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Foreign & International

Introductory Guides to International Legal Research

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law  (American Society of International Law)
• European Union Research Tools (Delegation of the European Commission to the USA)
• Guide to foreign and international legal databases (NYU Law, Law Library)
• United Nations Documentation : research guide (United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library)

Foreign & International Law Sources | Comprehensive Sites

• EISIL : Electronic Information System for International Law (American Society of International Law)
• FindLaw: International resources
• Foreign & International Law Guide (Cornell Law Library)
• Guide to foreign and international legal databases (NYU Law, Law Library)
• Law by source: Global (Cornell Law School, Legal Information Institute)
• International Law Research (Emory Law, MacMillan Law Library)
• Multinational reference: guide to law online (Law Library of Congress)
• Private international law (U.S. Dept. of State, Office of the Legal Adviser) treaties in force for the U.S., other international instruments, and information on current negotiations and projects covering the private international law of such areas as trade and commerce, finance and banking, trusts and estates, family and children matters, and international judicial assistance
• United Nations: International Law
• Foreign Law and Governments (Emory Law, MacMillan Law Library)

Foreign Law Sources | Constitutions

• Constitution Finder | University of Richmond: constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents
• International Constitutional Law (ICL): provides English translations of and other textual material related to constitutional documents.

Foreign Law Sources | General Sites

• Findlaw: International Resources: countries: resources by jurisdiction
• Foreign governments: constitutions, laws and treaties (Univ. of Michigan Documents Center)
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN): (Law Library of Congress) database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources. Searches can be done by jurisdiction, subject, date, or type of legal instrument, or by a combination of these elements
• Laws of other nations (Internet Law Library, LawGuru.com)
• Nations of the world: guide to law online: nations and associated jurisdictions (Law Library of Congress)

Foreign Law Sources | Foreign Governments

• Directory of Government Gazettes Online (University of Michigan, Documents Center)  Government Gazettes, which are published by federal governments worldwide, are the means through which the government can communicate to officials and the general public.
• Foreign National Governments, IGOs & NGOs (ALA, Government Documents Roundtable, International Documents Taskforce)

Foreign Law Sources | Country Information

• CIA World Factbook
• Background Notes: (U.S. Dept. of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, Office of Electronic Information and Publications) include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
• Country studies (Library of Congress, Federal Research Division)
• embassy.org: embassies located in Washington, D.C.
• Embassies worldwide (Tagish Ltd., U.K.)
• Foreign Consular Offices in the U.S. (U.S. Dept. of State, Office of Protocol)

International Courts

• International Court of Justice
• Germain's International Court of Justice Research Guide
• World Court Digest: reproduction, in a systematic arrangement, of the views on questions of international law which are expressed in the judgements, advisory opinions and orders of the International Court of Justice as well as in the separate opinions of individual judges (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)
• International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• ICTY Court Records:  provides access to all public court records from the first filing made at the Tribunal in 1994 through to today (free registration required)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• Permanent Court of Arbitration

Treaties

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Treaties (American Society of International Law)
• Finding international treaties "cheat sheet" (Leanne Walther, University of Colorado at Boulder, Government Publications Library)
• Researching non-U.S. treaties (Stefanie Weigman, Harvard Law School, International Legal Studies Library / LLRX.com)
• Researching treaty sources: includes links to treaty collections  (University of Minnesota Law Library)
• Researching U.S. treaties and agreements (Marci Hoffman, Georgetown University Law Center, E.B. Williams Law Library / LLRX.com)
• "Treaties and Other International Agreements: The Role of the United States Senate: A Study Prepared for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations" (January 2001)   PDF version | Text version
• Treaties and other international agreements (State University of New York at Buffalo, Arts & Sciences Library)
• Treaties research guide (Duke University, School of Law, Law Library)
• Treaty research (Leanne Walther, University of Colorado at Boulder, Government Publications Library)