About This Site and Its Sources
This is an independent international and comparative legal research publication. Country guides explain where each country publishes its law and how to check the text. Connected research guides introduce United States and Texas sources, civil law, tort law and personal injury research. They help readers frame a question and find sources, not decide a case. Reading costs nothing, no account is needed, and no part of it is sold.
This site is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a continuation of any other publication of that name, it is not a successor to one, and it does not provide legal advice.
The Name and the Domain
Brill publishes a subscription reference work carrying the same name as this domain, and it belongs entirely to somebody else: a different work, a different publisher, terms of its own. Nothing here claims any part of it. The publisher's own page for it is Foreign Law Guide, Brill, and the comparative law page sets out what a day of access costs.
The domain is why the two are easy to confuse. For about a decade it carried that work's own standalone website. The registration lapsed, the domain went to auction, and the present operator bought it there. What changed hands was the address and nothing beside it: no name, no rights in the earlier work, no files. None of the old pages survive on this server, and no sentence here came from them.
That is why a handful of old filenames still resolve. University law library guides go on pointing at them, and a reader following a citation checked years ago is better served by a page that explains itself than by a dead end.
If You Arrived Expecting a Login
Two of those old addresses were a subscriber login and a visitor statistics page, and both now come here. If that is how you arrived: there is nothing to sign into. No subscription is sold on this domain, no accounts exist, and no page is behind a password. Everything published here is open from the moment it goes up.
Method, and Its Limits
The country records and older sourced pages use a review stamp. The newer research guides use a separate evidence packet and may cite clearly labeled secondary explanations alongside official sources. Their source-check dates record when those sources were fetched, not a legal review or a promise that the law is current. The two methods and their limits are explained in How These Pages Are Reviewed. The contact page explains how to report an error.
Nothing on this site is legal advice, and none of it substitutes for a lawyer admitted where your question arises. A finding aid can tell you which text to read and where the state itself put it. It cannot tell you what that text means for your situation.