International Research Resources

Table of Contents of the Links Page

I. General Information Sources and Treaty Databases

II. United Nations System (partial listing)

III. US Federal Government Resources

IV. International Courts and Tribunals

V. Human Rights

VI. Law of the Sea

VII. Admiralty and Maritime Law

VIII. Historical Documents and Resources

IX. Trade, Commerce and International Commercial Dispute Settlement

X. International Development

XI. Environment and Wildlife

XII. Embassies, Consulates and Missions

XIII. Regional

XIV. Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution

XV. International Criminal Law and War Crimes

XVI. Non-Governmental Organizations ("NGO's")

            A. Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance

            B. Environmental and Wildlife Protection

            C. Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution

XVII. Major Journals in International Law

XVIII. Educational Institutions in International Law and International Affairs

            A. International Affairs Programs

            B. Law Schools

XIX. International Affairs Links

Links to Major International Law Organizations and Other Key Resources

I. General Information Sources and Treaty Databases

• The "Multilaterals Project" at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (A comprehensive treaty database)
• Global Legal Information Network (A service of the Library of Congress)
• Legal Information Institute - Cornell University Law School (A thorough directory of the laws of many countries including the United States; links to treaty databases)
• American Society of International Law ("ASIL") Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases (Via link to New York University School of Law Library. Its database of the laws of many countries is particularly strong)
• Foreign and International Law links of the D'Angelo Library of the University of Chicago (Like the NYU site, a very strong foreign law collection)
• American Bar Association ("ABA"): Section of International Law and Practice
• Hieros Gamos: Guide to International Law
• International Law Resources of the Westminster Law Library of the University of Denver
• CataLaw: Public International Law
• Pritchard Law Webs: Internet Law Library
• International Law of Treaties (A website devoted to the fundamental elements and principles of Public International Law. Excellent for students.)
• FindLaw.com: International Law Resources
• LawGuru.com: Treaties and International Law
• Foreign and International Law Web of Washburn University Law School
• International Center for Law, Trade and Diplomacy (Contains an excellent links page, especially national and regional websites)
• International Law Research on the Web (Via University of Florida, College of Law Web Site)
• Public International Law: Babson College
• The New York State Bar Association
• International Law Students' Association ("ILSA")

II.  United Nations System  (partial listing)

• United Nations Home Page
• United Nations Web Site Locator for the System of Organizations (We suggest you go to this site to find any UN body or agency not listed here.)
• United Nations International Law Resources
• United Nations Security Council
• United Nations General Assembly
• United Nations Secretariat
• United Nations Economic and Social Council ("ECOSOC")
• United Nations Peacekeeping
• United Nations International Law Commission ("ILC")
• United Nations Environment Programme ("UNEP")
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ("FAO")
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO")
• International Civil Aviation Organization ("ICAO")
• International Labor Organization ("ILO")
• World Health Organization ("WHO")

III.  US Federal Government Resources

• Law Library of Congress - Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
• US State Dept. Home Page
• US Federal Government Agencies Directory (Via Louisiana State University Libraries)
• FedWorld Information Network
• FedStats (A collection of statistics by many Federal government agencies)

IV. International Courts and Tribunals

• The International Court of Justice ("ICJ")
• The European Court of Justice
• The European Court of Human Rights
• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• The International Criminal Court ("ICC")
• The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("ICTY")
• The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• Special Court for Sierra Leone
• The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
• The Permanent Court of Arbitration
• WorldCourts.com (A partial directory of international courts and tribunals)
• The Project on International Courts and Tribunals ("PICT")
• GlobalCourts.com (A guide to Supreme Courts around the world)
• Courts.net (A comprehensive directory of the US Federal and State court systems)

V. Human Rights

• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Web Site
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Human Rights Internet
• International Law and Human Rights through the Doddel Server
• The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
• DIANA International Human Rights Database
• Human Rights Web
• Bayefsky.com
• Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online

VI. Law of the Sea

• United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
• International Maritime Organization ("IMO")
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Web Site "NOAA" (Via Link to U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
• Law Research: Law of the Sea
• Marine Law Institute: University of Maine School of Law

VII. Admiralty and Maritime Law

• WWW Virtual Library - Admiralty and Maritime Law
• AdmiraltyLaw.com

VIII. Historical Documents and Resources

• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
• Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History (Via Link to the American Colonist's Library)
• America's Story (Maintained by the Library of Congress, this is a useful and entertaining site geared for young students of history) 
• The History Net
• Hyper-History Online
• World History Archives

IX. Trade, Commerce and International Commercial Dispute Settlement

• World Trade Organization ("WTO") Web Site
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law ("UNCITRAL")
• International Institute for the Unification of Private Law ("UNIDROIT")
• World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")
• WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes ("ICSID")
• Lex Mercatoria (International trade and commercial law resources and links)
• International Chamber of Commerce ("ICC")
• American Arbitration Association ("AAA")
• Hague Conference on Private International Law (Intergovernmental organization working toward the progressive unification of the rules of private international law) 
• WorldTradeLaw.net
• ASIL Electronic Resource Guide: Private International Law

X. International Development

• World Bank Web Site
• International Monetary Fund Web Site ("IMF")
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ("UNCTAD")
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Web Site ("OECD")
• Inter-American Development Bank
• United Nations Development Programme ("UNDP")
• International Trade Centre (A technical cooperation organization supporting developing economies)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation ("OPIC") (Political risk insurance and loans for foreign investments -- particularly emerging markets)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency ("MIGA") (Political risk insurance and foreign investment promotion services)
• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
• World Economic Forum

XI. Environment and Wildlife

• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators ("ENTRI")
• Conservation and Biodiversity: World Wide Web Resources
• Envirolink
• Environmental Information Resources (A public-private partnership between the US EPA and the George Washington University)
• Internet Resources for the Environmental Scientist - International Sites
• WWW Virtual Library - Sustainable Development
• Convention on Biological Diversity Treaty Website
• Wildlife Committee American Branch, International Law Association 
• EcoFuture's Guide to Information Sources
• Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law (Includes a full collection of fishery agreements and important legal cases) 
• Wildlife Resources on the Internet (Via link to the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy)
• Environmental Law Institute
• Global Change Information Resources (A very thorough site devoted to global warming and climate change)
• Natural Resources Research Information Pages
• Australian Centre for Environmental Law (Australian and other legal resources via link to the University of Sydney)
• Institute for Nature Conservation Research (University of Tel Aviv)

XII. Embassies, Consulates and Missions

• United States Diplomatic and Consular Posts Around the World (Via Link to the US State Dept. Web Site) 
• Permanent Missions to the United Nations
• Embassy World (Directory of the world's embassies and consulates)
• The Electronic Embassy (A resource of, and for, the Washington, DC embassy community)

XIII. Regional

• "Europa" Web Site of the European Union ("EU")
• European Union Internet Resources (Via Link to UC Berkeley Library)
• Guide to European Union Legal Research (Via Link to Jean Monnet Center)
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization ("NATO")
• Organization of American States Web Site ("OAS")
• Organization of American States (OAS), Department of International Law 
• Mercosur (South America's Common Market)
• African Union Web Site ("AU"-- successor organization to the OAU)
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations Web Site ("ASEAN")
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ("APEC")
• Australasian Legal Information Institute
• Transitions Online (online publication about events in Central Europe)

XIV. Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution

• Peace and Security: General Information (Via link to UN Web Site)
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Web Site ("OSCE")
• War, Peace and Security WWW Server (Canadian Forces College, Information Resource Centre)
• Peace @nd Security World Wide Web Metapage
• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford University)
• Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity ("INCORE") (Contains a good collection of peace agreements by region)
• International Boundaries Research Unit (Via University of Durham; a good database of boundary and territorial disputes)
• GlobalSecurity.org
• Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

XV. International Criminal Law and War Crimes

• International Criminal Police Organization ("Interpol")

• War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, including Genocide (Relevant treaties from the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library) 
• Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (Via Avalon Project at Yale)
• Cambodian Genocide Project (Yale University)

XVI. Non-Governmental Organizations ("NGO's")

A.  Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance

• Amnesty International On-line
• Human Rights Watch
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• Human Rights First (formerly Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)
• Doctors Without Borders
• International Crisis Group
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs

       B.  Environmental and Wildlife Protection   

• Defenders of Wildlife
• World Wildlife Fund
• World Wildlife Fund - US
• WWF Global Network 
• Sierra Club
• Greenpeace
• American Cetacean Society
• Center for International Environmental Law
• Biodiversity Action Network ("Bionet")
• International Union for the Conservation of Nature ("IUCN")
• The Nature Conservancy
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Foundation for International Environmental Law & Development ("FIELD")
• Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Project on Environmental Change and Foreign Policy
• Society for Conservation Biology
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society
• World Resources Institute
• The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition
• Marine Wildlife Foundation/The JoJo Project (The site represents a truly unique marine mammal conservation foundation. JoJo is a real dolphin and friend of famous marine biologist Dean Bernal)
• The Ocean Conservancy
• Centre for Science and Environment
• Ocean Mammal Institute

C.  Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution

• Arms Control Association
• Business Executives for National Security
• Center for Defense Information
• Center for Security Policy
• Council for a Livable World (Contains an excellent arms control treaty database as well as up-to-date reports on the status of legislation and agreements)
• Executive Success Programs (A unique organization devoted to ethics and the advancement of human potential)
• Federation of American Scientists
• Foundation for Defense of Democracies
• Friends Committee on National Legislation (A Quaker public interest lobby)
• Hague Appeal for Peace
• Nautilus Institute
• Peace Action
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• 20/20 Vision
• Women's Action for New Directions

XVII. Major Journals in International Law

• American Journal of International Law
• American University International Law Review
• Berkeley Journal of International Law
• Boston College International and Comparative Law Review
• Boston University International Law Journal
• Brooklyn Journal of International Law
• California Western International Law Journal
• Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law
• Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
• Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy
• Columbia Human Rights Law Review
• Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
• Cornell International Law Journal
• Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
• Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law
• East European Constitutional Review (NYU Law School)
• Emory International Law Review
• European Journal of International Law
• European Law Journal
• Fordham International Law Journal
• Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
• George Washington International Law Review
• Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law
• Harvard International Law Journal
• Hastings International and Comparative Law Review
• Houston Journal of International Law
• ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law
• Indiana International & Comparative Law Review
• Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
• Journal of International Law and Policy (University of California at Davis) 
• Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (A Taylor & Francis Publication)
• Journal of Transnational Law and Policy (Florida State University College of Law)
• Law and Policy in International Business (Georgetown University Law School)
• Michigan Journal of International Law
• Michigan State University - Detroit College of Law Journal of International Law
• New York University Journal of International Law and Politics
• Stanford Journal of International Law
• Syracuse Journal of International Law & Commerce
• Temple International and Comparative Law Review
• Texas International Law Journal
• Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (Iowa College of Law)
• Tulane European & Civil Law Forum
• Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law
• Tulsa Journal of Comparative & International Law
• UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs
• University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law
• Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
• Virginia Journal of International Law (University of Virginia School of Law)
• Yale Journal of International Law

XVIII. Educational Institutions in International Law and International/Global Affairs

   A. International/Global Affairs Programs

• Association of Professional Schools in International Affairs ("APSIA")
• New York University M.S. Program in Global Affairs
• Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
• John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
• Yale Center for International and Area Studies
• Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
• Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
• Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
• Columbia University: School of International and Public Affairs ("SIPA")
• The Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University
• American University School of International Service
• The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University ("SAIS")
• University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies
• School of International Relations at the University of Southern California
• The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington
• The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (University of Minnesota)
• University of Maryland School of Public Affairs
• Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University
• Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh
• Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University

B. Law Schools

• American University Washington College of Law
• Columbia University Law School
• Georgetown University Law Center
• George Washington University Law School
• Harvard University Law School
• New York University School of Law
• Northwestern University School of Law
• Stanford Law School
• University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law
• University of Chicago Law School
• University of Michigan Law School
• University of Pennsylvania Law School
• University of Virginia School of Law
• University of Washington School of Law
• Yale University Law School

International Affairs Links

The United Nations                                     http://www.un.org/

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources http://www.etown.edu/vl/

The “Multilaterals Project” at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (probably the best treaty database on the Net) http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html

International Relations Resources at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy http://fletcher.tufts.edu/inter_resources/

International Law Help   http://www.InternationalLawHelp.com

The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/  

The World Bank                             http://www.worldbank.org/

The World Trade Organization                  http://www.wto.org/

EnviroLink                                       http://www.envirolink.org/

Conflict Resolution Information Source   http://www.crinfo.org/

International Boundaries Research Unit http://www-ibru.dur.ac.uk/

The Avalon Project (historical documents) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

WorldCourts.com (a partial directory of international tribunals)                                     http://www.worldcourts.com/

International Environmental Law and Policy Links

www.unep.org

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html

http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri

http://www.envirolink.org

http://www.gcrio.org

http://www.internationalwildlifelaw.org

http://www.unfccc.de

http://www.biodiv.org

http://www.cites.org

http://www.cms.int

http://www.noaa.gov