Web Links: Public International Law
- Resource Guides
- International & Regional Organizations
- International Courts and Tribunals
- Treaties and Other International Agreements
- Others
1. Resource Guides
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
Cornell Law School - LII
Foreign Databases by Jurisdiction (New York University School of Law)
Guide to treaty reserch (AALL)
International Law General: University of Western Australia
Introduction to International Law Research (Brooklyn Law School)
Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet
Magagni Research Guide to International Law on the Internet
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
- in English and German
- electronic version of the "World Court Digest" which includes the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice from 1986-1995
- access to the Institute’s Online Public Access Catalogue
- selected links to relevant world-wide websites
Max Plank Collections of Links
Washburn’s International Law Page
2. International & Regional Organizations
a. Meta Sites
International Government Organizations
- alphabetical list of links, not annotated
International Organization Web Sites
b. United Nations
International Law Commission
- full-text of its annual reports, conventions and other texts, and an analytical guide to its work
Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations
UN-I-Que: United Nations Info Quest
- a database "designed to provide quick access to document symbols/sales no. for UN materials (1946 onwards). It does not give full bibliographic details nor does it replace existing bibliographic databases (UNBIS, UNBIS plus on CD-ROM) produced by the Library. UN-I-QUE focuses upon documents and publications of a recurrent nature"
UNESCO
United Nations
United Nations and other International Organizations\
United Nations Foundation
- the Foundation focuses on four issues: children's health, the environment, women and population and humanitarian causes. The site includes UN Wire which is the daily news summary covering the United Nations, global affairs and key international issues. Archives go back to January 1999
c. Other International Organizations
Coalition for International Justice
- an international, non-profit organization working to support the Yugoslavia and Rwanda war crimes tribunals
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
World Bank
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Trade Organization
3. International Courts & Tribunals
International Court of Justice (Official)
International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Justice Research Guide (Harvard Law School Library)
International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court: Resources in Print and Electronic Format
Compiled by Lyonette Louis-Jacques
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT)
- PICT contains news of existing international courts and tribunals (judgments, appointment of judges, etc.)
4. Treaties and Other International Agreements
1919 Treaty of Versailles
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Hague Conventions
Multilaterals project
- full text access to treaties, international multilateral conventions and instruments available at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts.
United Nations Treaty Collection
-available to York and Osgoode faculty and students.
Treaty Research Pathfinders
- prepared by Jacob Burns Law Library, George Washington University.
5.OTHERS
Careers in International Law
- prepared by Lyonette Louis-Jacques
International Law Dictionary and Directory (Ray August)
Kosovo and Yugoslavia: Law in Crisis
Legal essays indexed by subjects: international law
RAVE
- a database for finding citations to decisions and articles in public international law and European law in the legal literature
- sponsored by the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Sciences and Research and the Paul Mikat Foundation
- coverage goes back to 1995, mostly German legal periodicals and many non-German ones
- can be searched in English, French, or German
United Nations Scholars' Workstation

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