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International Organizations
- African Union (formerly Organisation of African Unity)
- The American Society of International Law (ASIL)
- Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) - Contains links to primary documents, recommended websites, and research guides for broad categories of international law.
- Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (American Society of International Law)
- Amnesty International
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Union
- The Council of the European Union
- The European Commission
- The European Court of Justice
- EUR-Lex (European Union Law Documents)
- Free Trade Area of the Americas
- The Hague Conference on Private International Law
- International Chamber of Commerce
- International Court of Justice (ICJ)
- International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO/INTERPOL)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Mercosur
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- United Nations
- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
Treaty Collections
- Flare Index to Treaties (provides citations to over 1500 treaties)
- United Nations Treaty Collection Online - contains the text of international agreements registered with the United Nations since 1946 and information on the status of the registered treaties.
- *Hein Online - Treaties and Agreements Library lets you browse U.S. and other treaties.
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- Bilateral Treaties 1778 to the Present (Treaties, Agreements and Correspondence)
- Laws of War
- Treaties Between the United States and Native Americans
- GATT Digital Library 1947-94 (Stanford University) permits public access to de-restricted documents of the GATT, the predecessor of the WTO. Registration required.
- Council of Europe's Treaties
- Treaties in Force (Dept. of State listing of treaties of which the U.S. is a party)
- Guide to Researching U.S. Treaties (LLRX) - Describes in detail how and where to find U.S. treaties.
- Researching Travaux Preparatoires - Globalex guide to finding and using treaty drafting documents.
Individual Treaties
- Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works (1886)
- Charter of the Organization of American States (1967)
- Charter of the United Nations (1945)
- Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
- Convention on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1960)
- Convention Relating to a Uniform Law on the International Sale of Goods (1964)
- Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949)
- Human Rights Instruments (UN OHCHR)
- Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (1994)
- (Final Act & Annexes)
- North American Free Trade Agreement
- Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883)
- Statute of the Hague Conference on Private International Law
- Statute of the International Court of Justice
- United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) (1980)
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- Vienna Convention on the Law Of Treaties (1969)
- World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty (1996)
Other Sites
- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
- Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) - contains links to primary documents, recommended websites, and research guides for broad categories of international law.
- Encyclopedia of Public International Law - (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) The Encyclopedia has over 1,000 articles that provide in-depth commentary on public international and comparative law. Encyclopedia articles are fully searchable or browseable using the list of subject or index terms.
- GlobaLex (NYU) (guides to researching specific aspects of international law)
- Hague Conference on Private International Law - conventions, status and working documents produced by the Conference. It includes conventions related to international judicial assistance.
- World Legal Information Institute - list of countries with links to legal resources available on the internet.
Human Rights
- GlobaLex (NYU) (guides to researching specific aspects of international law)
- e-Resource Guide: International Human Rights (Marci Hoffman) - general guide on resources
- uSearch: UM law library catalog
- Encyclopedia of Public International Law - detailed encyclopedia on public international law and comparative law
- *Oxford Reports on International Law - decisions of international, regional and domestic courts, specific module on human rights
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - full text of resources, not really being updated
- U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- United Nations Official Document Service
- United Nations Treaty Collection Online - contains the text of international agreements registered with the United Nations since 1946 and information on the status of the registered treaties.
- Centre for Civil and Political Rights - includes the state reports
- *Hein Online - Treaties and Agreements Library, U.N. Treaty Series, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, World Constitutions.
- Treaties in Force (Dept. of State listing of treaties of which the U.S. is a party)
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights - includes reports, and cases (e.g. merits, friendly settlement)
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights - has the jurisprudence of the court, but not useful searching
- U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor) - annual country reports on human rights, also U.S. treaty reports
- Constitute Project - world constitutions in English, can compare different provisions, and search for provisions
- Refworld - source for decisions dealing with refugees, and other human rights cases
International Moot Court
- GlobaLex (NYU) (guides to researching specific aspects of international law)
- Researching Trauvaux Préparatoires
- uSearch: UM law library catalog
- Encyclopedia of Public International Law - detailed encyclopedia on public international law and comparative law
- *Oxford Reports on International Law - decisions of international, regional and domestic courts, specific module on human rights
- United Nations Treaty Collection Online - contains the text of international agreements registered with the United Nations since 1946 and information on the status of the registered treaties.
- UN Official Document System
- *Hein Online - Treaties and Agreements Library, U.N. Treaty Series, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, World Constitutions.
- KluwerArbitration (BITs, conventions, annotated NY Convention, commentary, and more)
- TDM (Transnational Dispute Management)
- UNIDROIT (conventions, explanatory and preparatory texts)
- Hague Conference on Private International Law
- UNCITRAL (treaty, case law, etc.)
- Refworld - source for decisions dealing with refugees, and other human rights cases
- Investor State Law Guide - designed for researching investment treaty law, features include the Subject Navigator, Treaty Article Citator, Jurisprudence Citator
- Oxford Scholarship Online - ebooks on law and other topics published by Oxford
- Foreign Law Guide - detailed descriptions of legal systems, primary sources of law, and laws by specific topic
- Organization of American States (OAS) - treaties and documents prepared by the OAS. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights also has jurisprudence.
- Eur-Lex - legal documents and Official Journal for the European Union. HUDOC provides access to jurisprudence from the European Court of Human Rights
- vLex - full text of foreign law, focuses on Latin American and Europe
- Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations - dictionary of legal abbreviations (mostly English language)