Association of American Law Schools 2001 Annual Meeting Wednesday, January 3, 2001 - Saturday, January 6, 2001 San Francisco, California

You are here:   2001 Annual Meeting >> Workshops >> Workshop on Shifting Boundaries >> Workshop Materials >> Attainable Globalization: Internet Research in International Law Annual Meeting Workshop on Shifting Boundaries: Globalization and Its Discontents Internet Research in International Law Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, Georgetown University Law Center The Web site for this presentation is available at http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/presentations/aalsworkshop.htm This presentation is meant to provide you with a brief overview of the many valuable resources available on the Web for both international and foreign law. The librarians in your own library may be able to provide you with more information on Web sites for a particular topic or country. Locating Relevant Information Catalogs WWW Virtual Library, Foreign and International Law (http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/) Foreign and International Law Web (http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/forintmain.html) Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Compilation of Relevant Links (http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/link/eeinf.cfm) Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases (http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/) Researching International Economic Law on the Internet (http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/iiel/home.htm) Search Engines For a good comparison of the major search engines, see Update to Search Engines Compared (http://www.llrx.com/features/engine3.htm). AltaVista (http://www.altavista.com/) See also BabelFish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn). FINDLAW (http://www.findlaw.com/) HotBot (http://hotbot.lycos.com/) Google (http://www.google.com/) LawCrawler (http://lawcrawler.lp.findlaw.com/) Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/) Northern Light (http://www.northernlight.com/) Yahoo (http://dir.yahoo.com/government/law/) Direct Search (http://gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/%7Egprice/direct.htm) The Invisible Web (http://www.invisibleweb.com/) Mining Deeper into the Invisible Web (http://www.llrx.com/features/mining.htm) How to Evaluate What You Find on the Internet Update to Evaluating Foreign and International Legal Databases on the Internet (http://www.llrx.com/features/mining.htm) Evaluation of Information Resources (http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm) Finding More Relevant Sites (or how do I keep up) Keeping Current with International Law Developments via the Web by Jill Watson at the American Society of International Law (http://www.llrx.com/features/keeping.htm). What's Online In International Law (http://www.asil.org/wonindx.htm) International Law in Brief (http://www.asil.org/ilibindx.htm) BigEar: Current Legal Resources on the Net (http://barratry.law.cornell.edu:5123/notify/buzz.html) InSite -- Law Site Reviews (http://128.253.118.14:8080/insite/insitetp.html) The Scout Report (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/index.html) Daily Diffs (http://www.dailydiffs.com/) Law Lists Info (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/info.html) ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Lists, Newsgroups, & Networks (http://www.asil.org/resource/lists1.htm). Foreign Law General Foreign Law Sites Foreign Governments (http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/foreign.html) Foreign Primary Law on the Web (http://www.law.uh.edu/librarians/tmulligan/foreignlaw.html) Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/x-nation.html) Global Legal Information Network (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/GLIN.html) Governments on WWW (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/world.html) Legal Materials Around the Globe (http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/) NYU's Guide to foreign databases – collections (http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/foreign.html) and foreign databases by jurisdiction (http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/country.html) Social Science Information Gateway (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/law/) Virtuelle Rechtsvergleicher (http://viadrina.euv-frankfurt-o.de/%7Edvr/Welcome.html) Web Sites of National Parliaments (http://www.ipu.org/english/parlweb.htm) The World Law Guide (http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/legis.htm) World Law Index (http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/World/) Foreign Laws by Jurisdiction American Law Sources Online (http://www.lawsource.com/also/) Australasian Legal Information Institute (http://www.austlii.edu.au/) British & Irish Legal Information Institute (http://www.bailii.org/) Department of Justice, Canada (http://canada.justice.gc.ca/Loireg/index_en.html) Chinese Laws in English (http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/lawtran1.htm) ELSweb (http://www2.unimaas.nl/~elsweb/) HMSO (http://www.hmso.gov.uk/) International and Foreign Law Resource Center (http://www.llrx.com/resources4.htm) Latin American Government Documents Project – National Legislative Documents (http://lib1.library.cornell.edu/colldev/lalegisdocs.html) Law-Related Internet Project, University of Saarland, German Law (http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/english/glsindex.html) South African Acts Online (http://www.acts.co.za/) Foreign Laws by Topic Annual Review of Population Law (http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/annual_review/index.html) Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (http://clea.wipo.int/) Doing Business in... Guides (http://www.hg.org/guides.html) FAOLEX (http://www.fao.org/Legal/default.htm) Foreign Penal Codes (http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/resource.htm) Global Banking Law Database (http://www.gbld.org/) Global E-Commerce (http://www.bmck.com/ecommerce/intlegis.htm) International Digest of Health Legislation (http://www-nt.who.int/idhl/en/ConsultIDHL.cfm) Intellectual Property Rights (http://www.sice.oas.org/int_prop/ipnale.asp) International Constitutional Law (http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de:80/law/home.html) National Legislation on Authors Rights and Neighboring Rights (http://www.unesco.org/culture/copy/index.html) NATLEX (http://natlex.ilo.org/) Case Law International Supreme Court Decisions (http://www.mossbyrett.of.no/info/links.html) Court Net (http://www.sigov.si/us/courtnet.html) GLAW Project (http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/glaw/info.html) Governments on the WWW: Courts (http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/courts.html) Constitutional Courts and Equivalent Bodies (http://www.coe.fr/venice/links-e.htm) Japan Supreme Court (http://www.courts.go.jp/english/ehome.htm) Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, Report Abstracts in English (http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/Entscheidungen/abstracts/entsch-e.html) International Law General International Law Sites ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm) Foreign and International Law Web (http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/forintmain.html) International and Foreign Law Resource Center (http://www.llrx.com/resources4.htm) Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet (http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm) Public International Law (http://www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/intlaw/) WWW Virtual Library, Foreign and International Law (http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/) Multilateral Treaties Avalon Project (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm) Council of Europe Treaties (http://www.coe.fr/eng/legaltxt/treaties.htm) European Union Treaties (http://www-nt.who.int/idhl/en/ConsultIDHL.cfm) Hague Conventions on Private International Law (http://www.hcch.net/e/conventions/index.html) Multilaterals Project (http://fletcher.tufts.edu/) Organization of American States Treaties (http://www.oas.org/EN/PROG/JURIDICO/english/treaties.html) Project DIAL Treaties and International Agreements (http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/World/International/Treaties_and_International_Agreements/) United Nations Treaty Collection (fee-based) (http://untreaty.un.org/) U.S. Treaties & Agreements Treaties in Force (http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/tifindex.html) Treaty Actions (http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/treaty_actions_2000.html) Legislative Activities (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/legis_act_treaties.html) Senate, House & Treaty Documents (http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong006.html) Private International Law Database (http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/private_intl_law.html) Trade and Related Agreements (http://www.mac.doc.gov/tcc/data/index.html) Oceana Online, TIARA Database (fee-based service) (http://www.oceanalaw.com/) Some Topical Sources Institute of International Commercial Law (http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/) ECOLEX (http://www.ecolex.org/) Foreign Trade Information System (http://www.sice.oas.org/) Human Rights Library (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/) International Humanitarian Law (http://www.icrc.org/eng/ihl) International Labour Organization (http://www.ilo.org/) Juris International (http://www.jurisint.org/pub/page00_en.htm) Trade/Commercial Law (http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/index.html) World Intellectual Property Organization (http://www.wipo.int/treaties/index.html) International Courts and Tribunals European Court of Justice (http://europa.eu.int/cj/en/index.htm) International Court of Justice (http://www.icj-cij.org/) ICJ Research Guide (http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/Finding_the_Law/Guides_by_Topic/icj.htm) International Criminal Court (http://www.un.org/law/icc/index.html) Permanent Court of Arbitration (http://www.pca-cpa.org/) Project on International Courts and Tribunals (http://www.pict-pcti.org/news/archvie.html) International Organizations Collections International Organizations (http://www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html) International Agencies and Information on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/intl.html) Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations Systems Organizations (http://www.unsystem.org/) International Organization Web Sites: Index Page (http://www.uia.org/website.htm) Specific Sites EUROPA (http://europa.eu.int/index-en.htm) and Eur-Lex (http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html) Best European Union Law Websites (http://www.eurunion.org/infores/BestLawSites.HTM) International Chamber of Commerce (http://www.iccwbo.org/) Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (http://www.oecd.org/) Organization of American States (http://www.oas.org/) United Nations Web Site (http://www.un.org/) United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (http://www.uncitral.org/) International Institute for the Unification of Law (http://www.unidroit.org/) World Trade Organization (http://www.wto.org/) Periodicals Harvard Jean Monnet Table of Contents Service (http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/JeanMonnet/TOC/index.html) Hieros Gamos, Legal and Law Related Journals (http://www.hg.org/journals.html) RAVE (http://www.jura.uni-duesseldorf.de/rave/e/englhome.htm) Max Planck's Online Documentation of Articles (http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/VI/eauf_systematik_vr.cfm) Other Resources for Law Teachers International and Comparative Law Course Pages (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/cour_pgs.htm#International) Lessons from the Web (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/lessons.htm) LEXIS Publishing Virtual Classroom, Course Web Sites (http://www.wcbcourses.com/wcb/) Michael Geist Web Lecture Series (http://lawschool.lexis.com/weblec/index.html) World Lecture Hall - Law (http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/law/) Research Guides: Georgetown Law Library (http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/intl/index.htm), Harvard Law School Library (http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research_guides/research_page.htm#International, %20Foreign%20&%20Comparative%20Law%20Research%20Guides), and Duke Law Library (http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/libser/publicat/researchGuides/).