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Guides, Portals & Reference Materials | Treaties | Trade, Commerce & Intellectual Property
Human Rights & International Criminal Law

Guides, Portals, and Reference Materials

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
  Basic strategies to find international legal materials in a variety of subjects.
• Audiovisual Library of International Law
  Audio and video of historic materials relating to significant legal instruments under the auspices of the UN and related agencies since 1945; lectures on virtually every subject of international law and a research library.
• AvalonProject: Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy
  Historical documents from 4000 BC to the present.
• Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)
  Primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law.
• Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
  Reference system on international relations and security trends, including conflicts, arms transfers and military expenditure; facts on states and international organizations; economic and social statistics; and chronologies.
• Foreign Affairs Manual and Foreign Affairs Handbooks (State Dept.)
  Links to the electronic editions of both publications.
• Foreign & International Law Resources: Annotated Guide to Web Sites Around the World (Harvard Law)
  Links to news, research tools, foreign and international legal sources, and international organizations.
• Foreign and International Law Web (Washburn Univ. School of Law)
  Links to primary foreign and international legal resources, organized by region and subject.
• Foreign Relations of the United States
  Information and original documents from the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations.
• Global Legal Information Network
  Database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources.
• Project on International Courts and Tribunals
  Excellent reference on the work of international courts and tribunals.
• Library of Congress Country Studies
  Description and analysis of historical settings and social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions.
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases (NYU Law)
  Over 20 topics including constitutions, environmental law, EU, and international law.
• ICC Legal Tools Project
  Electronic library on international criminal law and justice.
• Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online: International and Multinational
  Guides to multinational reference sources, online law reviews, treaties, and the OAS and UN. Excellent starting point for international & foreign research.
• Library of Congress Portals to the World
  Links to electronic resources, covering a variety of topics, from countries around the world.

Treaties

• Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History & Diplomacy
  Historical documents from 4000 BC to the present.
• Council of Europe: European Treaties
  Database of treaty texts, signatures, reservations, declarations, and explanatory reports.
• Dispatch Magazine (1990-1999)
  Major speeches and congressional testimony from the State Department.
• DOJ/OPDAT International Instruments
  Broad coverage of a variety of international instruments.
• Income Tax Treaties
  Full-text of income tax treaties.
• Multilaterals Project (Tufts University)
  Texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.
• Senate Legislation: Treaties
  Access to information on treaties received from the President, on the Executive Calendar, approved by the Senate, and other recent treaty status actions.
• United Nations Documents (UNODS)
  Official document system of the UN covering all types of official documentation, including resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council.
• United Nations Treaties
  Major UN legal publications, including the UN Treaty Series, Monthly Statement of Treaties & International Agreements, and the UN Legislative Series.

Trade, Commerce, and Intellectual Property

• European Union Directorate General of Competition
  Contact information, annual reports, reports of annual activity and staff and structure information.
• EUROSTAT
  European statistical database covering a variety of topics.
• Foreign Trade Information System (OAS)
  Full text of trade agreements in force for OAS Member States, policy developments, information on national trade-related legislation, and links to international, regional and national sources of trade policy information.
• Free Trade Area of the Americas
  Documents from FTAA negotiations and a trade and tariff database.
• globalEDGE Resource Desk (Michigan State University)
  Collection of thousands of international business resources.
• Intellectual Property Offices Directory
  Directory, by country, of National and Regional Intellectual Property Offices.
• International Patents (European Patent Office)
  Published patent applications (most in PDF format) from over 70 different countries and regions, with information going back to the 1920s.
• Juris International - International Trade Center
  Database of legal information on international trade.
• Trade and Related Agreements and Exporters' Guides
  Text of active, binding agreements between the United States and its trading partners covering manufactured products and services as well as quick, concise explanations of individual trade agreements.
• World Trade Organization
  Includes access to WTO legal texts.

Human Rights and International Criminal Law

• Human Rights and International Criminal Law Links (University of Kent)
  Freely available websites recommended as good starting points for legal research on human rights.
• Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)
  Collection of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Legal Tools
  Full text of laws and regulations promulgated by States to give effect to the three main international drug control treaties.

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