International Law Resources

Research guides

EISIL - Electronic Information System for International Law. Database of authenticated primary and other materials across the breadth of international law, with detailed subject breakdown and access to primary documents and secondary materials, hitherto scattered over a number of different sites. It is being developed by the American Society for International Law

Guide to electronic resources for international law - Valuable guide on the ASIL site, with separate sections for different areas of international law

Legal research on international law issues using the internet

LLRX - the Law Library Resource Xchange site has a definitive Resource Center on international/foreign law, with research guides on many different aspects of international law and a feature on Keeping current with international law via the web

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Resources

ASIL - American Society of International Law. A mass of valuable information on the teaching, theory and practice of international law
Avalon Project - Yale University. Collection of texts in law, history and diplomacy from pre-18th century to the present
British Institute of International and Comparative Law- UK based research institute
Findlaw - international law page on this well-known site
Free Trade Area of the Americas - Includes draft agreement and proposals on intellectual property rights, anti-dumping measures, e-commerce and competition. Links to relevant information by country
Hieros Gamos - comprehensive global information
International Law - United Nations international law page
UN-I-QUE - searching tool for UN information from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library
US State Department including US foreign policy across the world
World Bank Law Library- A wealth of resources on international law, including access to publications, link to the RAVE index for searching journal articles in public international law and the Law & Justice gateway
WTO Docs Online - WTO Documents online service. Easy to use searchable database of WTO documents, including press releases and full texts of WTO agreements. Documents are downloadable or can be printed from screen
World Court Digest. From the Max Planck Institute. Judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the International Court of Justice as well as separate opinions of individual judges. Well organized and easy to browse or search
World Law - AustLII's index includes pages for international law

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Online journals

The following are full text journals available free on the web. Numerous other journals are available via services such as Westlaw and Lexis.

Index to journals

RAVE - an index to court decisions and articles in journals on public international law and European law. Over 180 journals are covered from 1995, with links to full text online where available

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International courts

International Court of Justice- includes links to all contentious cases and advisory opinions referred to the Court since 1946, and decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice 1922-46
International Criminal Court
European Court of Justice- includes recent judgments in full, and Proceedings of the Court (summaries of judgments and opinions)
European Court of Human Rights- full text of recent judgments and complete list of judgments from 1959
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea- includes proceedings and judgments and basic documents
PICT - Project on International Courts and Tribunals, providing links to the case law from all the international courts as well as news and other materials. A joint project from the Centre on International Cooperation (New York University) and FIELD - Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development, (SOAS, London University)

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Treaty research

Fundamentals of treaty research- Lyonette Louis-Jacques' resources page (University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library)
Researching non-US treaties and agreements - Stefanie Wegman's guide on the LLRX site
Researching US treaties and agreements- Marci Hoffman's guide on the LLRX site
Treaties - ASIL guide to electronic resources on international law. A valuable and comprehensive research guide

Sources for treaties

European Treaty Series- Council of Europe. Includes the European Convention on Human Rights
European Union treaties and consolidated versions of the treaties
Fletcher Multilaterals Project- a major site for treaties
Globelaw - includes treaties and conventions on international law and international environmental law
Hague Conventions on Private International Law available on the Hague Conference on Private International Law site, including full texts, full status report, bibliography and translations
UN Treaty Collection - includes the full text of 34,000 treaties in the United Nations Treaty Series as well as current information on the status of multilateral treaties
UN organizations publish their treaties on their websites. See ILC - UNHCHR - FAO - UNEP - Law of the Sea
Other collections of treaties include ILO - UNIDROIT -WIPO

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International organizations

EISIL- see above for description
International organization web sites - alphabetical, subject and regional indexes of organizations

ASEAN - Association of South East Asian Nations
CoE - Council of Europe
EFTA - European Free Trade Association
IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
ICC - International Chamber of Commerce
ILA - International Law Association
ILC - International Law Commission
ILO - International Labor Organization
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IMO - International Maritime Organization
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
OAS - Organization of American States

OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
United Nations and access to all of its agencies. Use the UN System of Organizations to locate these.
UN in brief includes links to UN specialized agencies
UN-I-QUE - UN Info Quest is a search engine for the UN system, provided by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library
World Bank
WHO - World Health Organization
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization
WTO - World Trade Organization

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Miscellaneous international law

Annual Review of Population Law - summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions and government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive health,
women's rights, and related topics.
Chemical and Biological Warfare Project - Joint Bradford Department of Peace Studies-SIPRI project to disseminate information on the existing Conventions and related chemical and biological warfare issues, with links to lots of useful material
Council on Ocean Law. Includes links to international conventions on the law of the sea. Includes related conventions and links to relevant US departments and interested groups. Useful content, including details on the status of relevant conventions.
Institute of Air and Space Law - site for the legal regulation of international civil aviation and space applications, at McGill University, Montreal
International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University
International Water Law Project - documents, case law bibliography and other useful information on international water law
Ocean law - incorporating the Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law. A reference guide to international fisheries law and the law of the sea, containing texts of treaties and agreements, cases, a directory of organizations and links to other sites