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International
and Comparative Law  General
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources For International Law
The ERG has been published online by the American Society of International Law since 1997.
An excellent resource for international law.International
Law
Activities of the United Nations in the field
of international law.
Law by
Source: Global
Legal Information Institute's (Cornell Law School) excellent
collection of Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions,
statutes, judicial opinions and related legal material from around
the globe. Cornell University Law Library has also published an
annotated
Foreign & International Law Guide.
LexMercatoria.org
Published by Cameron May, this site focuses on international commercial law.
Union of International Assocations
Links to international organisations selected from the Yearbook of International Organizations.
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Regional Organisations
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Homepage of the APEC Secretariat. Information about the organisation and free
access to selected APEC publications, including documents and reports.Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Maintained by the ASEAN Secretariat. Useful information at this site includes agreements signed at ASEAN
Summits, treaties and various
other political documents.
Europa
Portal site of the European Union. Information on policies administered by the EU as well as access to websites of EU institutions
including the
EUR-Lex
is the portal to European Union Law. This system makes it possible to consult the Official
Journal of the European Union and it includes inter alia the
treaties, legislation, case-law and legislative proposals.
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
Access to NATO publications, including the basic texts of the Alliance,
standardization agreements and the NATO handbook.
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International Organisations
Amnesty InternationaI (AI)
The work of AI is enshrined in the
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. The AI Library contains reports and news
releases searchable by country, region or theme.
Council of Europe
Important information on human rights, in particular the basic texts
and recent judgments
of the European Court of Human Rights.
Council of Europe
treaties are also
available here. European
Free Trade Association (EFTA)
The legal texts and various other publications of EFTA are made available by the Secretariat. International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
ICC policy statements, codes, rules and model contracts. The
International Court of Arbitration
webpage contains a useful searchable
index of where ICC arbitral awards have been published.
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Decisions of the ICJ, including judgments and advisory opinions (1947-), and basic
documents governing the administration of the Court.
International Criminal Court
Information on the court and full text court decisions. For in-depth information
on the court, particularly on its establishment, see the website of the
Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
International Labor
Organization (ILO)
Full texts of international labor standards and fundamental
principles.
International Law Commission (ILC)
Reports of the ILC, and conventions relating to the work of the Commission.
International Maritime Organization (IMO)
IMO conventions and status thereto as well as IMO circulars.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
IMF standards and
codes, and a large number of IMF publications in full text.
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Proceedings and judgments of the Tribunal, and conventions relating to the Law of the
Sea.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
OECD documentation including best practices, guidelines and legal instruments.
Permanent Court of Arbitration
(PCA)
Basic documents and treaties relating to the Court. Basic information
provided on pending and a selection of past cases.
United Nations
Comprehensive information on the work of the United Nations. Access to UN
documentation and publications. Contains a useful UN documentation research
guide. See also other UN
web servers including the
The World Bank
World Bank documents and reports.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Valuable resources include WIPO-administered treaties, the Collection of Laws
for Electronic Access (CLEA) database, and information on the Patent Cooperation
Treaty (PCT) system.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Official WTO documents, including legal texts of WTO agreements.
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International
Treaties and Conventions
Treaties and conventions are
published on the websites of most of the above organisations.
More treaty indexes are listed below :
Indexes
AsianLII
CommonLII
FindLaw:
Country Index
Global
Legal Information Network (GLIN)
LII
WorldLII
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