International Law and Human Rights

by Paul Axel-Lute
last revised January 29th, 2008

General Sites

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (American Society of International Law)
Diplomacy Monitor (at St.Thomas Univ. School of Law) (links to press-release-type material)
EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law (American Society of International Law)
Foreign & International Law (Washburn Univ.)
GlobaLex (Hauser Global Law School Program, New York Univ.) Includes research guides on various aspects of international law.
Hague Conference on Private International Law
International Court of Justice (at Cornell) (mirror of ICJ site). The "Decisions" portion of this site provides full text of judgments, orders, and pleadings for the contentious cases from 1971 forward, and for the advisory cases from 1996 forward; for some of the earlier cases there are just summaries of the judgments or advisory opinions, while for some there are no documents posted.
International Judicial Monitor archive of a free bimonthly newsletter
International Law Association
Internet Law Library: Treaties & International Law
Private International Law Database (U.S. Dep't of State)
UNIDROIT (International Institute for Unification of Private Law)
United Nations International Law page
WorldCourts.com. Decisions of Permanent Court of International Justice (1922-1940); and some decisions of Central American Court of Justice (1907-1918) and International Commissions of Inquiry (1904--).

Derechos Human Rights. Site includes extensive legal documentation.
European Court of Human Rights
Human & Constitutional Rights (at Columbia Law School Library)
Human Rights Library (Univ.of Minnesota) (includes caselaw of Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Commission of Human Rights)
Human Rights Watch site includes many background reports.
International Humanitarian Law (Int'l Commission for the Red Cross): includes database of treaties & documents from 1856 forward.
Open Society Justice Initiative "pursues law reform activities grounded in the protection of human rights"; site includes full-text reports.
Project Diana: Online Human Rights Archive at Yale Law School
Refugee Law Center

Center for International Environmental Law
IISD Linkages (International Institute for Sustainable Development)
Internet Resources on Environmental Law (at Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law)

The Laws of War (The Avalon Project at Yale Law School). Includes Geneva and Hague conventions.
Review of Legality of Weapons under International Law (Army Regulation 27-53)
A U.S.-Led War on Iraq: Legal Issues (at Columbia Law School Library)

Multilateral Conventions (Fletcher School)
Peace Agreements Digital Collection (United States Institute of Peace Library)
United Nations Treaty Collection Freely accessible with username: treaties, password: 12345
Treaty Affairs (U.S. Department of State), includes current Treaties in Force, Treaty Actions 1997 to date; and a link to the departmental FOIA search page for access to texts of agreements entered into after 1998.

Foreign Relations of the United States (1861-1960) (Univ. of Wisconsin Digital Collections)