : legitimation of children
- Colombia : letters rogatory: language requirements
- Colombia : recognition of children
- Colombia : the criminal justice system and the role of the Fiscalia
- Colombia: United States observations on the amnesty bill
- Colombia: dual nationality
- Colombia: law on justice and peace
- Colombia: laws against usury
- Colombia: legislative process and veto powers of the president
- Colombia: proposed amnesty program for members of illegal armed groups
- Colombia: recent labor law reforms
- Colombia: validity of marriage and divorce
- Comments to the draft law on settlement of industrial disputes in Poland
- Commission E in the German drug approval process: briefing notes
- Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and the defendant's right to review classified evidence : Australia, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan. Lebanon, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Common and criminal law in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Common law marriage and alimony in Brazil
- Common law marriages in Quebec
- Common-law marriage in British Columbia
- Common-law marriage in Canada's common-law provinces
- Common-law marriage in Peru
- Common-law marriage in Peru
- Common-law marriage in Zacatecas, Mexico
- Common-law marriages and non-marital partnerships in Germany
- Comparative analysis : national laws protecting people with disabilities in selected foreign countries
- Comparative analysis: legitimation in Gambia and Thailand
- Comparative summary : flag desecration under the laws of selected foreign nations
- Comparative summary: protecting people with disabilities : national laws in selected foreign countries
- Comparing laws for better lawmaking : serving the comparative legal research needs of the federal government
- Compensation for victims of terrorism : Israel, United Kingdom
- Compensation of victims of terrorism in France
- Compliance of Russian religious legislation with the international human rights standards
- Compulsory licensing of patented medicines
- Compulsory voting
- Compulsory voting : Australia, Belgium, Cyprus, Egypt, Luxembourg, Singapore, Switzerland, Uruguay
- Computer security and protection of computer information
- Computer security and protection of computer information : a survey of selected foreign legislative approaches
- Congo : birth records and adoption
- Congressional access to national security information : precedents from the Washington Administration
- Constitutional issues in the ratification of the International Criminal Court Statute: Chile
- Constitutional provisions on gender equality
- Consumer notification of product recalls
- Continuity of legislative activities during emergency situations in selected countries
- Control and distribution of water resources among Israel and Arab states in the Middle East
- Cooperation of providers of internet-based communications services with government surveillance
- Copyright status of laws and regulations in 21 foreign countries
- Core labor standards: Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Jordan, Malaysia, Singapore
- Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
- Corporate income tax rates in selected "tax havens"
- Corporate residency for tax purposes
- Costa Rica : civil status of children
- Costa Rica: immigration and drug laws
- Costa Rican law on the extradition of its own nationals
- Costs in civil litigation : Australia, Canada, England and Wales
- Council of Europe : European Court of Human Rights and the Parot Doctrine
- Counterfeit (copycat) goods under international law and the laws of selected foreign nations
- Counterterrorism legislation in selected countries
- Countries of the former Soviet Union : laws on psychiatric treatment
- Countries revising their constitutions
- Countries with specific constitutional provisions on equality of men and women and/or non discrimination
- Country of origin labeling laws - selected nations
- Country of origin labeling of agricultural products
- Country reentry requirements : Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Israel, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States
- Country reentry requirements : Bangladesh, European Union, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia
- Court structure of Benin
- Creating commercial connections : trade laws of Latin America - Argentina
- Creating commercial connections : trade laws of Latin America - Brazil
- Creation of a Bible institute in Guatemala
- Crime victims' rights under the laws of certain foreign nations
- Criminal and civil sanctions for abuses of the United Nations Oil-for-Food program in Iraq
- Criminal offenses by nationals committed abroad
- Criminal records and certificates of conduct in the Netherlands
- Criminalization of harassment and exploitation by electronic communication
- Criminalization of illegal entry around the world
- Criteria of interpretation of the law on foreign investment as clarified in the Regulation
- Cuba: possible violations of public international law
- Current labor violations : Bolivia, Peru
- Customary divorce in Nigeria
- Cyprus : human rights violations in the northern part of Cyprus as determined by the European Court of Human Rights
- Cyprus: Greek Cypriot rejection of the Annan Plan; Turkish violations of international treaties
- Czech Republic : restitution and rehabilitation act
- Czech Republic: administrative process for the imposition of civil sanctions
- Czech Republic: elections to the Senate
- Czechoslovakia : antitrust law
- Côte d'Ivoire: business & tax laws relating to foreign investment (agriculture)
- Damages under French law for a specific case of death incurred in an airplane crash
- Data retention laws and internet service providers
- De facto unions under Colombian law
- Decision C-239/97 : Constitutional Court of Colombia on constitutionality of Art. 326 of the Criminal Code of May 20, 1997
- Declaration of nullity of marriage in the Philippines
- Deduction of charitable contributions in developing countries
- Defense procurement issues
- Definition of derivatives : Australia, China, European Union, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Definition of derivatives : Germany, New Zealand
- Definition of plastic bags under the new environmental tax : Belgium, Denmark, Ireland
- Denmark : income taxation
- Denmark: taxation of gasoline
- Deportation laws of Mexico
- Depreciation schedules for tax purposes
- Destruction of the Maine (1898)
- Detention of terrorism suspects : Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Kenya, Philippines, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Detention of terrorism suspects : France, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
- Development of Israeli law over the past half-century
- Digital legal deposit in selected jurisdictions
- Disaster relief: Canada, Germany, Great Britain, India, Japan
- Disclosure of beneficial ownership in selected countries
- Discovery and perjury under Brazilian law
- Dispute over the sovereignty of Imia
- Divorce in Guinea : procedure and proof
- Divorce in the Middle East : women's rights
- Divorce law in Zambia
- Divorce under Iranian law
- Divorce, maintenance and child support laws in Australia, Canada, England and New Zealand
- Djibouti : marriage & citizenship
- Domestic constraints on intercountry adoption : practice in some Balkan nations
- Domestic manufacture requirements for ships engaging in domestic transport
- Dominican Republic : law of extradition
- Dominican Republic: law governing paternity and filiation
- Dominican Republic: penalties for child abuse
- Driver's licenses : laws and regulations
- Dual nationality
- Dual nationality law
- Due process rights of prisoners of war and those unclassified under the Geneva Convention: Israel, United Kingdom
- Durango, Mexico: parentage, filiation, and paternity laws
- Duration of plant breeders' rights
- Earliest regulation of lead paints in Germany, Britain, and Japan
- Economic reform in Poland
- Ecuador : pending bills on communications and territorial organization
- Ecuador: citizenship, asylum, and the 2008 constitution : selected issues
- Ecuador: illegal association under criminal law
- Ecuador: law on de facto unions
- Egypt : charges against former president Mubarak and potential legal ramifications--status update
- Egypt : legal framework for arbitration
- Egypt and Saudi Arabia : inheritance laws applicable to women
- Egypt, pending charges against Mohammed Morsi
- Egypt: law protecting coral reefs
- El Salvador: agrarian debt relief legislation
- Election authorities in selected countries
- Election law : selected issues : Australia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan
- Election laws in the CSCE countries : information resources
- Election laws of Turkey
- Eligibility to vote in referendums on self-determination
- Embargo on the sale of weapons to China
- Emergency planning laws and policy : Canada, France, Germany, Israel, United Kingdom
- Employment leave mandates
- Enforcement of a U.S. judgment in Israel
- Enforcement of ethical standards for members of European legislative bodies
- Enforcement of mine safety regulations
- Enforcing United States judgments in Barbados
- England & Wales : oaths of witnesses testifying before Parliament prior to 1759
- England and Wales : Galloway and criminal offences related to oil allocations
- England and Wales : data protection
- England and Wales : legal standards for securing impartial jury trials
- England and Wales : water laws
- England and Wales: costs in civil litigation
- England and Wales: elections law : fraudulent postal votes
- England and Wales: the laws on treasures
- England, Wales and Northern Ireland : female genital mutilation
- Entry and residence conditions for foreign journalists : Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Republic of Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Republic of San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Environmental "take-back" legislation in the European Union and in select member states
- Environmental labeling in Canada, Germany, and Japan
- Environmental law in Chile
- Environmental requirements to obtain offshore drilling licenses
- Environmentally friendly automobile incentive programs
- Equatorial Guinea : minimum wages set by the government
- Equatorial Guinea: fishing agreement
- Eritrea: marriage and divorce laws
- Espousal of private claims in international law
- Estonia : a country law study
- Estonia : basis of tax legislation
- Estonia : taxation system and implementation of flat income tax
- Ethiopia : religious marriage
- Ethiopia: federal paternity and legitimation laws