ASIL Guide to electronic resources for international law

A resource rich narrative to a wide range of materials covering different aspects of international law from an American perspective. It is produced and maintained by the American Society of International Law and has recently added new sections on European Union Law and International Humanitarian Law (October 2009). The guides give a background to the subject and links to other sites which provide full text documents and information about relevant subscription databases.

EISIL: Electronic information system for international law : The purpose of EISIL is to support the ASIL guide. In EISIL the resources are arranged concisely by subject with supporting explanations where required to allow the user quicker access to specific documents.

Globalex

An extensive and regularly updated resource produced by the US Hauser Global Law School Program which provides research tools covering a wide range of topics within international and comparative law. Examples of some of the articles are included in the selection of individual documents in this guide.

Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms (includes protocol amendment of June 2010)

EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

Researching the United Nations Globalex article updated  May/June 2011

How to research "Travaux Préparatoires"   Globalex article updated June 2008

Introduction to sources for treaty research. Globalex article updated Oct 2011

Up-to-date electronic sources with commentary available on Lexis Library and Westlaw databases

United Kingdom Treaty Series and UK Treaties online (available onsite and offsite)

International Legal Materials (Also available on Hein )

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Includes links to full-text of international human rights treaties including status of ratifications, documents of the Human Rights Committee and reports from the Special Rapporteur on violence against women

International Court of Justice Reports

International human rights reports

International law reports

European Court of human rights
Full-text of ECHR judgments via the HUDOC database on the website and information about forthcoming judgments

Council of Europe - human rights directorate
Contains Human rights information bulletin providing useful up-to-date summary of case law and ratifications 4 times a year

Inter-American Court of Human Rights
full-text of selected judgments of the court

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
including full-text judgements of the trial chamber and appeal chamber and indictments and proceedings.

American journal of international law

European journal of international law

Also available on Ingenta

Journal of the history of international law

  Also available on Hein

Leiden journal of international law

Also available on Cambridge Online

Modern law review

Netherlands yearbook of international law

Also available on Cambridge Online

Rivista di diritto internazionale

Yale journal of international law

Also available on Hein