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Codification and Progressive Development of International Law

The Codification Division forms part of the United Nations Office of Legal affairs providing secretariat services, legal advice and preparation of draft texts of conventions and other instruments to the Sixth Committee, the International Law Commission and special committees set up to codify and develop rules of international law on particular topics. The site provides information on the work of these bodies and a searchable database of Codification Division publications.

Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law Blog

The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) blog is produced by staff at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law at Swansea University. The blog provides maritime and commercial legal news covering topics such as admiralty law, arbitration, carriage of goods, charterparties, contract law, law of the sea and trade law. The blog can be searched by topic or date

World Prison Brief

Website of World Prison Brief a database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. The resource is part of the Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research’s (Birkbeck, University of London) World Prison Research Programme. Information is arranged by country and includes contact details of the government department responsible for prisons, figures for the prison population, the percentage of female, foreign and juvenile prisoners and prison population trends.

LawInSport

The LawInSport website is a subscription resource compiled by legal practitioners and academics providing expert analysis, commentary and news on legal developments in sport. There are sections covering anti-corruption, anti-doping, intellectual property, media law and key cases. There are also podcasts, videos and events. Parts of the site are restricted to subscribers only.

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Legacy website of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) which was established by the United Nations Security Council in 1995 to prosecute those responsible for the genocide that took place in Rwanda during 1994. The ICTR closed in 2015. There is background information and a timeline to the genocide. Selected documents relating to each trial, including indictments, judgements and transcripts, are given in PDF.

Peace Palace Library

This international law library supports the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Court of Justice and the Hague Academy of International law, as well as the wider international community. It includes over one million books, both physical and electronic, covering international law (public and private), foreign and comparative law,  and war and peace issues; it is renowned for its Hugo Grotius and Peace Movement collections. The catalogue  has English and French interfaces.

Cambridge Law Eminent Scholars Archive

This archive, maintained by the Squire Law Library, documents the careers of eminent scholars associated with the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Law. Records consist of an interview with the respective scholar, available as a video and as audio only, with a transcript. The interview is accompanied by additional material, such as a bibliography of the scholar’s work, photographs and biographical information. The interviews are in chronological order (commencing in 2005), with a name index.

Bilateral Labor Agreements (BLAs)

This research guide for locating bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) is maintained by the University of Chicago Library. On the Research Strategies page it gives examples of how to find specific BLAs as well as general tips on how to go about locating them. The guide also provides a number of links to key indexes and full-text treaty sources, separated into the categories of: U.S. Treaty Sources, International Treaty Sources, National Treaty Sources, and Labor/Migration Treaty Sources.

Bilateral Labor Agreements Dataset

This dataset, created by a team at the University of Chicago, documents bilateral employment treaties signed between 1945 and 2015 (version 1) and 1945 and 2020 (version 2). The website consists of a graphic showing the number of Bilateral Labor Agreements (BLAs), followed by a short paragraph describing the background of the project, and then information on the dataset, which is freely available to download at the base of the webpage.

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