Country Index

This is the plain version of the same coverage. Every jurisdiction this guide has researched, listed once, in strict alphabetical order by name. No legal tradition beside the entry, no gazette named under it, nothing between the name and the link.

That is deliberate, and it is a judgement about who arrives here. Almost everyone reaching this page has already settled on the country before they got here. The name came from a citation in a footnote, from another library's research guide, or from simply knowing which country the question is about. What they want is the shortest route from that name to the page this guide has built for it. A page that sorts, explains, or adds context first is standing in the way.

The other index makes the opposite trade. Use the grouped index when the jurisdiction is still in question: when several are in play, or when the shape of the research ahead matters before committing to one. There the same coverage is sorted by legal tradition, and each entry carries the name of the gazette that publishes that country's law, read off a sourced fact. That is the context this page leaves out on purpose.

Both indexes point at the same set of records, so neither is more complete than the other. Each of those pages opens with a fact block giving the legal family, the official gazette, the constitution in force and the language of the authoritative text, each traced to a document that was actually read, or written as unsettled where no document could settle it, followed by the prose that explains how that country's publishing actually works. The date at the foot of each is the day its facts were last put back against those documents.

• Argentina
• Austria
• Brazil
• China
• France
• Germany
• India
• Italy
• Japan
• Libya
• Madagascar
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• Pakistan
• Poland
• Romania
• South Korea
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Tuvalu

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