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NATIONS INTERNATIONAL COURTS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TREATIES FOREIGN COUNTRIES HUMAN RIGHTS EUROPEAN UNION INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL LAW OTHER USEFUL SITES |
United Nations Home Page User-friendly starting point to access materials from U.N. organs; Press releases and Daily Highlights; Many documents and resolutions.
Official Web Site Locator for the U.N. System of Organizations Listing of all U.N. organizations with their city locations, other information.
U.N. Information Services (From UNDCP). Nicely organized collection of links to U.N. sites.
United
Nations Documentation: Research Guide Good explanation of
U.N.
documents.
Selected UN Organizations:
UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Org. (UNESCO)
UN
Industrial Development Org. (UNIDO)
International Court of Justice (World Court) Home page; Decisions; List of pending cases; background information and documents.
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Tribunal cases; Basic documents; Press releases.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Decisions, documents, rules of procedure.
International Criminal Court Official U.N. site; Documents on establishment of court; Material from Rome Conference.
Coalition for an International Criminal Court (CICC) Primary non-governmental organization to monitor creation of an international criminal court; Documents and other types of information.
European
Court of Justice Includes case-law of the Court
and the Court of First Instance, texts of proceedings, notes for
guidance of counselor.
European Court of Human Rights General Information, Basic Tests, Judgments.
Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Official site. Includes opinions, and other publications. Some material in Spanish only.
Directory of Organizations (From Northwestern University). Extensive listing of organizations. Click on initial letter of organization searched for.
Selective Listing of International Organizations:
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
International
Labor Organization (ILO)
IMF
International Monetary Fund
International
Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International
Telecommunication Union (ITU)
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Economic
statistics and Indicators; Statistics on many areas, including
Agriculture,
Health, Transport, etc.
Organization
for Security and Coopeation in Europe (OSCE)
Documents;
Information on Membership and Negotiating Bodies.
Organization
of African Unity (OAU)
World
Bank
- World
Food
Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organization
(WHO)
- World
Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO)
World
Trade Organization (WTO)
United Nations
Treaty Collection
Consortium for International Earth Sciences Information Network (Ciesin). Environmental treaties and national resource indicators.
European Treaty Series (Council of Europe). Conventions and Agreements prepared under the auspices of the Council.
Hague Conventions on Private International Law (Hague Conference on Private International law). Home Page. Texts of conventions, status reports, overview of ratifications and signatories.
Income Tax Treaties (Internal Revenue Service).
Go to "Income Tax Treaties" on left side of screen.
Multilaterals Project ( Fletcher School of Diplomacy). Major site for multilateral treaties. Organized by subject; also searchable by key-words.
Intellectual Property Treaties (World IP Organization).
Private
Law Conventions (U.S. Dept. of State). Private International
Law Conventions to which U.S. is a party. Arranged under
headings
Trade/Business Transaction Law; International Judicial Assistance;
Wills,
Trusts and Estates; Family Law.
COMPREHENSIVE SITES. The sites listed below provide links to legislation, cases, codes, constitutions, government agencies, etc. for many countries. For very selective listing of Legislation, Cases, and Codes by Country, see section immediately following this.
Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute. Constitutions, judicial decisions, etc. for many countries.
ForInt-Law ( Washburn University). Comprehensive site for much international and foreign legal information.
GLIN-Global Legal Information Network (Library of Congress). Links to governments and laws of other countries.
Governments on the WWW (Gunnar Anzinger). Well-organized site. Geographic and subject categories.
Constitution Finder (University of Richmond). Constitutions of many countries.
Political Database of the Americas
(Georgetown University) Links to constitutions of 35 countries,
some in translation; also links to departments of the branches of
government, institutions, political parties, information on elections,
etc.
GlobalCourts (Moss District Court, Norway). Links to Supreme Court sites of many countries. Some allow access to Supreme Court decisions.
Institute
for Transnational Law. Foreign Law Translations (University of Texas)
Translations of statutes and cases from France, Germany, Italy,
Austria, and Israel in constitutional, administrative, contract and
tort law.
Government
Gazettes on the Web (University of Michigan).
LEGISLATION.
CASES. CODES. BY COUNTRY . (These sites are also
included within the Comprehensive Foreign Countries section above).
AUSTRALIA
Australian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLLI). Legislation and cases on both federal and state level.
CANADA
CANLII.
Statutes and cases on both federal and provincial level.
GERMANY
Federal
Court of Justice (BGH). Includes decisions from January
2000.
German Law Archive.
(Oxford University) Provides translation of selective German cases and
statutes.
Civil Code in
English ( Federal Ministry of Justice).
FRANCE
Text
of official codes.
(In French, Spanish and English, from Legifrance).
Cour
de Cassation. Official site of the highest court. Contains
selected
decisions, annual reports since 1997.
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Legislation (N.Z.
Parliamentary Council Office). Unoffficial versions of New
Zealand statutes and statutory regulations.
UNITED KINGDOM and
IRELAND
British
and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII). Cases and
legislation
for England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
SELECTIVE
LISTING: COUNTRIES, REGIONS, CONTINENTS
AFRICA
Specific
countries
Angola
Official government website.
Madagascar
U.S. Embassy
Namibia
Government sponsored website
Togo
government website.
ASIA
Cambodia - Cambodian Embassy
Hong
Kong - Information on the government, laws, etc. on the Hong
Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.
Taiwan
- Official government information site of the R.O.C.
AUSTRALASIA
Australia
- Government Entrypoint
Australasian
Legal Information Institute (University of New South
Wales
and University of Technology-Sydney). Searchable collection of statutes
and cases for Australia.
New
Zealand - Government homepage.
LANIC
(Univ. of Texas). Links to many Latin American and
Caribbean
countries.
Organization
of American States. Home page.
MIDDLE
EAST
Israel
- Site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it provides
comprehensive
material on the government, laws, court cases, policies.
Jordan - Official government website.
NORTH
AMERICA
Canada
- Official government information page.
British
Columbia Superior Courts - Administrative information and a
searchable
database of 1996-1997 decisions of the Supreme Court and Superior
Court.
HUMAN RIGHTS (Back to index)
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library. Comprehensive site includes: Decisions and Reports of U.N. Human Rights Committee and of other U.N. Human Rights bodies; Treaties; Inter-American Human Rights System; many good links.
Amnesty International. Annual reports on various countries; Links to related sites.
Asian Human Rights Commission.
Human Rights Internet (HRI). Network of human rights organizations; Many documents and guides.
Human Rights Watch. Good site for coverage of breaking news; Also contains World Report and Country Reports. For reports, click on "Publications".
Genocide Watch. Site contains both international instruments and domestic legislation of many countries against genocide.
Prevent Genocide International.
News and Educational Material. Very good for national legislation on
genocide.
Netherlands Institute for
Human Rights (Utrecht School of Law) Its "Library" section
provides texts of some human rights instruments and information
regarding their ratification; its "Case Law" section gives cases from
international criminal tribunals and decisions from UN human rights
treaty bodies.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Texts and commentaries on the four Geneva Conventions; Many other treaties; Basic rules of humanitarian law i in armed conflict; Good for links.
United Nations Research Guide: Human Rights. Good explanation of functions of various U.N. human rights bodies and links to them.
U.S.
Dept. of State Country Reports. Annnual reports on
human
rights in many countries.
Europa. Official server of the EU. Provides accesss to EU Commission, Parliament, Council, Court of Justice, European Central Bank and other bodies. Press releases and documents.
Euro-lex. Text of EU legislation as found in Official Journal; Judgments of European Court of Justice.
European Court of Justice. Cases from 1996.
European Judicial Network (EJN). Covers judicial cooperation in the EU; Schengen treaty protocols and other documents.
Council
of the European Union. Homepage. Information on
fundamental
freedoms in the EU, transparency, common foreign and security policies,
etc.
Research
Resources on European Union
European Union, European Commission (From NYU Law Library). Very good guide and link source.
European Union Information Resources. Thorough guide by the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States.
Jean Monnet Chair (Harvard University). Site includes Jean Monnet Papers on European integration, teaching material on European law and institutions, European Journal of International Law on-line.
Miscellaneous Other EU Sites
Statewatch.
Monitors civil liberties in the EU.
Lex Mercatoria (Cameron May, Pub.) This comprehensive, extensive site on commercial law includes links to important conventions, model rules and regulations, institutions, and writings. It began at the University of Tromso, and was hosted at the University of Norway.
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Primary documents and status information.
U.N. Convention on Contracts for the International Sale Goods (CISG). Excellent site from Pace University School of Law. Includes annotated text, provides case law and commentary for each article of the convention. Lists countries which have adopted the convention and relevant dates. Gives links to other international trade law databases.
UNILEX (UNIDROIT et al.)
Case law on the U.N. Convention on the International Sale of Goods
(CISG) and on the UNIDROIT Principles of International
Commercial Contracts. Contains abstracts, as well as full text of
decisions in original language if available. Also contains
bibliographies for each instrument.
CISG-online.ch Contains some CISG cases and other materials. The focus of the site is on German-speaking countries, i.e. Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
CLOUT (Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts). Abstracts of decisions involving UNCITRAL documents.
UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law). Provides texts of conventions and their status. Also includes UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.
Juris International. Includes International Legal Instruments, Model Clauses and Drafting Guide for Contracts, material on WTO.
International Court of Arbitration of the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce). Includes Rules of Arbitration of the ICC.
Research Guides for International Commercial Law
The following research guides are good sources for locating material in both print and electronic format.
Private Internation Law (Louise Tsang) From American Society of International Law (ASIL). Includes sections on international sale of goods, international commercial arbitation, etc.
Revised Guide to International Trade Law Sources on the Internet (Marci Hoffman)
International Commercial Arbitration (Charlotte L. Bynum)
Update to International Commercial Arbitration: Locating the Resources (Jean M. Wenger)
The sites listed below offer links to many foreign and international law resources.
American Society
for International Law. Electronic Sources. Provides databases
containing links to treaty and other primary sources for specific
topics in
international law, for example, international criminal law,
international economic law, use of force, etc. Also has links to
research guides in many areas of international law.
World Legal Information Institute. Copious array of links to foreign and international sites.
Harvard Law School Library Extensive, comphrehensive listing of links to international and foreign law sites.Law Links--University of Kent School of Law. Links to electronic sources for International Law, Human Rights, European Union, Private International Law, etc. Strong on U.K. sources.
U.S. Dept. of State. Lists ambassadors and other foreign service personnel. Links to pertinent material for many topics, including Arms Control, Business, Labor, Law Enforcement, Terrorism, Trade, etc.