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Limited Area Search Engines, Major Portals, Key Directories, and Guides
Other Principal Sources of Information

Limited Area Search Engines, Major Portals, Key Directories, and Guides

Limited Area Search Engines

Australasian Legal Information Institute-- Search engine for Australian and world law.

Law Crawler-- Specialized search engine for worldwide, regional, or country legal web and databases searches, from FindLaw.

LawRunner-- "Intelligent agent-based front-end interface for the world's largest and best World Wide Web index, Google."  Also has "a directory of the LawRunner home pages for every nation in the world."

Major Portals, Key Directories, and Guides

Audiovisual Library of International Law-- From the United Nations, "a unique, multimedia resource... to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number of recipients on a global level." Composed of the Historic Archives of documents and audiovisual materials, a recorded Lecture Series, and a Research Library "providing an on-line international law library with links to treaties, jurisprudence, publications and documents, scholarly writings and research guides."

CataLaw-- Master catalog of catalogs of law on the Internet, including international topics. Arranges all legal and government indices into a uniform and universal metaindex.

ECOLEX: A Gateway to Environmental Law-- From the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Conservation Union, several large databases of national and international legal instruments and materials related to environmental management, searchable by subject area, keyword, country, or date.

Electronic Information System for International Law-- From the American Society of International Law, an excellent database with sophisticated search capabilities to find primary documents, recommended websites, and research guides in the principal areas of international law.

EUR-Lex-- The searchable portal of the European Union for European Union Law, including the Official Journal of the European Union.

FindLaw: Foreign & International Legal Resources-- One of the better starting points for searching international legal information on the Internet.

Frederick K. Cox International Law Center War Crimes Research Portal-- From the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, a fine portal that links websites related to international humanitarian law, posts the text of research memoranda on issues before the International Criminal Tribunal, provides a research guide to international humanitarian law and tribunals, and posts analytical articles on key topics in international criminal law.

GlobaLex-- "Electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law [and] committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world." Excellent source for guides to country or topic-focused research in international, comparative, or foreign law. Note the Global Research Tools and Working Papers section.

Global Legal Information Network-- From the Law Library of the U.S. Congress, "a [searchable] public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations." The Guide to Law Online is "an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online."  The Global Legal Monitor, "an electronic publication of the Law Library of Congress, is intended for those who have an interest in legal developments from around the world." The Multinational Collections Database "lists items which reprint the laws and regulations of international jurisdictions on a particular legal topic, comparative in nature."

Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law-- From the American Society of International Law, a really excellent discussion, with annotated links, of how to access the best resources that are freely accessible on the web, by topic and generally.

Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases-- Excellent, by Mirela Roznovschi, Reference Librarian for International and Foreign Law at the NYU School of Law Library.

ILS Reference Guides-- From the Harvard Law School Library, a thorough guide to research on all aspects of international law through all the relevant media, including online sources. Also see their International, Foreign, and Comparative Research Guides.

infolaw--Gateway to the UK Legal Web-- Includes website listings of all UK law firms, groups, barristers chambers, law associations, and other lawyers, many selected legal resources, and more.

International Law Site of the United Nations-- Information on the law generally, and as it relates to genocide, trade, the sea, key international treaties, the International Criminal Court, and U. N. legal bodies, including the ICJ. Note the International Law Research Guide for U.N. matters and the website of the International Law Commission of the UN.

Intute: Law-- Fine source from the United Kingdom, "provides guidance and access to global legal information resources on the Internet. The service aims to identify and evaluate legal resource sites offering primary and secondary materials and other items of legal interest. Descriptive records and links are created for legal service sites and specific documents."

Jurist: The Legal Education Network-- From the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, an excellent legal affairs portal, with an international section. Note the Terrorism Law and Policy section, a compendium of materials, news, and links on this topic.

RAVE-- "Data base that covers recent publications (articles and decisions) in public international law and European law by listing them systematically and providing their citations. It is characterized by a detailed structure, by being up-to-date and by covering a high number of widely available legal Services." Hyperlinks to online sources are provided.

Selected Foreign & International Resources for the Legal Researcher-- By the Cornell Law Library, this is a large and excellent selective guide to Web sites, providing links to texts of laws and court decisions, international documents, directories, trade information, and/or statistics.

World Legal Information Institute-- "Free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively by [many] legal information institutes and other organisations," with databases and website catalog guide for online law research.

Other Principal Sources of Information

American Society of International Law-- The professional society for those interested in international law. Excellent online information and publications, with a searchable database. Note their Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, a really excellent discussion, with annotated links, of how to access the best resources that are freely accessible on the web, by topic and generally. The ASIL's Electronic Information System for International Law is an excellent database with sophisticated search capabilities to find primary documents, recommended websites, and research guides in the principal areas of international law.

Constitution Finder-- From the University of Richmond, "this database offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are linked to their constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet."

European Environmental Law Homepage-- Full text cases, legislation, dossiers, articles, and other materials on European environmental law.

International Commission of Jurists-- A leading organization of eminent jurists representative of the different legal systems of the world and "dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights." Note the ICJ Legal Resource Center, "a searchable database of the ICJ's press releases, reports, legal documents and key external legal materials."

International Court of Justice-- Information from and about the world court, an organ of the United Nations.

International Criminal Court-- Official site of this United Nations court established in mid-2002 to try individuals for participation in war crimes and genocide.

International Humanitarian Law Database-- Keyword and country searches in treaties, documents, national laws, commentaries, and reports, from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

International Water Law Project-- Provides information and links on international water law, treaties, policy, and related topics, with documents, case law, and bibliography.

Multilaterals Project-- The  Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy's ongoing project  to make available on the Web the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.

OceanLaw Website-- "Contains leading resources on international fisheries law, policy and management and a discussion/mailing list on ocean affairs," plus law of the sea material. Rich guide to international fisheries and marine mammal law and related conservation, management, and law of the sea issues, with a large collection of primary materials (such as legislation, treaties, and cases) and much secondary information. Includes the Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law.

Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database-- Focuses on international water conflicts and negotiations, with a searchable database of abstracts and texts of scores of water-related treaties, case studies of international water conflict resolution, news files, bibliographies, maps, and a digitized inventory of international watersheds. The aim is to aid in the assessment of the process of water conflict prevention and resolution. From Oregon State University.

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