foreign law & human rights research lecture for advanced legal research
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foreign law research
human rights — general
human rights — regional
human rights — international criminal courts/tribunals
- ICC Legal Tools Database: Your one-stop shop for researching international criminal law.
- Case Matrix Network knowledge hub: ICC statute commentary & much more.
- The ICRC's Customary IHL Database: This is an online version of the ICRC’s study on customary international humanitarian law, originally published in print in 2005. The 2005 study consists of two volumes: volume I (rules) and volume II (practice). The database makes the rules and the practice underlying them accessible online. Its practice part is regularly updated. The rules remain the same as in 2005.
- Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed During the Period of Democratic Kampuchea [Note: This website is down often.]
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Court travaux préparatoires (via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine)
- Documents from the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court are available in searchable interface at documents.un.org (the search portal for the Official Documents of the UN website). just enter PCNICC/ in the Symbol search box. You can search full-text within those documents by using the Full-text search box.
- United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- ICTY Court Records (requires free registration)
- The War Crimes Verdicts Map: An interactive tool designed by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network to provide an overview of court rulings on the crimes that were committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, archived website
- International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg war crimes trials) from the Library of Congress
- International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg war crimes trials) from Yale's Avalon Project
- Search Harvard's Nuremberg Military Tribunal documents (US zonal war crimes trials in Nuremberg, not yet complete)
- International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo war crimes trials) Charter and Judgment
- Singapore War Crimes Trials (WWII era) Web Portal
- The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (the old website of the Special Court for Sierra Leone has been taken off-line). The RSCSL Court Records Database is quite useful.
- Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor: The official website for these panels is no longer up, but there is an archive of the indictments and judgments. Regulation 2000/15, the "statute" of the tribunal, is no longer officially available, but we have a copy of it here: UNTAET/REG/2000/15 (PDF). The International Center for Transitional Justice has a good retrospective report that analyses the panels, their process, and their results (PDF).
- Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal [Note: The original website is long gone. This version is via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.]
- Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Human Rights Commission within the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- UNMIK Regulations establishing the Interim Administration in Kosovo, setting up courts, appointing Kosovar judges, appointing international judges (and then amending, amending, and amending it again (this last one happened yearly), determining language of the case, and then establishing and amending a Human Rights Advisory Panel.
- Yale's Genocide Studies Program (very comprehensive, including historical cases)
other stuff
- www.asil.org/erghome.cfm: ASIL's electronic research guides
- www.eisil.org: ASIL's electronic information system for int'l law
- the max planck encyclopedia of public international law
- un treaty website
- LLMC Digital: This has in it a collection of older international law treatises, arbitration reports, foreign law, British Foreign & State Papers, international organization documents, and more.
- useful latin phrases & terms. This is a dictionary of useful Latin phrases I have compiled.
- www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html: NYU Hauser Global Law School's fantastic GlobaLex research guides
- www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Travaux_Preparatoires1.htm: GlogaLex's great guide to finding travaux préparatoires
- heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=ustreaties (Proxy): US Treaties & related info from HeinOnline
- lawschool.westlaw.com: You can't browse treaties on Westlaw, but you can find them with a citation & keycite them.
- www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool: You can't browse treaties on Lexis Advance, but you can find them with a citation & shepardize them
- www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/treaty-affairs/: The Department of State's Treaty Office website
- www.state.gov/tias/: The official TIAS website
- ustr.gov/trade-agreements: Trade agreements from the USTR (only some)
- congress.gov/treaties: All things treaty in the US Senate from the Library of Congress' Congress.gov website
- heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=alpha/A_unl&collection=unl(Proxy): UNTS & LNTS treaties & related info from HeinOnline
- www.eisil.org: Multilateral treaties from ASIL (EISIL)
- treaties.un.org/Pages/Home.aspx?lang=en: UN treaty website, including the all-important Status of Multilateral Treaties database
- treaties.un.org/doc/source/publications/THB/English.pdf: UN Treaty Handbook
- Flare Index to Treaties: a searchable database of basic information on over 2,000 of the most significant multilateral treaties concluded from 1353 onwards and a number of significant bilateral treaties signed between 1353 and 1815, from Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London.
- www.oas.org/en/sla/dil/treaties_agreements.asp: OAS Treaty Series
- eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties.html: European Union Treaty Series
- www.coe.int/en/web/conventions: Council of Europe Treaty Series (including the European Convention on Human Rights
- au.int/en/treaties: African Union Treaty Series
- investmentpolicyhub.unctad.org/IIA: International Investment Agreements Navigator from UNCTAD
- ihl-databases.icrc.org/ihl: International humanitarian law treaties from the ICRC (Law of Armed Conflict)
- avalon.law.yale.edu: Historical treaties & other documents (unofficial)
- www.usip.org/publications/2009/04/peace-agreements-digital-collection: Peace agreements from the US Institute of Peace's collections
- heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=cow/bfsprs&collection=cow(Proxy): British and Foreign State Papers
- treaties.fco.gov.uk/treaties/treaty.htm: Official UK treaties
- www.gov.uk/government/publications?departments%5B%5D=foreign-commonwealth-office: Publications of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/archives-diplomatiques/s-orienter-dans-les-fonds-et-collections/traites-et-accords: France's official treaty website (in French)
- library.law.yale.edu/collected-travaux-preparatoires: Collected Travaux Préparatoires from Yale
- Chemical Weapons Convention
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