LibGuides: Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: New Zealand

Constitutional Law

Oxford Constitutional Law
Oxford Constitutions of the World contains fully-translated English-language versions of all of the world's constitutions, accompanied by individual commentaries and supplementary materials.

Jurisdiction: Global
World Constitutions Illustrated
This library enables legal scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and many more. It also includes constitutional periodicals, thousands classic books, other related works such as the World Fact Book, links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references.

Jurisdiction: Global

New Zealand Legislation - Parliamentary Counsel Office
Includes official current consolidations of New Zealand Acts and secondary legislation. Site also includes point-in-time versions dating back to 2007.
New Zealand Acts as Enacted - NZLII
Coverage: 1841-2007
New Zealand Regulations as Made - NZLII
Coverage: 1936-2007

New Zealand Parliament
From the Bills (proposed laws) collection, researchers can access the text of each bill, hansard records (parliamentary debates), select committee reports, and written evidence submitted to the select committee relating to the bill.
Coverage: mid 1990s - present.
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
Parliamentary website provides access to the legislative debates from 1854 to present.
Coverage: 1854 - present.
New Zealand Historical Bills - NZLII
NZLII collection contains pdfs of the historical bills. For more recent bills, see the New Zealand Parliament website.
Coverage: 1854 - 2008.

Lexis+, International tab, New Zealand
Butterworths Current Law; and cases, including New Zealand Law Reports, Administrative Reports, District Court Reports, Family Law Reports, and Resource Management Appeals. See Source Information notes for coverage.
New Zealand LII
Includes court and tribunals decisions, law journals and law reform reports, legislation as enacted, regulations as made, and historical bills.

New Zealand Treaties Online
New Zealand Treaties Online is the official record of all of the treaties binding on New Zealand. Database includes detailed treaty information.

Update: Access to New Zealand Law, GlobaLex
By Margaret Greville, update by Rosa Polaschek

Materials will be located in B2 North (map), with call numbers beginning with KUQ.