The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) of the United States Law Library of Congress is now searchable via the World Legal Information Institute.

GLIN Abstracts provides databases from 40 countries: Angola, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kuwait, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela.

Approximately half the 139,622 abstracts provide links to the full texts of the legislation, court decisions and other documents that are abstracted. This increases WorldLII’s coverage to 820 databases from 123 countries.