INTERNATIONAL LAW
W.B. Fisch
Some Websites for International Law
(last updated November 12, 2012)
These are some useful sources on the World-Wide Web relating to international law and international law study (including law study abroad).  These are just some beginning suggestions -- like everything else on this website, it is "under construction"!

Law Study Abroad

The American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education has a page listing its approved "Foreign Summer Programs", with links to other types of approved study abroad programs.

Careers in International Law

The University of Washington School of Law Library maintains a page on Careers in International Law, with links to important sites such as the ABA, The American Society of International Law, the International Law Student Association and many others, and well as a list of books on the subject.

Official U.S. Sites
The Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department of State is a good starting place for current and historical positions taken by the U.S. on matters of international law, including both current news and the most recent editions (latest covering the year 2006) of its Digest of United States Practice in International Law (both in hard copy and on the OLA site), updates to which are published on a quarterly basis in the American Journal of International Law; the 2007 edition of U.S. Treaties in Force; and recent actions of the U.S. and other parties concerning treaties of interest to the U.S.  From the OLA site, of course, you can get to the DOS home site.

Favorite Starting Places
There are many ways to start investigating web-based resources on international law, the most obvious of which is a comprehensive collection of links and documents organized topically.  The following are my favorites, each with a different style and emphasis but with substantially overlapping endpoints and mutual references.  Often I will use all or most of them to get the most complete look at what is available.

• Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute (International Law)  provides a brief overview of the subject and has a comprehensive collection of links to various international legal sources on the Web, including materials on the law of the United States relating to international law.
• The University of Chicago's D'Angelo Law Library maintains a page of links to web resources on a wide range of foreign and international law topics.
• The United Nations homepage
• From which you can click on "Main Bodies" and then on the home page of the International Court of Justice, listing, among other links, recent actions taken by or before the ICJ
• At the UN home page you can click on "International Law" or "Human Rights" to access UN databases on those subjects; for example, on the "human rights" page you can link to the homepage of the UN High Commission on Human Rights
• you can also click on "International Law" and then "Treaties" to reach the newly redesigned UN Treaty Database -- you will need to register and subscribe for a fee if you can't use an institutional subscription (the MU Law School now has an institutional subscription, which can be accessed through any law school computer)

Sites on International Courts and Tribunals

• The Project on International Courts and Tribunals has a comprehensive page on the full range of international tribunals, from the International Court of Justice to the nascent International Criminal Court to the World Trade Organization to the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights, and everything in between.  It has, among other things: current news; a "research matrix" which provides essential information about existing institutions (currently 18 and growing); a "synoptic chart" that includes "aborted" tribunals as well as past, existing, proposed and nascent ones by geographic scope and subject matter; recent decisions of the most important courts and tribunals; and links to the web pages of most judicial and quasi-judicial dispute-settling bodies.

Jessup International Moot Court Competition

• The International Law Students' Association, which is the sponsoring organization for the Jessup Competition, has a home page with links to a number of other resources; the Jessup page has the text of the current and a few past problems for the competition, rules of the competition, etc.

Human Rights

For home pages of a couple of the most active and effective non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the field of  international human rights, see: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, both of which have reports and advocacy statements on current events and links to many other sources

There are a couple of databases specifically devoted to Human Rights matters that can be worth a look:

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations , which focuses more on the social science perspective than on the legal but contains a lot of interesting information