Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL) is a database of peer-reviewed reports of international law cases, published by Oxford University Press.  Some of the reports come with scholarly commentary and each is linked to a citator.

Access

ORIL is available onsite and offsite to academic members of the Library. For more information about remote access to databases, click here.

Content

ORIL consists of five modules:

•  International Courts of General Jurisdiction:  cases from the International Court of Justice, Permanent Court of International Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and Permanent Court of Arbitration.

• International Criminal Law:   cases from the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal and the Special Court for Sierra Leone

•  International Human Rights Law:  cases from the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and several UN committees.  

• International Investment Claims: aims to cover all publicly available awards and decisions in international investment arbitration cases, together with enforcement or review decisions from national courts. Includes cases from ICSID, the ICC International Court of Arbitration and many other arbitral bodies.

• International Law in Domestic Courts:  international law cases from more than 70 different jurisdictions, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Where the judgment is not in English, key passages are translated.

Each case on ORIL is linked to the Oxford Law Citator, which gives parallel citations, lists earlier or subsequent stages of the case and provides details of instruments or cases cited in the decision, or citing it.

Browsing

The reports can be browsed by subject, date or module, and by individual jurisdiction within a module.

Searching

Quick and Advanced search facilities are available. Quick search covers all five modules; in Advanced search it is possible to select one or more modules.

Printing, downloading and emailing

The Print button is used for both downloading and printing. It displays a pdf version of the article, which can either be downloaded or printed using the appropriate Acrobat icons. 

Reports from the database can also be emailed, using the Email link adjacent to the Print button.

Help

Help pages and FAQs are available via links at the top of the screen.