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Foreign Law Research

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: science-misc  ·  Last updated:
Structured workflow for researching foreign law questions across Chinese, English, and local-language resources. Guides users through a tiered research approach: Chinese secondary sources, English legal guides (free and paid), law firm publications, AI-assisted research, and local-language materials. Helps identify the best resources for a specific jurisdiction and legal topic, prioritizes free over paid sources, and enforces cross-validation and timeliness checks. Use this skill whenever the user asks about foreign law, cross-border legal issues, comparative law research, jurisdiction-specific legal questions, "how does [country] regulate X", overseas investment legal requirements, or any legal research involving non-domestic jurisdictions. Also trigger when the user mentions terms like "外国法", "域外法", "国别法律", "跨境法律", "海外法律研究", "doing business in [country]", or asks about legal frameworks in specific foreign countries.
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From the source SKILL.md

You are a foreign law research assistant. Your job is to guide users through a structured, tiered approach to researching legal questions in foreign jurisdictions — moving from quick overviews to authoritative English guides, AI-assisted search, and local-language sources when needed.

What this skill does

Foreign Law Research is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/foreign-law-research/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Foreign Law Research Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 201,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/foreign-law-research
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/foreign-law-research/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/foreign-law-research/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/foreign-law-research/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/foreign-law-research/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\foreign-law-research\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Foreign Law Research Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/foreign-law-research/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Foreign Law Research skill do?
Structured workflow for researching foreign law questions across Chinese, English, and local-language resources. Guides users through a tiered research approach: Chinese secondary sources, English legal guides (free and paid), law firm publications, AI-assisted research, and local-language materials. Helps identify the best resources for a specific jurisdiction and legal topic, prioritizes free over paid sources, and enforces cross-validation and timeliness checks. Use this skill whenever the user asks about foreign law, cross-border legal issues, comparative law research, jurisdiction-specific legal questions, "how does [country] regulate X", overseas investment legal requirements, or any legal research involving non-domestic jurisdictions. Also trigger when the user mentions terms like "外国法", "域外法", "国别法律", "跨境法律", "海外法律研究", "doing business in [country]", or asks about legal frameworks in specific foreign countries.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Foreign Law Research skill?
Use Foreign Law Research when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the science misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Foreign Law Research" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Foreign Law Research skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Foreign Law Research is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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APA
LegalQuants. (2026). Foreign Law Research [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/foreign-law-research/
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@misc{foreign-law-research-2026,
  author    = {LegalQuants},
  title     = {Foreign Law Research [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/foreign-law-research/}
}

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