Law of War

Priv-War

Priv-War was a collaborative project by seven European academic institutions, including the University of Sheffield in the UK, which ran from 2008 to 2011. It was coordinated and hosted by the European University Institute in Italy. The aim of Priv-War was to look at the use of private military companies and security companies in situations of armed conflict and examine national and international regulatory frameworks. The website provides the final recommendations of the Priv-War project, together with press releases and two reports produced during the project.

ASIL Electronic Resource Guide: International Humanitarian Law

Online guide to international humanitarian law (IHL), written by Joan Policastri, Foreign and International Legal Research Specialist at the University of Denver, and Sergio Stone, Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian at Stanford Law School. The guide is part of ASIL's Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law. The authors provide an introduction to the basic materials and concepts of IHL and give links to sites providing primary sources, including treaties, customary law, judgments of international tribunals and domestic courts, and state practice.

Crisis in Darfur: researching the legal issues

Online guide to the legal issues surrounding the Darfur crisis written by Amy Burchfield who is Access and Faculty Services Librarian at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library in the United States. The guide was published in May 2009 (and updated in 2023) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The guide provides background information to the civil conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan and highlights "key online and print resources discussing the legal aspects of the Darfur crisis".

Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts Project

The Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts (RULAC) Project is an initiative of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The aim of the project is to "report on every State and disputed territory in the world, addressing both the legal norms that apply as well as the extent to which they are respected by the relevant actors." The website provides background information to international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law and international refugee law.

Avalon Project : the Laws of War

Part of the Avalon Project at Yale University Law School, providing free access to treaties and agreements concerned with war. The collection starts with the 1856 Declaration of Paris and goes up to the 1970s; it consists mainly of the Geneva Conventions and documentation from the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907. The documents can be browsed chronologically, or searched by key word.

Migration Information Source

Migration Information Source is the online journal of the Migration Policy Institute, an independent think-tank based in Washington, DC. It covers migration, immigration, asylum and refugees and includes news, research, country profiles, statistics and information about US policy. Content can be browsed by date, region or type of material.

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