LibGuides: Asian Law Guide (South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia): Regional Resources

South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia

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Regional Information

CIA World Factbook
Information about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy of individual Asian countries
Research Guide on the Trading Systems in the Asian-Pacific Region: APEC, ASEAN and their Members
open access from Globalex

Regional Organisations

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Brunei Darussalam then joined on 7 January 1984, Viet Nam on 28 July 1995, Lao PDR and Myanmar on 23 July 1997, and Cambodia on 30 April 1999, making up what is today the ten Member States of ASEAN.

APEC

The primary economic forum supporting sustainable economic growth and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific Region.

Latest ASEAN Legal News

Legal news feed from the Global Legal Monitor at the Library of Congress.

Overview

Use the following resources to find out about different legal systems, or of a particular country:

Globalex
(Open access) Excellent and up to date overviews of the legal systems of individual countries, guides to legal research and links to primary and secondary material. Browse by country or search using keywords.
International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Constitutional Law
(UniMelb access) A country-by-country survey of constitutional law throughout the world, including: political system, historical background, sources of constitutional law, form of government, component states and decentralized authorities, citizenship, and specific problems.
Juriglobe World Legal Systems
(Open access) Provides maps showing geographic distribution of Member States of significant international organisations, and conventions.
Introduction to Foreign Legal Systems, by Richard A Danner and Marie-Louise H Bernal (eds)
KB 100 INTR
LLRX Foreign and Comparative Law by Country
(Open access)

Foreign Law Guide (Brill)
The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) is an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources in one virtual destination. Broad in content and global in scope, the FLG is an indispensable resource for comparative law research and a fundamental tool for developing a foreign and comparative law collection. Approximately 190 jurisdictions are systemically covered and updated by a global team of experts.

Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations (World Bank)
(Open access) The Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. Search by country or by topic.
Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia
(UniMelb access)
Library of Congress Country Studies
(Open access) Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political and national security systems of countries.
Far East and Australasia - Europa World Plus
(UniMelb access) Offers detailed commentary on events in the region, in both their historical and contemporary context. Also includes comparative statistics between countries.