International and Foreign Law Resources
International Law
General Indexes
- CIAO/Columbia
International Affairs Online
- EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law)
- FINDLAW's International Law Index
- Hieros Gamos
- Index
to Foreign Legal Periodicals
- The International Law Meta-Page
- Trans-lex.org (The Center for Transnational Law (CENTRAL)) - a database "devoted to the law and practice of transnational business law."
- WASHLAW: The Foreign/International Directory
Primary Sources
Treaties and Other International Agreements
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: American Diplomacy 1778 to the Present
- Bilateral Treaties
- Diplomacy Monitor
- European Union Treaties
- Flare Index to Treaties (IALS database)
- Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties
- Human Rights Treaties and Other Instruments - University of Minnesota
- International Constitutional Law
- Internet Law Library: Treaties and International Law
- Treaties
and Agreements Library
- Treaties in Force from the U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Legal Advisor, Treaty Affairs
- United Nations Diplomatic Conferences - Digitized full text documents of selected diplomatic conferences
- United Nations Documentation Center (ODS)
- United
Nations Treaty Collection
Cases
- Clout - Caselaw on UNCITRAL Texts
- Court of Justice and Court of First Instance of the European Communities - Case Law
- European Court of Human Rights - Judgments and Decisions
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Cases
- International Courts & Tribunals Project (WorldLII)
- International Court of Justice (World Court)
- International Criminal Court - Legal Tools
- Permanent Court of Arbitration
- World Trade Organization - Dispute Settlement
Charters and Enabling Documents
- African [Banjul] Charter on Human and People's Rights
- Basic Documents Pertaining to Human Rights in the Inter-American System
- Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes, 1907(Permanent Court of Arbitration)
- Organization of American States Inter-American Democratic Charter
- Pact of the League of Arab States
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- United Nations Charter
- Uruguay
Round Agreements (WTO)
Organizations and Associations
- ABA International Law and Practice Section
- IFAR (International Foundation for Art Research)
- International Law Institute
- International Law Students Association
- Law of War Home Page (International Law of War Association - ILOWA)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition
- United Nations
- Security Council Documents (1946-1992)
- United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
Electronic Journals and Working Paper Series
- Boston University International Law Journal
- Boston University Working Papers Series
- Columbia University Law and Economics Studies Documents
- EJIL - The European Journal of International Law
- Electronic Journal of Comparative Law
- Emory International Law Review
- Human Rights Review
- Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
- International Journal of Refugee Law
- International Organization
- International Law in Brief
- Jean Monnet Working Papers
- Journal of Democracy
- Journal of International Affairs
- Journal of International Economic Law
- Ocean Development and International Law
- South African Human Rights Yearbook
- Web Journal of Current Legal Issues Ltd.
- World Bank Economic Review
- World Politics
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library has a wide variety of journals online that concern international and foreign law. For a sample of these journals, please see our electronic journals page.
Teaching and Research Tools
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases/Mirela Roznovschi, NYU School of Law
- Hague Convention on International Child Abduction: An Analysis of the Applicable Law and Institutional Framework of Fifty-One Jurisdictions and the European Union - Law Library of Congress, 2004
- Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet/Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago Law School
- Research Guide to International Law on the Internet from the University of Bologna, an extremely complete guide, including specialized pages in searching specialized topics
E-mail Discussion Lists
Dictionaries
- A Web of Online Dictionaries (R. Beard/Bucknell University)
- YourDictionary.com
Foreign Law
Regional Indexes
- Foreign and International Law (Washburn University School of Law)
- Foreign & International Law Resources: An Annotated Guide to Web Sites Around the World (Harvard Law School)
- Internet Law Library: European Law
Primary Sources by Country
- Constitution Finder
- Embassy Home Pages
- ILRG's LawRunner: Global Index
- Internet Law Library: Laws of Other Nations
- Library of Congress: Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
- University of Michigan Government Gazettes Online
- World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
Organizations and Associations
- Europa
- European Union Internet Resources
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Organization of American States
Teaching/Research Tools
- Foreign Government Information on the Internet
- Sources of Online Legal Information for African Countries (Jane Williams, GlobaLex)
Specific Topics
Art Law & Cultural Property
Copyright Law
- Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA) - World Intellectual Property Organization
- Collection of National Copyright Laws (UNESCO)
- Copyright-Watch
Economic Development/Finance
- Asian Development Bank
- G8 Information Centre
- The Inter-American Development Bank
- International Monetary Fund
- International
Trade Reporter
- Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- World Bank
Environmental
- Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN): includes SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center and ENTRI, Environmental Treaties and Resources Indicators. This is a rich resource for locating treaty information and cross-referencing these agreements with national information.
- Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
- Natural Resources WebLinks (Sturm College of Law)
- Pace University Virtual Environmental Law Library
Human Rights
- Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project
- Internally Displaced Persons: Guide to Legal Information Resources on the Web (LLRX), Elisa Mason (April, 2009)
- Project Diana: an International Human Rights Database
- Reports
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Indigenous Peoples
- Center for World Indigenous Studies: Fourth World Documentation Project
- Indigenous Peoples from the University of Western Australia
- Researching Indigenous Peoples Rights Under International Law - Steven C. Perkins
International Trade
- Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
- Commercial
and Tax Laws of the World
- International
Trade Reporter
- National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
- World Trade Organization
Law of the Sea
- Council on Ocean Law: Law of the Seas
- Institute of Maritime Law
- Maritime and Oceanic World Research, from the University of Nantes (in both French and English)
- Oceans and Law of the Sea
