In the past week,  the Law Library of Congress released a Foreign Law Web Archive, which collects and Official Gazettes and judicial websites from, as of now, 14 foreign jurisdictions.

An official Gazette is a government publication that generally contains the first version of the text of legislation, regulations, rules, legal notices, treaties, and court cases for foreign countries. As the LOC notes on its site, many jurisdictions are ceasing to publish their Gazettes in print. Furthermore, access to the government websites that host these official Gazettes is sometimes tenuous. For these reasons, preserving these valuable resources in one place is a great boon for researchers.

Keep an eye out for the Law Library of Congress to add more jurisdictions and more resources to its archive!

Submitted by Sunil Rao, on October 31, 2018

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