POLT 226: International Law

Country Information

Europa World Online - for current information on countries and international organizations

Europa World Year Books - for historical information on countries and international organizations
Main Library JN1.E85, 1975 - last year (314 Eu742. for 1959-1974)

American Society for International Law Resources

• Electronic Research Guide (narrative introductions to areas of international law)
• EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law (links to primary documents, organizations and agencies)

Treaties & International Agreements

Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements
Main Reference KZ4968 .O84 2003 vols. 1 - 4

Encyclopedia of Historical Treaties and Alliances
Main Reference KZ 1160 .P48 2001 vols. 1 - 2

The Major International Treaties of the Twentieth Century: A History and Guide with Texts
Main Reference KZ64 .G74 2001 vols. 1 & 2

Security Council Resolutions

UN Treaty Collection

UN Treaty Handbook

[U.S.] Treaties in Force 2013

International Courts & Tribunals

• International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• International Criminal Court (ICC)
• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLoS)
• NAFTA Secretariat
• Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
• Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone
• Special Tribunal for Lebanon
• Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Legal Dictionaries

Handbook of International Law
Main Reference KZ 3410 .A97 2005

International Law Dictionary
Main Reference JX 1226 .B57 1987

Black's Law Dictionary
Main Reference KF156 .B53 2004

Organizations, Think Tanks & Advocacy Groups

• Amnesty International
• Greenpeace
• Human Rights Watch
• International Crisis Group
• IISS: International Institute for Strategic Studies
• Transparency International
• SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Think Tank Search - search the web sites of more than 600 research centers, NGOs, and other organizations

Law Journals

• LegalTrac - subject indexing plus high percentage of full text
• Law Reviews in LexisNexis Academic - all full text

Selected titles

• International Legal Materials
  A full text collection from the American Society for International Law that includes treaties and agreements, judicial and arbitral decisions, national legislation, and international organizations resolutions; also covers news, and U.S. case law and court decisions
• American Journal of International Law
• European Journal of International Law
• International and Comparative Law Quarterly
• Journal of the History of International Law

Databases for Scholarly Articles

• Academic Search Complete
• Business Source Complete
• EconLit
• Environment Complete
• Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies
  
• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
  
• Peace Research Abstracts
• SocIndex
  
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

News Sources

Aggregators:

• Factiva - particularly strong on business & international sources
  • only 3 Oberlin users at a time
• LexisNexis Academic

Tranlations:

• Foreign Broadcast Information Service - FBIS Daily Reports (1941-1996)
  • translations and transcripts of news from around the world
• World News Connection (1996-2013)
  • translations and transcripts of news from around the world

Single Source:

• New York Times (1851-2012)
• Times of London (1785-2010)

Other Resources

• International Law at the United Nations
• UN Documentation Centre - includes resolutions and decisions, meeting records, rules, reports, and more
• EUR-Lex - European Union Law
• Peace Palace Library, The Hague
  • Links to Free Legal Databases suggested by the Peace Palace Library