Sources
- Library Catalogue
- WorldCat - Access more than 60,000 libraries around the world, including Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Toronto and more
- Legal Classics - Via HeinOnline
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- Request a book via interlibrary loans
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- Annette's METASEARCH of Open Access Law Journals from Canada, US, UK and Europe.
- Westlaw Edge Canada*.
- Lexis+*
- HeinOnline
- Kluwer Law International Journal Library - Via Heinonline. Provides law journal articles pertaining to international law and EU.
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- Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (Intersentia)
"Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals provides you with the full text of the most important decisions, including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented the most important decisions of the ICTY, ICTR, The Special Court for Sierra Leone, The International Criminal Tribunal for Timor-Leste and the ICC."
- International Legal Materials - Via HeinOnline.
- Oxford Reports on International Law*.
Oxford Reports on International Law brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals. Includes cross-case navigation via the Oxford Law Citator. This set includes:
- Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts - International law as applied in the domestic courts of around 70 jurisdictions.
- Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction
- CGJ covers all contentious and advisory cases from the International Court of Justice, Permanent
- Court of International Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the Permanent Court of Arbitration
- Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law. Includes:
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
- Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law- international decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts including Cases regarding the European Convention on Human Rights, UN human rights bodies, Decisions from the Inter-America system, Decisions under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights.
- International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
- ICC International Court of Arbitration
- London Court of International Arbitration
- Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Permanent Court of Arbitration
- Association of South East Asian Nations arbitral tribunal
- Oxford Law Citator
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Sources
- Cardiff Index (International Legal Abbreviations)
- Jessup Library - via HeinOnline
- Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law*. Includes Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- Oxford Guide to Latin in International Law
- Oxford International Law Dictionary - Parry and Grant
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Sources
- Kluwer Law International Journal Library - via Heinonline. International law and EU.
- European Court of Human Rights Cases - Once at the site, select Case-Law. Free resource.
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- European Union Research Guide - Georgetown Law Library
- Research Guide: European Union Legal Materials - Columbia Law Library
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations ;- New York University
Generating Keywords
- “international criminal law”
- “international criminal court”
- “crime of aggression”
- “individual responsibility”
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- jurisdiction
- process or procedure
- evidence
- investigation
- sentencing or punishment
- Africa or “global south”
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Reference Sources
- Cardiff Index (International Legal Abbreviations)
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law
- Oxford International Law Dictionary (Parry and Grant)
Journals
- Lexis+
- Westlaw Edge Canada World Journals
- Hein Online (provides page numbers)
Specialized Journals
- Transnational Criminal Law Review
- Journal of International Criminal Justice
- South African Journal of Criminal Justice
- Transnational Criminal Law Review
Caselaw
- Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals (Intersentia) -
"Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals provides you with the full text of the most important decisions, including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented the most important decisions of the ICTY, ICTR, The Special Court for Sierra Leone, The International Criminal Tribunal for Timor-Leste and the ICC."
- International Crimes Database
The International Crimes Database (ICD) website, hosted and maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague, offers a comprehensive database on international crimes adjudicated by national, as well as international and internationalized courts.
- ICC Court Records and Transcripts
- Situations under investigation
- Oxford Reports on International Law* Includes:
- Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law
- Harvard Law Library Nuremberg Trials Project - "The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images or full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg documents, descriptions of each document, and general information about the trials."
- The Project currently provides access to most of the following materials for five of the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals:
- NMT 1 (U.S.A. v. Karl Brandt et al.)
- NMT 2 (U.S.A. v. Erhard Milch)
- NMT3 (U.S.A. v. Josef Altstoetter et al.)
- NMT 4 (U.S.A. v. Pohl et al.)
- NMT7 (U.S.A. v. Wilhelm List et al.)
- The Project currently provides access to most of the following materials for five of the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals:
Governance Documents
- United Nations Official Documents
- International Criminal Court Legal Tools Database provides:
- ICC Documents
- Preparatory Works and Statutory Amendments
- International Legal Instruments
- International Law Decisions
- Human Rights Decisions
- Internationalised Criminal Jurisdictions (Basic Documents)
- Internationalised Criminal Decisions
- National Jurisdictions
- National Implementing Legislation
- National Cases Involving Core International Crimes
- Publications
- UN War Crimes Commission
- Internationalised Fact-Finding Mandates
- Core Texts (Treaties)
- Official Journal of the International Criminal Court
- Document Library (Coalition for an International Criminal Court)
Treaty Citation
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998, 2187 UNTS 3 (entered into force 1 July 2002, ratification by Canada 7 July 2007), online.
Amendments on the Crime of Aggression to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 11 June 2010, Resolution RC/Res.6 of the Review Conference of the Rome Statute, (registration 8 May 2013)(not ratified by Canada), online.
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Common Trade-Related Treaty Citations
- General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 30 October 1947, 58 UNTS 187 (entered into force 1 January 1948).
- Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. Annex 1A: Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods. Marrakesh Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994, 15 April 1994, 1867 UNTS 187, 33 ILM 1165, (entered into force 1 January 1995, ratification by Canada 30 December 1994).
- Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. Annex 1B: General Agreement on Trade in Services, 15 April 1994, 1869 UNTS 183 (entered into force 1 January 1995, ratification by Canada 30 December 1994).
- Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. Annex 1C: Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, 5 April 1994, 1869 UNTS 299 (entered into force 1 January 1995, ratification by Canada 30 December 1994). Unamended version.
- Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization. Annex 2 Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes, 15 April 1994, 1869 UNTS 401 (entered into force 1 January 1995, ratification by Canada 30 December 1994).
Sources
- Canada Treaty Information - Via Global Affairs Canada
- Canada Treaty Series in the Law Library
- United Nations Treaty Series
- United Nations Law Collection - Via HeinOnline. Scanned version, which is easily navigable, of the United Nations Treaties Series
- Treaties to which the United States is a signatory - Via HeinOnline
- World Treaty Library - Via HeinOnline
Common Treaty Citations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 10 December 1948, 43 AJILS 127. UNGAOR 3rd Sess. UN Doc A/811. (Adopted by the UNGA 10 December 1948).
- Statute of the International Court of Justice, 26 June 1945, Can TS 1945 No 7 (entered into force 24 October 1945).
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 23 May 1969, 1155 UNTS 331 (entered into force 27 January 1980, accession by Canada 27 January 1980).
- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, 09 May 1992, 1771 UNTS 107 (entered into force 21 March 1994, ratified by Canada 4 December 1992).
Sources
- League of Nations Archives Among the 14,2 million pages digitized are documents covering all the activities of the League between 1920 and 1946, and some 27,000 maps and 9,000 photographs.
- United Nations Digital Library - UNDL includes UNBISnet, UN documents, UN maps, speech and voting records.
- United Nations Documents - available through HeinOnline United Nations Law Collection
- United Nations Official Document System
- United Nations Treaty Collection - Collection of fulltext treaties and international agreements since 1946.
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Updated: February 8, 2023 AD