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INTERNATIONAL LEGAL RESEARCH GUIDES:
ANTITRUST LAW:
ASIAN LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE (AsianLII),
"Free access to Asian Law."
The AVALON PROJECT, Documents in Law,
History and Diplomacy at the Yale Law School. "The Avalon Project will mount
digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy
and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the
text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text."
CIVIL SOCIETY and NOT-for-PROFIT LAW:
CONSTITUTIONS WORLDWIDE:
COPYRIGHT LAW:
COURTS:
CRIMINAL LAW AND STATISTICS:
ELECTION AND PARLIAMENTARY INFORMATION
FAOLEX "is a comprehensive and up-to-date computerized legislative database, one of the world's largest
electronic collection of national laws and regulations on food, agriculture and renewable natural resources.
Users of FAOLEX have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each text, as well as
to the full text of most legislation contained in the database." (BY UN Food and Agriculture Organization)
"Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides instant access
to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide...."
FOREIGN NATIONAL GOVERNMENT LAW:
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases, by Law Library, New York Univeristy,
School of Law. Is a very useful and far reaching resource.
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS)
"The so-called "right of humanitarian intervention" has been one of the most controversial foreign policy issues
of the last decade - both when intervention has happened, as in Kosovo, and when it has failed to happen, as
in Rwanda. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, in his report to the 2000 General Assembly, challenged
the international community to try to forge consensus, once and for all, around the basic questions of principle
and process involved: when should intervention occur, under whose authority, and how. The independent International
Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty was established by the Government of Canada in September 2000
to respond to that challenge." THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT,
the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
International Court of Justice.
International Development Law Organization (IDLO)
"is an international intergovernmental organization dedicated to promoting the rule of law and good governance
in developing countries, countries in economic transition and in those emerging from armed conflict"
LAWLINKS
is compiled by the Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
A far reaching topical international law resource, with some extra emphasis on the law of the UK,
other European Countries, and the European Union.
Legal Research on INTERNATIONAL LAW Issues Using the Internet,
authored by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law
Librarian and Lecturer in Law University of Chicago Law School, D'Angelo
Law Library, an excellent resource. See also her "FOREIGN LAW:
Legal Research Resources on the Internet".
Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX) providing
extensive key legal resources, both for the United States and elsewhere.
MARITIME/OCEAN LAW and ISSUES:
Migration (International) and Refugee Law.
Multilaterals Project, Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Boston, MA USA.,
providing extensive information on and texts of Multilateral Conventions and
Treaties, and links to other international treaty sites.
PACIFIC ISLANDS
Patent and Trademark Information at the University of Washington Engineering Library.
PEACE, CONCILIATION, RECONCILIATION, and
TRUTH COMMISSIONS:
Truth commission websites:
United Nations "International Law" webpage.
United States International Law:
WashLaw.
Women in International Law:
Research Resources by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian
and Lecturer in Law, D'Angelo Law Library, The University of Chicago Law School.
"The following are suggested books and articles to read for background information on
women and international law issues." Most references are hot linked in this very
substantive page.
"World Legal Information Institute (WLII)
"Free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law.
860 databases from 123 countries and territories via the Free Access to Law Movement." Full text of case law
is emphasized.
World Bank Law and Development webpage. "Effective
legal frameworks and institutions are pivotal for alleviating poverty. This website's objective is
to share legal knowledge for development."
World Legal Systems
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International Commercial Trade Law Databases:
"ASIL’s goal is to ensure, through EISIL, that web searchers can easily locate the highest quality
primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet.
To this end, EISIL has been designed as an open database of authenticated primary and other materials across
the breadth of international law, which until now have been scattered in libraries, archives and specialized
web sites."
The manual is organized by country and within each is
categorized by: Background and Legal System, Constitution, Statutes, Administrative Regulations, Codes,
Case Law and Sources (of information). Not all categories are available for all countries at this time.
It is published by the Washington University Global Studies Law Review.
See especially:
Reference & Legal Research.
Within this page, be certain to see
"Internet Legal Resources", then "Foreign and International Legal Indexing Sites".
Electronic and print resources are intermingled.
"This tutorial is designed to teach students research strategies and methodology for
researching both print and electronic sources of international legal materials. The tutorial includes review
questions and a final review to give students an understanding of how these materials are organized, and to
teach them how to locate international legal documents such as treaties, agreements and the documentation of
international organizations.
This tutorial is a collaborative project between Duke University School of Law and University of
California, Berkeley, School of Law and was created with support from the Duke Center for Instructional Technology."
TOPICAL:
Collection of National Copyright Laws
"This site endeavours to provide access to national copyright and related rights legislation
of UNESCO Member States."
Globalex: International, comparative and Foreign Law, Hauser Global Law School Program,
New York University School of Law, by Mirela Roznovshci, Ed.
Digests or summarizes laws of individual countries.
Foreign Law Guide
by Thomas H. Reynolds, Arturo A. Flores, Online and Looseleaf Print versions, provided by the UW, Marian Gallagher
Law Library. Provides "Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World" in print
and online.
"466 databases from 51 Commonwealth and common law countries
and territories"
On the UN's International Maritime Organization webpage, don't miss the
Quick Links button on the left side of the
page.
See also OCEANS AND WATER LAW below.
Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources
by Ruth Bird, Law Librarian, University of Melbourne Law School
on LLRX.com.
REFUGEE LAW:
TREATIES:
Includes UNTS, Multilateral Treaties
Deposited with the Sec. General, and much more.
For help in using, see
UNTS ( within UN Treaty Collection) help by by Susan Kurtas of the Reference Team, UN Dag Hammarsjkold Library.
See also
International humanitarian law (IHL). "Section explaining international humanitarian law (IHL),
its role in the protection of victims of war and its relationship with the work of the ICRC. The main
treaties are the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols."
(See also PEACE, CONCILIATION, RECONCILIATION...)
Washburn University School of Law Library's "WashLaw", another
extensive source for foreign and international law texts, contacts and
academic resources.
"The initial idea to create this Website on "world legal systems" stems from a particular
interest: the fact that both civil law and common law are taught at the Law Faculty of the
University of Ottawa. The Faculty, through its National Program, further offers its students
the possibility of taking a degree in both legal systems within a four-year time period,
thereby improving their employment prospects. Thus it seemed desirable to afford them,
through this Website, a true perspective of the importance of each of these two legal
systems on an international level."
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL TRADE LAW
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
International Commercial Trade Law Websites:
"This collection offers the full text, often with descriptive summary, of various
conventions, model laws, as well as standards and customs of international trade.
The pages of information on these instruments include, where appropriate, the list of
ratifications and adhesions per country."
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW and POLICIES
Multiple Environmental Topics including Law Text Websites:
Major Resources:
Note the link to Environmental Law Instruments.
For additional environmental information from UNEP, see
United Nations Environment Network.
United Nations Environment Programme/Global
Resource Information Database (GRID Arendal, Norway) which includes very useful international
and country "State of the Environment Reports".
Selective Resoures:
APCEL Asia-Pacific Centre For Environmental Law.
OCEANS AND WATER LAW:
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