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International Law: Sources of Law
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Jurisprudence (Case Law)
United Nations Juridical YearbookPart Three - an overview of recent decisions and advisory opinions of international tribunals.
- Locate Cases from specific courts such as:
- International Court of Justice
- World Court Digest - a digest of ICJ cases via the Max Planck Institute
- World Legal Information Institute
- UN Codification Website
- Summaries of Judgments, Advisory Opinions, and Orders of ICJ (1948-2012) via Hein
- International Tribunals and Decisions via Hein
- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights via University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- ECHR: European Court of Human Rights's HUDOC database.
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights: this link sends you to the decisions on the court's website
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights Project: case law database of the Loyola Los Angeles Int'l & Comp. L. Rev.
- International Criminal Court: select situations and cases
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals
- Specialized (topical) databases:
- International Court of Justice
Locate Compilations of Cases
- International Committee for the Red Crossdatabase that tracks national implementation of international law. It includes some case law.
- European Court of Human RightsThe European Court of Human Rights is a supranational or international court established by the European Convention on Human Rights which rules on applications alleging violations of civil and political rights set out by the European Convention on Human Rights.
- OPIL 50 Human Rights Cases You Need to KnowContains landmark human rights cases, each with a brief description and a link to a free article or report on the case. The cases were chosen in conjunction with the editors of the Oxford Reports on International Law. These choices were intended to showcase the variety of international, regional, and national mechanisms and fora for adjudicating human rights claims, and the range of rights that have been recognized.
- Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)The OHCHR offers a database of jurisprudence from U.N. treaty bodies that receive and consider complaints from individuals.
- United Nations High Commissioner of Human RightsThe UNHCR provides case law rganized by country and topic and court interventions by country or topic (court interventions can include amicus curiae, advisory opinions & public statements.
- Lexis Advance International Case Law
Find select foreign and international cases.
- For locating relevant/related European Union case law please consult the European Union Business Law Research Guide
Select Scholarly Commentary
Assessing the Legacy of the ICTY by ISBN: 9789004215641
Consolidated Legal Texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone by ISBN: 9789047431053
Court of Remorse: Inside the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda by ISBN: 9780299236731
The Statute of the International Court of Justice: a Commentary by ISBN: 9780199261772
Research Handbook on International Courts and Tribunals by Call Number: KZ6250 .R47 2017ISBN: 9781781005019Publication Date: 2017-02-24
Conduct Your Own Searches!
- Find books in our library catalog by the subject International Courts or International Court of Justice
- Find books in Oxford Scholarly Authorities in International Law