Tag: Legal Research

  • Treaties

    Treaties Resources International Treaties United Nations Treaty Collection: the United Nations Treaty Collection is a full-text database of treaties searchable in various permutations. European Treaty Series: A searchable database of treaties in the European Treaty Series (“ETS”) from the Council of Europe. Organization of American States Treaty Series: A searchable database of treaties sponsored in…

  • International Intellectual Property Law

    International Intellectual Property Law International Instruments (Conventions, Treaties, Protocols, etc.) Treaties Administered by WIPO (from the WIPO Secretariat) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) (from the WTO) WTO-WIPO Cooperation Agreement (from the WTO) Agreements on Cultural Property and Copyright and Neighboring Rights (from UNESCO) Lexis Intellectual Property Treaties (Filename TREATY) Eurasian Patent…

  • International Courts

    International Courts International Courts and Tribunals Corte Centroamericana de Justicia (official website): Includes information about the court and basic documents. European Court of Justice: Proceedings of the Court (weekly). Includes the full-text of recent judgments. International Court of Justice (official website): Access to recent press communiques, important basic documents related to the ICJ, the current…

  • Human Rights

    Human Rights International Instruments (Conventions, Treaties, Protocols, etc.) International Human Rights Instruments (from the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights) Basic Documents Pertaining to Human Rights in the Inter-American System (from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights) Basic Texts of the European Court of Human Rights (from the Council of Europe) Human Rights Treaties…

  • Roman Law

    Roman Law Ius Romanum: Available in English, German, Latin or Italian, this site provides source texts as well as links to additional sources of information related to legal history and classics. Roman Law Library (Alexandr Koptev and Yves Lassard) A valuable site presented in French, English, Spanish and Etruscan which provides the full-text of a…

  • Non-governmental Organizations

    Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs and IGOs) Directories of IGOs International Organizations Directory (from Northwestern University): Links to all organizations–no annotations about site contents. IGO Internet Sites (from Stanford University): Selected major IGOs listed alphabetically and by region.  Also lists print resources. Official Web site Locator for the United Nations System (from the United Nations): Includes related…

  • Islamic Law Guide

    Islamic Law Research Guide Find Articles about Islamic Issues in General Primary Databases ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials (FT): Covers the literature of religion back to 1949. Bibliography of Asian Studies: Covers “principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971”. Extensive coverage of Islam. Historical Abstracts: Covers the…

  • Medieval Law Guide

    European Medieval Research Law Guide Purpose This page serves as a gateway to scholarly resources on the European Middle Ages law only. Many literate cultures flourished at approximately the same time as Medieval Europe — most notably in East Asia (China), South Asia (India), the Muslim World (North Africa and Southwest Asia), and Mesoamerica (modern…

  • Native American Law Guide

    Native American Law Introductory Guide…

  • European Union

    European Union Europa Homepage: Main web server for the EU. English Homepage. Official Publications and Databases Eur-Lex: Official Journal (last 45 days), Treaties, recent Cases, Consolidated Treaties, and Preparatory Acts (COM documents). SCADplus Database: Bibliographic database of legislation, Community publications, periodical articles, and the position of the two sides of industry. Also includes a Calendar…