International Law
Major sources of international law, including treaties and decisions of international tribunals, documents from international and regional organizations, and material on selected topics.
Treaties | International Organizations | International Courts and Tribunals
Private International Law | Selected Topics in Public International Law
Treaties
- United Nations Treaty Collection Database
United States Treaties
- United States Treaties in Force
Senate, House, and Treaty Documents
Senate - Treaty Information
Treaties and conventions submitted to the Senate.
Bilateral Income Tax Treaties
United States tax treaties.
Selected Collections (by region or subject)
- Organization of American States Treaties
Treaties of the Council of Europe
European Union Treaties- EUR-Lex
Audio-Visual Library of International Law (United Nations)
The Research Library contains links to online resources for treaties (including a list of treaty collections maintained by individual states), cases and other documents and publications.
Treaties and International Agreements - World Legal Information Institute
International Humanitarian Law - International Committee of the Red Cross
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
Bilateral Investment Treaties: Worldwide BITs
UNCTAD's Investment Instruments Online.
Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Western Hemisphere (Free Trade Area of the Americas)
Worldwide Tax Treaties (Tax Analysts) (U.Va. only)
Includes in-force, pending, terminated, and unperfected treaties.
Trade Agreements (Foreign Trade Information System)
Multilateral, regional and bilateral agreements.
Trade and Related Agreements (Trade Compliance Center, U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International Instruments (U. of Minnesota Law Library)
A good starting point for cite-checkers.
Flare Index to Treaties (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London)
Information on significant multilateral treaties since 1856.
ASIL Research Guide to Treaties
An up-to-date guide to treaty research with an emphasis on online resources.
Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)
A comprehensive resource for full-text documents, citations and related information.
International Organizations
- Index to InterGovernmental Organizations
Northwestern University Library
United Nations
Official Website.
United Nations Official Document System (ODS)
Full-texts of documents dating back to 1993 are available in PDF format, with older documents added to the system on a daily basis. U.N. Resolutions, including those of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council, are available back to 1946.
United Nations Scholars' Workstation at Yale
Organization of American States
African Union
European Union
Council of Europe
International Labour Organization
International Seabed Authority
International Courts and Tribunals
- International Court of Justice
Official site containing decisions of the ICJ, a list of pending cases, the basic documents governing its operation, and other information about the court.
International Criminal Court
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Permanent Court of Arbitration
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
The Hague Justice Portal
Gateway to news, information and research resources on the international courts, tribunals and organizations in The Hague. Includes Domestic Case Law on International Crimes, cases and materials on public international law, and major international arbitral awards.
ESCR-Net Caselaw Database
Database of domestic, international, and quasi-judicial cases and decisions on economic, social and cultural rights.
World Court Digest (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and Int'l Law)
Reproduction of the conclusions of the International Court of Justice on points of international law, arranged by topic.
Private International Law
- Private International Law Database (U.S. Department of State)
Treaties, other international instruments, and information on negotiations and other projects in private international law in the areas of trade and commerce, finance and banking, trusts and estates, family and children issues, and international judicial assistance.
UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law)
Case law on UNCITRAL texts (CLOUT), documents, and current status of conventions and model laws.
UNIDROIT
Official Web site of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law. Contains conventions, principles, model laws and guides.
Hague Conference on Private International Law
IGO with the purpose of working “for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law” primarily through the negotiation, drafting and monitoring of international conventions. Contains the text of the conventions developed by the Conference.
Selected Topics in Public International Law
- GlobaLex (NYU’s Hauser Global Law School Program)
Research guides to international law (by subject) and foreign law (by jurisdiction).
i.lex: The Legal Research System for International Law in U.S. Courts (ASIL)
Select cases and other materials for understanding how international law has been applied by federal and state courts in the U.S.
Intute: Social Sciences Law Gateway
Links to and descriptions of online resources in international and foreign law, arranged by subject.
Criminal Law
- ASIL Research Guide to International Criminal Law
Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Select Bibliography (Globalex)
Environmental Law Human Rights
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Refworld
UNHCR's comprehensive information source on refugee status includes treaties, legislation and court decisions, as well as information organized by country and topic.
European Court of Human Rights
Pending cases, judgments, basic texts, and a complete index to all ECHR judgments.
Bayefsky.com: The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights Case Law Database
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Inter-American Human Rights Database
Washington College of Law. Full text of decisions from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, coverage more extensive than Minnesota Human Rights Library or the OAS.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
University of Minnesota.
ESCR-Net Caselaw Database
Database of domestic, international, and quasi-judicial cases and decisions on economic, social and cultural rights.
U.S. Department of State – Human Rights Website
Project Diana: An Online Human Rights Archive (Yale Law School)
ASIL Research Guide to International Human Rights
International Human Rights Research Guide (Globalex)
- Intellectual Property
- WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization
European Patent Office
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
General information, forms, free searchable patent & trademark databases.
U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright basics, law, forms, and other materials available through the Library of Congress, the entity responsible for copyrights.
ASIL Research Guide to International Intellectual Property Law
- GATT Documents Online (from the WTO)
GATT Digital Library (Stanford University)
WorldTradeLaw.net (U. Va. only)
International Trade Database: Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Pace University)
LexMercatoria.org (University of Tromso, Norway)
Information on international commercial law, international trade law and e-commerce.
Trans-Lex.org (Center for Transnational Law, Cologne University, Germany)
Research platform for transnational commercial law.
SICE – Foreign Trade Information System (Organization of American States)
United States International Trade Commission
United States Trade Representative
Harmonized Tariff Schedule
ASIL Research Guide to International Economic Law
ASIL Research Guide to International Commercial Arbitration
Research Guide on the Harmonization of International Commercial Law (Globalex)
- Women's Human Rights Resources (U. of Toronto)
Women's Human Rights Documents (U. of Minnesota)
Women’s Rights Links (U. of Minnesota)