International Law

GlobaLex

GlobaLex is a large collection of legal research guides covering foreign and international law, published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. It is aimed at legal academics, practitioners and librarians. The guides are organised under the following headings: International Law Research; Comparative Law Research; Foreign Law Research; and Tools for Building Foreign, Comparative and International Law Collections. They provide commentary and background information as well as links to key web resources.

Opinio Juris

Opinio Juris is a blog devoted to international law and international relations. Its posts seek 'to describe and analyse international law where it is most controversial and ambiguous.' It was established in 2005 by Chris Borgen of St. John's University Law School, Peggy McGuinness of the University of Missouri Law School and Julian Ku of Hofstra Law School; since 2018 it has been run in partnership with the International Commission of Jurists. The blog can be browsed by region or by topic. 

World Jurist Association

The World Jurist Association (WJA) is a US-based non-governmental organisation, founded in 1963 to provide a forum for lawyers, judges and academics seeking to promote the rule of law worldwide. The website gives information about the work of the Association, events, membership and internships. The Publications section lists WJA conference papers ("WorkPapers"), which can be ordered for a small fee; it also provides contents lists and abstracts for the Association's journal, Law/Technology (volume 36 onwards).

FLARE Foreign Official Government Gazettes

FLARE is a searchable database of foreign official government gazettes developed by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) to provide bibliographic and source information (including details of print holdings in UK libraries and links to online versions) for foreign gazettes. Gazettes can be searched by title, country, region, publisher or location. Links are given to digitised versions and location details including classmarks for print copies.

International Portal of the University of Alicante on Intellectual Property and Information Society

This website is produced by the Law Faculty of the University of Alicante in Spain. It covers industrial and intellectual property law and the information society and is aimed at researchers, students, and professionals. The site provides a database of national, international and European Union legislation (in the original language) and a set of links to other relevant websites.

Open Society Justice Initiative

The Open Society Justice Initiative is a programme of the Open Society Institute, a private foundation established by the philanthropist George Soros in 1993. It is concerned with the promotion of law reform, the protection human rights and the development of international law. The site gives details of current and past activities, covering areas such as national criminal justice reform, international justice, freedom of information and expression, equality and citizenship, anti-corruption and development of legal capacity.

CVCE (Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe)

The CVCE website brings together resources relating to the history of European integration. Based at the University of Luxembourg, the CVCE website covers key events in the history of Europe and the development of the European Union, Western European Union, Council of Europe, European Free Trade Association and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Primary source documents, treaties, papers, cartoons, photographs and multimedia clips are provided. The section "ENA and Education" includes online textbooks, courses and lectures.

vLex Justis

Website of vLex Justis a subscription service providing online legal information including legislation, case law, administrative materials, books, journals and legal news. Content covers the United Kingdom, United States, international law and a wide range of other jurisdictions.

Forwarderlaw

Forwarderlaw is a network of lawyers specialising in freight forwarding. The website is aimed at the freight forwarding industry. There are details about members and a collection of free articles and case commentaries covering related topics such as carriage by air, rail, road and sea, insurance and conflict of laws. 

Biological Weapons Convention: Collection of National Implementation Legislation

Collection of information about national legislation implementing the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The information is compiled by VERTIC, a non-governmental organisation specialising in the verification and monitoring of international agreements. The collection consists of an alphabetical list of countries; for each, it gives details of relevant laws, with the full text where available.

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