International Court of Justice

Recueil Des Arrets, Avis Consultatifs et Ordonnances = Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders (Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1947-). French/English. Also on Westlaw and LexisNexis.

Memoires, Plaidoiries et Documents = Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents (Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1947-). Motions, briefs, oral arguments. French/English. 

Yearbook (Hague: The Court, 1947-). Biographies and summaries of court's work. 

World Court Reports (Reprint of the 1934 ed. published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1969). Includes commentary and summaries. 

Case Law of the International Court (Hambro, ed., Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1952-).  Digest of cases. Includes bibliography. 

Documents on the International Court of Justice (3rd ed., Boston: Dordrecht, 1991).

Répertoire de la Jurisprudence de la Cour Internationale de Justice (1947-1992) = Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947-1992) (Dordrecht; London: Martinus Nijhoff).

World Court Digest (Berlin: Springer, 1993-).  Covers 1986-2000 so far. Available on the web site of the Max Planck Institute. Earlier editions are under the title Fontes Iuris Gentium. 

Westlaw (INT-ICJ) and LexisNexis (Legal > Area of Law - By Topic > International Law > Cases).  

Official ICJ web site and the official mirror site at Cornell. This site also offers Germain's International Court Research Guide.

Court of Justice of the European Union

Reports of Cases Before the Court (Luxembourg: Court of Justice of the European Communities, 1959-).

Digest of Case Law Relating to the European Communities (Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1981-). 

LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Web site.

European Court of Human Rights

Publications de la Cour Européenne Des Droits de l'Homme. Série A, Arrêts et Décisions = Publications of the European Court of Human Rights. Series A, Judgments and Decisions (Strasbourg: Greffe de la Cour, Conseil de l'Europe, 1961-1996).

Publications de la Cour Européenne Des Droits de l'Homme. Série B, Mémoires, Plaidoiries et Documents = Publications of the European Court of Human Rights. Series B, Pleadings, Oral Arguments, and Documents (Strasbourg: Greffe de la Cour, Conseil de l'Europe, 1962-1995). Numbered volumes are separately catalogued. 

Recueil Des Arrêts et Décisions = Reports of Judgments and Decisions (Köln: Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1996-). 

European Human Rights Reports (London : European Law Centre Ltd., 1979-). LexisNexis (International Law > Cases > Human Rights Cases). 

European Court of Human Rights Web Site.

Permanent Court of Arbitration

Hague Court Reports (New York: Oxford University Press, 1916-1932).

Reports of International Arbitral Awards (Leyden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1948-). 

Survey of International Arbitrations (3rd ed., Dordrecht: Nijhoff, 1990). 

Wetter, International Arbitral Process: Public and Private (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1979-). 

International Commercial Arbitration (Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1979-).

Répertoire de la Jurisprudence Arbitrale International = Repertory of International Arbitral Jurisprudence (Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1989-[c1991]).

PCA's web site.  Cornell is also a mirror site for this court as well.

Other International Courts and Tribunals

There are several other international courts and tribunals, all of which issue decisions. To locate print versions of judgments from these courts, do an author search on LawCat.

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights

• International Criminal Court

• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Also available on Westlaw.

• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Also available on Westlaw.

• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)

• Iraqi Special Tribunal

• Khmer Rouge Trials

• Khmer Rouge Trial Task Force

• Serious Crimes Unit, East Timor

• Special Court for Sierra Leone

Other Useful Web Sites

These sites provide access to many other international courts and tribunals, as well as other related information.

• Commonwealth and International Human Rights Case Law Databases (Interights)

• Hague Justice Portal (new site)

• International Dispute Settlement section of EISIL.

• International Justice Tribune (UCB only) The International Justice Tribune is an e-journal that covers international criminal justice and publishes investigative articles and interviews about world-wide efforts to try war criminals, from the International Criminal Court to domestic courts. An archive of past articles is also available.

• Project on International Courts and Tribunals (PICT)

• World Courts (access to decisions from several international courts)

• WorldLII: International Courts & Tribunals Project

• WorldLII: International Courts & Tribunals

Print Collections

These compilations reprint selected cases from a variety of courts and tribunals.

Global War Crimes Tribunal Collection (Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Global Law Association; Holmes Beach, Fla.: Gaunt, 1997-).

International Human Rights Reports (IHRR) (Nottingham, U.K.: Human Rights Law Centre, Dept. of Law, University of Nottingham, 1994-). Reproduces cases from the UN Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee against Torture, CERD, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter American Court of Human Rights, the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Yugoslav and Rwanda War Crimes Tribunals, and the Bosnian Human Rights Chamber.

International Law Reports (Lauterpacht, ed., London: Butterworth, 1919-). Previous titles were Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases and Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases. Contains full text of cases, translated into English, from both national and international tribunals.

International Legal Materials (Washington, DC: American Society of International Law, 1962-). Also available on HeinOnline (UCB only), LexisNexis and Westlaw. Reprints selected cases from international courts and tribunals.

The International Criminal Law Reports (London: Cameron May, 2000-).

International Environmental Law Reports (Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 1999-).

International Labour Law Reports (Alphen aan de Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1978-).

The International Trade Law Reports (London: Cameron May, 1996-).

Court Decisions of an Individual State (country) Concerning its International Obligations

Look at court reports and special collections of court reports concerning international law issues. Search LawCat under the subject: international law--cases; [country]--law reports, digests, etc.  The yearbooks mentioned above are also a good source for this information.

International Law Reports (Lauterpacht, ed., London: Butterworth, 1919-). Previous titles were Annual Digest of Public International Law Cases and Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases. Contains full text of cases, translated into English, from both national and international tribunals.

British International Law Cases (London: Stevens & Sons; Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1964-1970). Collection of British decisions on international law. Cumulative index. 

Fitzmaurice, M., Landmark Cases in Public International Law (London; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998).

International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) (UCB only). A collection of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions

Some web sites:

• WorldLII: Case Law Databases

• WorldLII: Courts & Case-Law

• Global Courts: Supreme Court Decisions Around the World

• World Law Guide: Courts

Writings of Publicists

Look at scholarly works (treatises, journal articles, publications of scholarly associations, and articles in international law encyclopedias). These sources are generally the best place to start researching an international law topic since they can help you identify rules in other sources of international law, such as treaties.

Treatises

The writings of publicists abound in the Law Library. Listed below are some of the most important works. If looking for more works, search LawCat under the subject: international law.  To locate such treatises in other languages, select the appropriate language from a keyword search or limit the original search by language.

Bowett's Law of International Institutions (Philippe Sands; Pierre Klein; D W Bowett, eds., 5th ed., London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001) discusses the law and practice of international institutions.

Brierly, Law of Nations: An Introduction to the International Law of Peace (6th ed., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963).

Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law (6th ed., New York: Clarendon Press, 2003). 

Buergenthal & Murphy, Public International Law in a Nutshell (3rd ed., St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2002).

Janis, An Introduction to International Law (4th ed., New York: Aspen Publishers, 2003) introduces the subject and explains the basic concepts and issues.

Jennings, Oppenheim's International Law (9th ed., London: Longmans, 1992). 

Malanczuk, Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law (7th rev. ed., London: Routledge, 1997).

Shaw, International Law (5th ed., Cambridge: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 

Schwarzenberger, A Manual of International Law (6th ed., Milton, England: Professional Books, 1976).