International Law Reports (ILR) is one of the few sources that contains both cases from international tribunals and relevant domestic case law from foreign jurisdictions in English translation. The Library has earlier ILR volumes 4 through 46 (1973) and continues to receive the latest ILR volumes in print (2005 to current). 10th Floor - KZ199.I58.
Note that case law is not primary authority in civil law countries. Cases are not reported as in common law jurisdictions. Thus, they may be difficult to locate and are almost never available in English. However, more and more courts in other countries now have websites where it may be possible to find some case law in the vernacular, i.e., Germany.
The World Legal Information Institute (WLII) is an excellent, free website that provides links to the legislation and courts of other countries. Another excellent tool for researching case law from other countries is a subscription website, the Foreign Law Guide, as discussed under the Foreign Law Codes tab.
Some websites provide access to translations of decisions from foreign tribunals on selected subjects. The Institute for Transnational Law website at the University of Texas at Austin provides access to French, German, Austrian, and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract, and tort law.
