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A guide of useful links to databases and scholarly web sites in support of research in international relations.
Last update: Nov 17th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.usc.edu/international_relations  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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United Nations

Databases/Documents Collections

Legal Structure

Charter-based bodies

Treaty-based bodies

There are eight human rights treaty bodies that monitor the implementation of the core international human rights treaties:

Other important United Nations agencies concerned with law and human rights:

 
 

Legal Databases

The following databases access legal research.

  • British and Irish Legal Information Institute -- a full-text database of British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
  • HeinOnline -- full text access to digitized content of major legal periodicals, the Federal Register, and other law-related materials.
  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals -- a multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide.. The database covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
  • LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe -- a database that includes full text access to law review journals, federal and state case law, European Union Cases, and the complete contents of the International Legal Materials publication from the American Society of International Law.
  • Martinus Nijhoff Online -- a database indexing the book content of Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, a leading publisher of imprints in international law and human rights law. Use the database to locate titles that can then be searched in the HOMER catalog or the Law Library's catalog, ADVOCAT.
  • World Legal Information Institute [WorldLII] Database --  an open access database of Internet-accessible legislation, constitutions, statutes, case law, superior or high court decisions, journals, treaties, law reform, domain name decisions, secondary materials, and related legal material from around the globe.
 

International Environmental Law

 

Treaties

Listed below are open access databases that provide links and texts to treaties and foreign law.

  • Flare Index to Treaties -- a searchable database of basic information on over 1,500 of the most significant multilateral treaties from 1856 to the present, with details of where the full text of each treaty may be obtained in paper and, if available, electronic form on the Internet.
  • Global Legal Information Network --a database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
  • GlobaLex -- comprehensive and specific research guides with links to sources in the areas of International, Comparative and Foreign Law.
  • The Multilaterals Project -- an ongoing project to make available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.
  • United Nations Treaty Series  -- a full-text database for the United Nations Treaty Collection.
  • United States Treaties Search -- this database contains US treaties on THOMAS, the legislative information site. Complete coverage begins with the 94th Congress. Older treaties are included if they were pending in 1975 when the database was created.
  • World Intellectual Property Association Administrated Treaties -- includes links below provide detailed information on all 24 treaties administered by WIPO including the WIPO Convention
 

International Courts and Tribunals

Listed below are standing institutions intended to settle disputes between sovereign States through binding decisions based on international law:

Criminal Bodies

Organizations

Regional Bodies

Africa

Americas

Arbitration

Europe

 
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