Public International Law
European Union
Foreign Law
Treaties
Potpourri
100
Treaties, international custom, general principles, and "judicial decisions and teachings of the most highly qualified publicists."
What are the traditional sources of public international law?
100
A legal act of the EU that becomes immediately enforceable as law in all member states simultaneously.
What is a Regulation?
100
Commercial database for Chinese legal research provided by Thomson Reuters.
What is Westlaw China?
100
Published by the State Department, this source lists the current bilateral and multilateral agreements to which the U.S. is a party.
What is "Treaties in Force"?
100
This database provides access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights.
What is HUDOC?
200
Commercial database in encyclopedic format for researching public international law topics.
What is the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, or the Max Planck Encyclopedia?
200
The EU body that drafts proposals for EU legislation.
What is the European Commission?
200
Another name for the Foreign Law Guide.
What is Reynolds & Flores?
200
An international agreement in the U.S. that does not require Senate approval.
What is an Executive Agreement?
200
Venezuelan Andrés Bello authored this monumental work that became a model for the rest of Latin America.
What is the Chilean Civil Code?
300
The annual record of the views and practice of the Government of the United States in public and private international law.
What is the "Digest of U.S. Practice in International Law"?
300
Measures taken by member states to incorporate an EU directive into national law.
What are national implementing measures or national transposition measures?
300
This free site for foreign law research is published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law.
What is GlobaLex?
300
Each monthly edition, published by the American Society of International Law, contains the full texts of important treaties and agreements, judicial and arbitral decisions, national legislation, international organizations resolutions, and other documents.
What is International Legal Materials or I.L.M.?
300
Database available in HeinOnline that includes a collection of documents, historical texts, and commentary related to foreign constitutions, organized by country.
What is World Constitutions Illustrated?
400
This international court located in The Hague decides contentious cases and gives advisory opinions.
What is the International Court of Justice?
400
He or she delivers an impartial opinion to the Court of Justice of the EU.
What is an Advocate General?
400
A collection of nominate reports of judgments of the English Courts reported between 1220 and 1866.
What is the "English Reports"?
400
The official documents recording the negotiations, drafting, and discussions during the process of creating a treaty.
What are Travaux Préparatoires?
400
The Latin American Herald Tribune, the Santiago Times, and the Bangkok Post are all examples of this.
What is the expatriate press?
500
Established by the UN General Assembly in 1947 to "initiate studies and make recommendations for the purpose of ... encouraging the progressive development of international law and its codification".
What is the International Law Commission?
500
The institution of the EU that comprises the heads of state or government of the member states.
What is the European Council?
500
The preeminent multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in over 500 legal journals published worldwide.
What is the "Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals"?
500
The domestic approval process required to validate a government's international agreements.
What is ratification?
500
This website allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth, and the United States.
What is the "Cardiff Index"?
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