International Law

• Afkortingenlijst voor juridische tijdschriften: A free list of European legal abbreviations maintained by K.U. Leuven.
• Avalon Project: Collection of texts in law, history and diplomacy from pre-18th century to the present hosted by Yale University.

• EUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to:

  • the authentic Official Journal of the European Union
  • EU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.)
  • preparatory acts (legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.)
  • EU case-law (judgments, orders, etc.)
  • international agreements
  • EFTA documents
  • summaries of EU legislation, which put legal acts into a policy context, explained in plain language
• Europa (Official website of the European Union): EU information portal providing access to documents produced by various EU institutions. Select the ‘Institutions’ tab for links to EU courts.
• European Judicial Network: in civil and commercial matters. Links to the judicial system of all the member states, with information on the court structure, civil procedure, the legal professions, dispute resolution, etc.
• European Court of Human Rights: Full text of recent judgments and complete list of judgments from 1959.
• Global Legal Information Network (GLIN): A public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
• Global Legal Monitor: An online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide.
• ICNL (International Center for Not-for-Profit Law Library): A searchable directory of legal documents, court cases, reports, and other civil society law resources from countries around the world.
• Jean Monnet Center: A collection of working papers from the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law, established to promote teaching in European integration in particular Law, Economics, Political Science and History.
• International Court of Justice: Includes links to all contentious cases and advisory opinions referred to the Court since 1946, and decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice 1922-46.
• International Law: The United Nations international law page.
• NATLEX: Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO’s International Labour Standards Department.
• UN Treaty Collection: Includes the full text of treaties in the United Nations Treaty Series plus current information on the status of multilateral treaties. European Union.
• WIPO-Lex (World Intellectual Property Organization): WIPO-Lex is an electronic database which provides access to intellectual property (IP) laws and treaties of the Members of WIPO, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the United Nations (UN).
• World Legal Information Institute: The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) – aims to provide free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law. WorldLII has databases from 20 countries in six continents (at present mainly those with a common law tradition): from Australasia (120), Canada (61); Britain and Ireland (27), the Pacific Islands (25), Hong Kong (13) and other countries in Asia and Africa (6). All types of legal databases are included: case law (165), legislation (45), treaties (3), law reform (4), law journals (11), and specialist subject databases. In combination, the LII’s accessible through WorldLII include 240 databases from 43 jurisdictions, with over 50 gigabytes of searchable text.