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ICC Dispute Resolution Library

Party free, partly fee-based collection of information about dispute resolution by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Covers ICC awards, commentaries, rules, reports, videos, information about events and other material. Although much of the content is restricted to subscribers, non-subscribers can use the Advanced Search facility to look up ICC awards and find out where they have been published (this facility used to be known as ‘ICC awards by case number’).

UN-Habitat: Urban Law

This page on the UN-Habitat website provides information on urban law and the work of the Urban Legislation Unit. There is an overview of work of the unit - including UrbanLex, the urban law database - along with news and publications. 

Researching the Right to Housing

Online guide to resources on housing rights written by S M Atia Naznin who is a lecturer at the School of Law, BRAC University, in Bangladesh. The guide was published in 2018 (and updated in 2024) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. The author provides an introduction and links to relevant sections of the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights along with other related international and regional  instruments.

International Humanitarian Law

Online guide to international humanitarian legal resources written by Thamil Venthan Ananthavimayagan who is a lecturer in international law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law at Griffith College, Dublin. The guide was published in 2018 (and updated in 2025) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law.

International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) is the UN institution responsible for dealing with matters that were formerly the responsibility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), both of which have been wound up. The work of the Mechanism includes hearing appeals, enforcing sentences and keeping records. Its website has details of ongoing cases, and a case database with&nb

Nuclear Law Research

Online guide to nuclear law written by Linda Tashbook who is Foreign International Comparative Law Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law's Barco Law Library. The guide was published in 2013 (and updated in 2021) 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 covers international nuclear law and national law in a number of jurisdictions.

DipLawMatic Dialogues

DipLawMatic Dialogues is the official blog of the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries. The blog is intended as a forum for the exchange of ideas for FCIL-SIS members, other law librarians, and anyone with an interest in foreign, comparative and international law or law librarianship. The blog has a simple search function and it is possible to browse by category. The available archives go back to December 2013.

Thematic network on Arctic law

The thematic network on Arctic law is one of the specialist networks of the University of the Arctic (UArctic). UArtic’s members are institutions and organisations with an interest in higher education and research in the Circumpolar North. Its thematic networks aim to foster issues-based cooperation on topical Arctic issues. The network on Arctic law pages contain information on their current, planned and past activities. Past activities include links to annual issues of Current developments in arctic law.

Ask Dag

Ask DAG provides answers to hundreds of frequently-asked questions about the United Nations. The answers are compiled by the staff of the UN’s Dag Hammarskjőld Library. Ask DAG groups questions and answers into these categories: UN Facts, General Assembly, Security Council, Human Rights, Library. It is searchable, or it can be browsed by subject and/or language (English, French and Spanish). There is also a live chat facility.

International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was set up in 1957 and has its headquarters in Vienna. It is a international organisation within the UN System. The IAEA website provides a wide range of information about the role and structure of the agency and details of its programmes and education/training. It also gives full-text access to publications and official documents: nuclear treaties, reports, country factsheets, the IAEA Legal Series, the quarterly IAEA Bulletin and other material, including digitised older titles from around the 1960s onwards.

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