Restatement of the Law, Third, the Foreign Relations of the United States (on WESTLAW and LexisNexis) at D'Angelo Law, Reserve, XXKF4651.R470 1987
Encyclopedia of Public International Law (EPIL) at D'Angelo Law, Reserve, XXKZ1160.E53 1992
Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) (American Society of International Law; citation information for documents is provided in the "Basic Sources" "more information" sections)
Guide to Electronic Resources on International Law (from ASIL; includes narrative research guides for major public and private international law topics such as 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 the United Nations; the "Introduction to the Guide" includes a guide to researching international law using the Internet)
HeinOnline's Foreign and International Legal Resources Database (FILRD) (includes international law yearbooks and periodicals; digests of U.S. practice of international law (Hackworth, Moore, Wharton, Whiteman., etc.), Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) decisions, Reports of International Arbitral Awards (RIAA), etc.)
HeinOnline's Legal Classics Library (collection of e-Books includes "Classics of International Law" treatises such as Hugo Grotius' On the Law of War and Peace)
Law Databases: Foreign and International
Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS) gives full texts UN documents from about the mid-1990s to date, but all UN resolutions from the very beggining; AccessUN indexes UN documents from 1944 to date; see also the UN Treaty Collection. Note that a United Nations Law Collection library is forthcoming this October via Heinonline. It'll contain the U.N.T.S., ICJ Reports, and other UN law-related yearbooks.
HeinOnline's World Trials Library (includes multivolume Nuremberg war crime trials sets)
Hein-On-Line's U.S. Treaties and Agreements Library
International Legal Materials (also online in WESTLAW and LexisNexis)
D'Angelo Law, Stacks, XXKZ64.A44, v.1 (1962)-present. Predecessor is the Supplement volume to the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), Vols. 1-49 (1907-1955), for older treaties and other international documents:
Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International Instruments
Multilateral Treaties
United Nations Treaty Collection (full text of United Nations Treaty Series (U.N.T.S.) & League of Nations Treay Series (L.N.T.S.) volumes)
AustLII (multilateral treaties to which Australia is a party)
Historical Treaties from Yale's Avalon ProjectStatus, Declarations, etc. (The Treaty "Bible" aka Multilateral Treaties Deposited With the Secretary General; updated through November 2007)
United Nations Law Collection (forthcoming October 2008 via HeinOnline)
This collection will include these key official published documents:
* Complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series,
1946-Current
* Statement of Treaties, 1983-Current
* United Nations International Court of Justice, Reports
of Judgments Advisory Opinions and Orders, 1947-Current
* Report of International Arbitral Awards, 1948-Current
In addition to the above, this library will also contain a
selection of U.N. Yearbooks and other historical documents.
Resolutions (from 1946 to date)
UN Human Rights Documents (Treaty Body document search)
"Categorized Search" enables you to search by UN document symbol--the number that looks like A/CN.4/....
ODS (Official Document System of the United Nations)
WESTLAW and LexisNexis include EU materials
Eur-Lex (EU's law documents page - ECJ cases, directives, regulations,
decisions, treaties, the Official Journal of the EU, etc.)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/
source: Washington & Lee Law Library
WESTLAW and LexisNexis both have full texts of IL/IR journals (U.S., UK, Canada-published; search WESTLAW's INT-TP, JLR, and/or TP-ALL databases)
Hein-On-Line Foreign and International Law Journals
JSTOR Political Science (including International Relations Journals)
EBSCO Academic Search Premier and Business Source Complete
Some IL/IR journals are also e-accessible via Oxford Journals Online and Cambridge Journals Online.
Legal Scholarship Network (LSN, part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) of eJournals containing abstracts and full texts of working papers; subscribe to get via e-mail)
http://www.ssrn.com/lsn/index.html
Berkely Electronic Press Legal Repository (bepress working papers and e-journals)
LegalTrac (under Search By Subject: International Law, can check various topics for subdivisions such as Beliefs, Opinions, and Attitudes; Cases; Evaluation; Ethical Aspects; Forecases and Trends; Influence; Innovations; Public Opinion; Research; Surveys)
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (e-alerts available), Legal Journals Index (UK & European law journals index on WESTLAW as LJI), and Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
PeacePalace Library Catalogue (indexes journal articles, chapters in books, and books; can limit by type of document, date, language, etc.; e-alerts available)
Some of the other non-legal journal indexes are useful for foreign and international legal research such as the Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Public Affairs International, The Web of Science/Knowledge (Social Science Citation Index), and Sociological Abstracts.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) (see also the Political Science page generally. CIAO is a database for foreign affairs and has books, working papers, selected full text journal articles, conference papers, etc.)
Opinio Juris ("a weblog dedicated to reports, commentary, and debate on current developments and scholarship in the fields of international law and politics"; blog posts are keyword searchable and archived chronologically and by categories from November 2004 to present)
International Economic Law and Policy Blog (November 2006-present) (see also the Trade Law News & Reports Blog)
International Law Reporter Blog (scholarship, events, ideas)
Kenneth Anderson's Law of War & Just War Theory Blog
AIDP Blog (international criminal law)
IntLawGrrls (women's voices in international law, policy, practice; February 2007- )
International Law Law Blogs (Justia) (about 40 listed)
Daniel W. Drezner (international relations; posts from September 2002-present)
Law Blogs D'Angelo Law Library
BNA (international environment, intellectual property, WTO, trade, etc. e-alerts)
WESTLAW & LexisNexis
Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT) (news and case summaries; only up-to-date through February 2008?)
ASIL Insights (see also International Law in Brief & IL.post)
ILJ Digest (Harvard International Law Journal)
Mealey's international litigation newsletters, International Law Update (via WESTLAW), Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, UN Wire, UNPulse, Human Rights Brief, the State Department, etc. See Harvard's International Law News: Headlines & Sources.
International Law Conferences (American Society of International Law (ASIL), ABA Section of International Law, International Law Weekend (American Branch of the International Law Association), Association of American Law Schools (AALS), etc.)
Foreign law : current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world / Thomas H. Reynolds, Arturo A. Flores (aka Reynolds & Flores; green 6-volume looseleaf service located behind the Reference Desk)
LexisNexis
Argentina, Australia, Canada, EU, France, Hong Kong, Hungary,
India, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Philippines,
Russia, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, UK; EELEG (Eastern European
Legal Texts in English translation))
WESTLAW
Australia, Canada, EU, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia, UK, INT-EEUROPE (Commercial Laws of Eastern and Central Europe)
GlobaLex (research guides for over 100 countries; also research guides on comparative and international law topics)
LLRX.com (research guides for over 50 countries)
Generally, see:
D'Angelo Law Library: Foreign and International Law
Lyonette Louis-Jacques email (for civil and other non-common law countries--China, France, Germany, Japan, etc.; comparative, and international law/international relations questions; see also the Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Guide)
Bill Schwesig email (for common law/Anglo-American questions--UK, Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, other common law, English-speaking countries around the world)
Ask-A-Law-Librarian (contact us in person and via phone, email, IM, chat)