East Asian Law Quick Reference

English translations of statutes for many countries, including China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan (Republic of China)

An exhaustive list of subscription databases provided by UW Libraries.
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Working papers on legal systems of East Asia. Asian Law eJournal is part of SSRN, the Social Sciences Research Network. Edited by former UW Law School faculty Veronica Taylor and Don Clarke

References western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia. 1971 to present.

Worldwide countries legal research guides, including East Asia. Index page

Information about East Asia and about the East Asian Library at the University of Washington

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 2,982,280 theses and dissertations.

Bielefeld University in Germany provides this open access database of a wide range of resources, many in European languages.

References western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia. 1971 to present.

The World Bank eLibrary is a subscription-based website designed to help researchers and libraries browse, find, and use World Bank publications and top data from World Development Indicators as quickly and easily as possible. The World Bank eLibrary is built on a publishing platform that offers a wider variety of features, enhanced functionality, and services for subscribers. These include as recent chapters in PDF and full text online; linked references; content alerts; personal accounts for saving content and search results for future use; MARC records; and indexing in library services for easier discovery.

Search the UW Libraries catalog for E-journals

Lists of online law journals for East Asian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean law.

Working papers on legal systems of East Asia. Asian Law eJournal is part of SSRN, the Social Sciences Research Network. Edited by former UW Law School faculty Veronica Taylor and Don Clarke

University of California Berkeley School of Law

Brill Academic Publishers

University of Hawaii School of Law

The University of Melbourne

Columbia University Law School

University of Pennsylvania Law School

University of Washington School of Law

UCLA School of Law

Yale University’s guide to MLA, Chicago, and APA citation styles for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean sources.