Resources Guide for CJIL:
International Law, International Relations, Foreign Law
Reference Librarians
Research Guides
- D'Angelo Law Library: International Law Research Guide
- D'Angelo Law Library: European Union Law Research Guide
- D'Angelo Law Library: Foreign Law Research Guide
- D'Angelo Law Library: Climate Change Research
- Guide to Electronic Resources on International Law (ERG from ASIL; includes narrative research guides for major public and private international law topics such as international human rights, international humanitarian law, international commercial arbitration, international criminal law, international economic law (WTO), European Union, 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)
- Reynolds & Flores' Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World (information about foreign legal systems, sources of primary law, basic codes - civil, civil procedure, criminal, criminal procedure, commercial - constitutions, case reports, legislation, English translations, and foreign law by topic; includes web links)
- Mary Rumsey's Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law
- Marci Hoffman & Robert C. Berring's International Legal Research in a Nutshell (companion website)
ICJ Statute, Art. 38(1)
1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply:
a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states;
b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law;
c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations;
d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law.
Abbreviations Lists, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Citation Manuals
Databases & Discovery Tools
- Law Databases: Foreign and International
- Catalogs (Lens (see e.g. L. (Lasso) Oppenheim, International Law: A Treatise - full text via HathiTrust), Library Catalog, WorldCat, COPAC (UK), AMICUS (Canada), BNF (France), KVK (Germany), etc.)
- Westlaw (JLR & TP-ALL databases); LexisNexis (law journals library); HeinOnline
- JSTOR (law and non-law topics)
- Journal indexes/abstracting services (Sociological Abstracts, IBZ, FRANCIS, CAIRN, Sabinet Online, GBV) - use Database Finder
- Google Books; Google Scholar; Google Web
- Peace Palace Library Catalogue (and e-alert service) - IL & IL books, book chapters, journal articles index
- HeinOnline's Treaties and Agreements Library - United States treaties and other international agreements as published in U.S.T., T.I.A.S., Bevans, I.L.M., and related commentary, and other secondary resources.
- HeinOnline's United Nations International Law Collection - GET or FIND PDF of treaties published in the United Nations Treaty Series (U.N.T.S.); IL jurisprudence
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 (R.I.A.A.), etc.)
- United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) - Research Library (treaties, jurisprudence, publications & documents, scholarly writings & readings); Historical Archives (conventions/treaties, introduction, procedural history, documents (including preparatory works/travaux preparatoires); Lecture Series (videos with related documents)
- Justis' International Law Reports (I.L.R.) - public international law cases, international and domestic courts, in English.
- Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL)
- Recueil des cours = Collected Courses (Hague Academy of International Law)
- 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)
- 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 beginning; AccessUN indexes UN documents from 1944 to date; see also the UN Treaty Collection.
- HeinOnline's World Trials Library (includes multivolume Nuremberg war crime trials sets)
Introductory Works
- Hornbooks & Study Aids: International Law , European Union Law, Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights, International Environmental Law, International Finance, International Intellectual Property, International Litigation and Arbitration, International Taxation, International Trade
- Restatement of the Law, Third, The Foreign Relations of the United States (via HeinOnline's ALI Library - at the bottom; also online in Westlaw/LexisNexis)
- Thomas Buergenthal & Sean D. Murphy, Public International Law in a Nutshell
- David J. Bederman, International Law Frameworks (Concepts and Insights)
- Sean D. Murphy, Principles of International Law (Concise Hornbooks)
- Foundations of International Law and Politics (Oona A. Hathaway & Harold Hongju Koh)
Treaties
United Nations Documents
Jurisprudence
- ICJ Reports (PDF via HeinOnline)
- European Court of Human Rights (decisions, reports, and judgments via the ECHR's HUDOC database - in PDF and Word)
- European Human Rights Reports (EHRR via Westlaw; unofficial; no PDF)
- Reports of International Arbitral Awards (R.I.A.A.)(PDF via HeinOnline)(via the UN)
European Union Law
International Law and International Relations Journals
Top International Law Journals
source: Washington & Lee Law Library
- American Journal of International Law
- Virginia Journal of International Law
- Harvard International Law Journal
- Columbia Journal of Transnational Law
- Chicago Journal of International Law
- Michigan Journal of International Law
- American University International Law Review
- Yale Journal of International Law
- Fordham International Law Journal
- University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Berkeley Journal of International Law
- Cornell International Law Journal
Top International Relations Journals
- International Organization (IO)
- International Affairs
- International Security
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
Full Texts of International Law Journals
International Law Working Papers
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)
- European Law: EU Law
- Human Rights & the Global Economy
- Immigration, Refugee & Citizenship Law
- Indigenous Nations & Peoples Law
- International Economic Law
- International Employment & Labor Law
- International Law & Trade (archives)
- International, Transnational & Comparative Criminal Law
- Law & Society: International & Comparative Law
- Law, Institutions & Development
- National Security & Foreign Relations Law
- Public International Law
- Tax Law: International & Comparative Tax
- Women, Gender & the Law (includes articles on women's rights as human rights)
Berkely Electronic Press Legal Repository (bepress working papers and e-journals)
Preemption Check Checklist
Indexes
- 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.)
International Law Blogs
Law Blogs (Blawgs)
Search Law Blog Posts
International Law News & Case Summaries
- BNA (international environment, intellectual property, WTO, trade, etc. e-alerts)
- WESTLAW & LexisNexis (includes foreign news sources such as El Pais)
- Factiva (foreign news sources)
- JURISTnews
- Twitter
- 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.
- 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
Librarian Contacts
- 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)
- Subject Research Guides: A-Z; Librarians at Regenstein (Jeffry Archer, Paul Belloni, and Greg Fleming - Business and Economics Reference; Frank Conaway - International Relations, Political Science, History, Social Science); bibliographers for African, East Asian, Middle East, South Asian studies. Librarians at Crerar (for health, biomedical ethics, and human rights; international environmental policy).
