General web sites typically provide information and further web references to comparative, international, and foreign law.  They should be your starting point since their usefulness often exceeds that of the more specific sites listed as links.

American Society of International Law Research Tools

University of Chicago Law School Library Lyo's Work-in-Progress

COPAC     Search the largest university library catalogs in the United Kingdom and Ireland by author, title, subject, or for periodicals.

Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute

Harvard University Hollis Catalog     Fast, efficient search of the largest university catalog (14 million books, journals, and documents) in the United States by author, title, subject, serial, or by keyword, including in Asian characters.

Hieros Gamos     Search 50,000 URLs by subject on law and government worldwide.  Contains sections on government materials, by country, and on lawyers, law firms, legal education, and areas of practice from a global perspective.

Indiana University School of Law Library WWW Virtual Law Library

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library Information Resources     Find primary and secondary legal materials for most of the world's countries organized by country or by subject.  There is also a section on international organizations.

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog     Search the largest German library catalogs (60 million entries) by author, title, subject, or for periodicals.  Links to the largest European online catalogs.

Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online     Find information about most of the world's national legal systems as well as primary legal materials organized by country.  There is also a division for comparative and international law.  This is a project of the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN).

Law Library Resource Xchange International and Foreign Law     Country guides and topical guides.

Library of Congress Catalog     Search the Library of Congress Catalog or the catalogs of hundreds of institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland by author, title, subject, or ISBN.

Washburn University School of Law Library Foreign and International Law Web     Searchable by country or subject.

Willamette University College of Law Library Foreign and International Law

World Legal Information Institute Catalog and Websearch     Over 270 databases from 20 countries include case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials.  The WorldLII Catalog provides links to over 15,000 law-related web sites, many of which are full text searchable, from every country in the world.
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