Foreign, International & Transnational Law Resources
ASIL's Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
Includes guides for Human Rights, International Commercial Arbitration, International Criminal Law, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, International Intellectual Property Law, International Organizations, Private International Law, Treaties, and United Nations.
Hague Academy of Collected Courses Online
The Collected Courses Online is the electronic version of the longstanding book series on international law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. They are given by the most prominent legal specialists in the world. All courses at the Academy are published in the language in which they were delivered, either in English or in French. The Collected Courses Online now covers more than 330 volumes (150,000 pages) containing over 1200 lectures given over a period of 85 years. At least seven new volumes are added every year. The result is a constantly growing fully searchable encyclopedic collection on international law.
Human Rights Research
Georgetown Law Library's comprehensive collection for research on human rights including background sources, systems, case law, country reports, women's human rights resources, periodicals, current awareness, IGOs and NGOs, and bibliographies and other research guides.
ICC -- Article 98 Research Guide
This guide lists the Article 98 agreements published in Treaties in Force and any additional agreements posted to the most recent edition of Treaty Actions. The full-text agreements are from the U.S. Dept. of State's Reporting International Agreements to Congress under Case Act website. They are listed alphabetically by country; all documents are in pdf format
International Affairs Resources
Elizabethtown - Internet directory of international affairs, relations, studies, news, etc.
International and Foreign Law Research Guides (GlobaLex)
Research guides on a variety of countries and international topics.
International and Foreign Law Research Guides (LLRX)
Research guides on a variety of countries and international topics.
International Research Guides
GlobaLex at NYU - Many research guides on different aspects of international law research
Journal of the History of International Law
The object of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, without projecting present relationships upon the past, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of current international legal problems.
United Nations Resources and Research Tools
Not your ordinary guide; nice chart with searching hints and tools tailored to specific research needs (also available in pdf).
Access to Justice Information in Latin America
This study on access to judicial information in 10 Latin American countries, carried out by the Due Process of Law Foundation, assesses the principal laws and regulations on access to judicial information in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Panama, and Uruguay.
Biblioteca Jurídica Virtual
Created by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), this virtual library contains over 35 online, full-text foreign and international journals, including several indexed in IFLP.
Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
This is a collection of 2,842 declassified records documenting the controversial history of U.S. policy toward, and relations with, Chile from 1970 when the Nixon administration decided to intervene against the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, to 1990 when the U.S.-supported military regime that deposed Allende was finally forced to step down. The collection covers a range of major issues, including the Nixon administration's policy-making process related to overthrowing Allende, the implementation of covert operations to bring about regime change, as well as its assistance in consolidating the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. The set also contains documentation on U.S. policy toward human rights violations; international terrorism; the historic, and peaceful return to democracy in Chile; and the pursuit of justice against Pinochet.
Constituciones Latinoamericanas
Current and historical Latin American constitutions.
Digitalia Political Science & Law Resources
Hispanic law collection of more than 250 Spanish language ebooks including interdisciplinary resources on topics such immigration law, colonization, and general political science topics from both Spain and Latin America. Publishers include Trotta, Dykinson, Biblioteca Nueva, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Pontificia Catolica del Peru, Universidad del Rosario, Argentina, and more. Updated monthly with new titles.
Documentos Digitalizados del Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional de Guatemala
Digitized documents from the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive (AHPN), discovered in 2005. Timely resource for the study of Guatemalan history and human rights in the region. Topics include Guatemala's armed conflict between 1960 and 1996 and the sexually transmitted disease experiments performed at the behest of the United States government in the 1940s. Includes over 10 million scanned images of documents from the National Police Historical Archive.
Enrique Bolaños Presidential Virtual Library
The first virtual library of its kind in Nicaragua and Central America. Features the most complete collection of primary sources pertaining to the period of Nicaraguan history in the mid-19th century known as The National War (La Guerra Nacional); a collection of documents on the Spanish conquest of Nicaragua, focusing specifically on the period between 1503 and 1550; copies of the 100 magazines of the Revista Conservadora, published in the 1960's; and the collection of the Law Codes of Nicaragua beginning in 1821 (Independence) through 1888.
HAPI Online
Citations to articles on Latin America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the US-Mexico border region, and Latinos in the U.S.; excellent resource for human rights research (some full-text links otherwise check Orbis and Morris for journal titles) - English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German (Yale access only)
Information Exchange Network for Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matter and Extradition
A virtual library which provides legal information related to mutual assistance and extradition for the 34 OAS member states
InterAm Database
Database of the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade; find laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for twenty-five Latin American countries in Spanish; many English translations (Yale access only).
LANIC
Latin American Network Information Center - a multidisciplinary portal to websites and resources all over Latin America, including a category for legal resources with regional and country-specific links.
LAPOP
The open-access Latin American Public Opinion Project surveys and analyzes citizen views on system support, political tolerance, citizen participation, local government, corruption, and views on authoritarianism have been conducted and are now being archived for many Latin American countries plus Albania, Israel, Madagascar, Canada and the United States; datasets are available for Yale affiliates (Yale access only)
Latin American Collection
Guide to the Latin American Collection at Yale University; the Subject Guides are especially helpful
Latin American Journals and Serials
This is a work-in-progress website that currently contains all the holdings at Yale Law Library and will soon contain the holdings of other law libraries with Latin American collections; this is not a searchable database but merely a list of titles linked to the catalog.
Latin Laws -- Biblioteca Legal Latinoamericana
An invaluable portal to finding recent laws, decrees, and codes from all over Latin America, in the vernacular; also includes a regional section which contains treaties, conventions, reports and useful information for the Latin American region as a whole (requires free registration to view country-specific information).
Latinobarómetro
An annual public opinion survey that involves some 19,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 400 million inhabitants, focusing on the development of democracy, economies, and societies (Yale access only).
Political Database of the Americas
Georgetown Center for Latin America Studies - links to government information in countries in the Americas.
SciELO
Scientific Electronic Library Online: Mostly scientific journals with a few but growing number of legal titles; consolidates Iberian and Latin American journals in an open-access, full-text database; searchable in English, Spanish and Portugese, by subject, author, keyword, or browse each journal.
vLex Global
World-wide legal database containing legislation, jurisprudence, commentary, forms, legal news, and more from many countries (extensiveness of each collection varies) including Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile (Search in English or the vernacular; materials in the vernacular with some translation capabilities) (Yale access only).
- Multijurisdictional
- Treaties
- United Nations
- International Tribunals
- Human Rights
- Environment & Energy
- Business, Investment, Labor, Trade & Tax
- Regional Harmonization
Africa Action
The oldest human rights organization focused exclusively on Africa. Find a variety of documents and positions papers from the oldest organization in the U.S. working on African affairs whose mission is to change U.S.-Africa relations to promote political, economic and social justice in Africa.
African Human Rights Law Reports (2000 - )
Search the fully-indexed reporters for legal decisions of relevance to human rights law in Africa; include selected domestic decisions from the continent, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the United Nations treaty bodies dealing with African countries
African Human Rights Resource Center
Find African human rights instruments and related documents from the University of Minnesota Human Rights library
Amnesty International
Search the Human Rights Reports by country and Library archives for most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date
ASIL's Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
Includes guides for Human Rights, International Commercial Arbitration, International Criminal Law, International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, International Intellectual Property Law, International Organizations, Private International Law, Treaties, and United Nations.
Atrocities & Genocides
Yale 2006 conference presentation of internet resources on genocide research in ten countries
Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)
Includes 2,500 organizations around the world working in partnership to strengthen international cooperation with the ICC; ensure that the Court is fair, effective and independent; make justice both visible and universal; and advance stronger national laws that deliver justice to victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
Crisis in Darfur
In collaboration with Google Earth, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has brought together compelling visual evidence of the destruction in Darfur
EQUAL-JUS Database
The EQUAL-JUS database, part of the EQUAL-JUS project (the European network for the support of LGBT rights), contains legal documents and references related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Eyes on Darfur
Amnesty International leverages the power of high-resolution satellite imagery to provide evidence of the atrocities being committed in Darfur
For the Record
Search for UN human rights documents by year (1997-2003) and by country
Human Rights Internet
Portal to search for human rights organizations, documents, and other information available online
Human Rights Library
Minnesota's premier and comprehensive searchable collection of human rights documents and information, including treaties and links to organizations
Human Rights Treaties
Chronological list of human rights treaties from The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Human Rights Watch
NGO - Publications include an annual world report and other reports by theme and region; reports on country conditions; most available on line as well
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Cases and reports of the Commission, headquartered in Washington DC, created in 1959 as an autonomous body of the OAS that provides recourse to individuals who have suffered human rights violations - English, Spanish, French and Portuguese
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Decisions, provisional measures, compliance reports, and advisory opinions of the Court, the autonomous judicial body of the OAS, established in 1979 and headquartered in San José, Costa Rica; great collection of human rights instruments- English and Spanish
International Affairs Resources
Elizabethtown - Internet directory of international affairs, relations, studies, news, etc.
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Established by Treaty (Rome Statute), official database with information on current cases and proceedings - English and French; also find Legal Tools, an extraordinary electronic library/database on international criminal law and justice comprising over 40,000 documents, together with four legal research and reference tools developed by lawyers with expertise in international criminal law and justice*
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
Find cases, transcripts, minutes, news, reports, basic documents related to the ICTR - English, French, Rwandan
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Find ICTY cases and judgments, reports, and basic documents - English, French, Macedonian, Albanian
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Find labor conventions, recommendations and standards, including ILOLOEX (searchable database on labor standards) and NATLEX (searchable database of national labor, social security and related human rights legislation)
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Searchable library catalogue and articles database; full-text Yearbook of United Nations Law (Vol.1 1997-current); many full-text articles in the Electronic Journals Library
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Find news and events, publications, international law and human rights insturments, and a searchable database for human rights documents of the OHCHR's Charter or treaty-based bodies; click on "Countries," then "Human Rights in World" - select a region and find valuable reports
Project Diana
Yale project - find full-text of core human rights decisions and documents
Representing Children Worldwide (RCW)
Created by the Yale RCW clinic - contains child protective and custody law for every U.S. state and every country as of 2005.
Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Find the TRC final and popular reports, images, video testimony, national vision for Sierra Leone, research data, legal resources, bibliography, and extensive links.
SIM Documentation Site
Collection of human rights open-access databases allowing access to human rights documents, case law, and other legal materials
South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission, Videotape Collection
Yale Artemis Project - watch streaming video of news broadcasts assembled by journalist Max Du Preez, covering the history and activities of the Commission
Special Court for Sierra Leone (SC-SL)
Created jointly by Sierra Leone government and UN - Find extensive documents including indictments, transcripts, judgments, daily journals, audio and video of the trials, and more
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, established by UN General Assembly, is mandated to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide; hosts the powerful RefWorld database, a collection of reports relating to situations in countries of origin, policy documents and positions, and documents relating to international and national legal frameworks; take note of the publication entitled "State of the World's Refugees"
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
An independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress whose goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide; includes a library with digital collections including peace agreements, terrorism/counter-terrorism resources, and afghan oral histories, as well as library catalog with full-text USIP Special Reports and Peaceworks
B'tselem Information Sheets
Monthly B’tselem bulletin of the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories; website includes other publications
Courier
World politics and international relations; published quarterly by the Stanley Foundation, whose website contains many more on-line, open-access publications.
Forum
Quarterly newsletter of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran & Turkey, "an independent regional network of economists, policymakers, and business"
Human Rights Watch
NGO - Publications include an annual world report and other reports by theme and region; reports on country conditions; most available on line as well
Novedades
This monthly publication by the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade compliments our InterAm database
Pinheiro Neto Advogados
This Brazilian law firm's Legal Letter contains updates on Brazilian legislation and business practices; this and other publications available in the firm's virtual library; website also in English.
Policy Dialogue Brief
"Critical thinking from Stanley Foundation conferences;" published irregularly by the Stanley Foundation, whose website contains many more on-line, open-access publications; world politics
The United States Institute of Peace Journal
USIP is "an independent institution established by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote peaceful resolution of international conflicts;" the print journal we have was published six times per year from 1990 - 1994; it is not available on-line. The USIP website includes many more on-line, open access journals
WTO Press Releases
Irregularly published news releases by the WTO, whose website contains WTO documents and many more on-line, open-access WTO publications
CISG and International Commercial Law Database
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is the uniform international sales law of countries that account for two-thirds of all world trade. As a service to the world trade community, the Pace University School of Law offers an annotated electronic library on the CISG on the World-Wide Web.
Global Arbitration Review
One of the leading sources of information for international arbitration professionals, our subscription includes access to the digital GAR journal; the GAR website also provides news, surveys, and interviews (Yale network access only).
Keesing's
Keesing's was founded in 1931 with the intention of creating a lasting archive of original, accurate, and objective articles on the world's political, social, and economic events. Our team of experienced news writers and editors (based in Cambridge, UK) create a series of concise, clear articles which we publish every month, providing our readers with a digestible but detailed summary of global news.
Kluwer Arbitration
Kluwer Arbitration offers worldwide coverage of commercial and investment arbitration; includes case law, commentary, conventions, legislation and rules.
Transnational Dispute Management
TDM is an international commercial arbitration legal and regulatory journal (articles, studies, newsletter) and database (Knowledgebank - modern energy laws, arbitral awards, treaties, voluntary guidelines). You can also join the OGEMID (oil, gas, energy, mining, infrastructure) listserv and browse its archives.*
World News Connection
Monitor non-U.S. media sources; material provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC); analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials - Yale access only






