Public International Law
This UN commission is tasked with "codifying" international law.
What is the International Law Commission (ILC)?
This website is the "portal" to EU law, including legislation, treaties, and caselaw.
What is EurLex?
Despite dramatic headlines describing this organization as sinking into an abyss of irrelevance because of a defunct appellate body, its website is still an important resource for international trade law jurisprudence, finding regional trade agreements, and other information on international trade.
What is the WTO?
This subscription resource is an online collection of authorities including treatises and commentaries such as The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific, and The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties: A Commentary.
What is Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law?
This annotated law report available on Westlaw has articles on the application of conventions such as the New York Convention in different jurisdictions.
What are American Law Reports - International?
You can research country reports, treaty interpretations, Special Rapporteur reports, and other information about the human rights treaties (e.g. ICCPR, CRC, and CEDAW) on this website.
What is OHCHR.org? (will also accept just OHCHR and Office of the High Commissioner for human rights)
This free website hosted by the NYU Law Hauser Global Law School program provides guides to foreign law with overviews of foreign legal systems and links to sources of primary and secondary law.
What is GlobaLex?
This free online "policy hub" hosted by UNCTAD (UN Conference on Trade & Development) allows you to search national investment legislation, investment treaties, and investor-state disputes.
What is the investment policy hub?
This "encyclopedia" provides articles written by experts on various issues and topics in international law.
What is Max Planck Encyclopedias?
This American international law organization has in-depth articles on topics in international law known as "Insights" with footnotes and references to other resources.
What is ASIL? (American Society of International Law)
These preparatory documents can clarify ambiguous treaty clauses.
What are travaux preparatoires?
This subscription resource provides primary and secondary sources for laws by subject in foreign jurisdictions.
What is the Brill Foreign Law Guide?
This subscription resource hosted by Wolters Kluwer, which also has a freely available blog, provides commentary, treatises, books, arbitration awards, model rules, treaties and other resources for arbitration research.
What is Kluwer Arbitration?
These "sheets", available online on the ECHR's website, are helpful if you are researching the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on a particular topic such as Freedom of Religion because they provide summaries of decisions by the Court on that topic.
What are fact sheets?
This Center's website hosted by Columbia Law School is an excellent resource for researching climate litigation.
What is the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law?
These special UN human rights experts release reports on different human rights topic areas.
What are Special Rapporteurs?
This free "eco" website is a portal to environmental law and one of many "lex" websites that allow you to search for foreign law in different subject areas.
What is EcoLex?
This subscription "guide" provides citators for trade law including the WTO agreements and jurisprudence and a searchable glossary of words and phrases.
What is the Trade Law Guide?
This publication released by the Office of Treaty Affairs of the U.S. Department of State lists all the bilateral and multilateral treaties in force that the U.S. is a party to.
What is treaties in force?
This "world legal news" blog provides short articles on legal developments in international and foreign law.
What is jurist.org?
These numbered "general" treaty body reports drafted by the treaty committees (e.g., the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women) explain or clarify treaty applications to particular topic areas.
What are general comments or general recommendations? (either or both will be accepted)
This EU body represents the EU internationally and proposes legislation to be considered by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers.
What is the European Commission?
This UN Commission has model arbitration rules for commercial and investment arbitration, texts of treaties such as the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, and CLOUT a caselaw database.
What is UNCITRAL? (The UN Commission on International Trade Law)
This peaceful library for the International Court of Justice has research guides and bibliographies on various topics in international law.
What is the Peace Palace Library?
This international law blog - named after the second element necessary to establish a rule of customary international law - has in-depth articles by scholars in international law with links to additional sources.
What is Opinio Juris?