Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

As the world becomes even more interconnected, how do librarians keep up with the growing international and comparative legal information needs of today’s increasingly transnational and multilingual legal professionals and law students? The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP), one of the American Association of Law Libraries premier publications, can help meet the never-ending need for accurate and diverse information from around the globe.

HeinOnline’s Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) database is an interactive online version of AALL’s Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, the preeminent multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in more than 800 legal journals worldwide. To make this product even more beneficial to our users, we created our newest feature: IFLP Alerts! Check out this quick tutorial or keep reading for more information on how to set up IFLP Alerts.

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP), the world’s only multilingual legal journal index, can help you assist patrons who seek credible foreign-language secondary law sources, from attorneys with transnational practices to students or faculty members researching comparative law topics. Established as a print resource by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in 1960, IFLP has since migrated to HeinOnline’s electronic research platform, making it even easier to use.

Are you an information professional at a law firm or government agency supporting the work of multilingual attorneys in transnational legal practice? Are you an academic law librarian seeking to better serve the needs of foreign-trained, non-native English-speaking LLM and other advanced degree students? Learn about the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals in this blog.