Legal Research Links
Foreign and International: Organized by Topic

• Electronic Information System for International Law, for links to all subtopics of International Law
  

• Commercial Arbitration Rules, from the American Arbitration Association.
  
• Permanent Court of Arbitration, for documents from The Hague.
  
• United Nations Commission of International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), providing notes on arbitral proceedings.
  

• Institute of International Commercial Law - Pace University School of Law, a database of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).
  
• PricewaterhouseCoopers "Doing Business Guides", a fee service providing guidance on trade with various nations.
  
• United States Department of State: Office of Commercial and Business Affairs, supporting American firms in a global economy.
  

• Constitution Finder, offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and related documents arranged by nation.
  
• International Association of Constitutional Law, providing national constitutions arranged alphabetically.
  

• International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, contributes to international criminal justice through analysis, research, and consultation.
  
• Nuremburg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection, from the Harvard Law School Library, contains approximately one million pages relating to trials of Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal and the United States Nuremburg Military Tribunals.
  

• Amnesty International, working to protect human rights.
  
• Diana Human Rights Database, providing a portal to human rights research.
  
• Human Rights Watch, providing research, advocacy, and publications.
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, with links to treaties, documents, tribunals, and conferences.
  
• United Nations International Norms and Standards Relating to Disability, for guidance around the globe.
  
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, providing a topical search engine as well as documents.
  

• Information Policy: Copyright and Intellectual Property, from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLANET).
  

• Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), pursuing integration of the economies of the Western Hemisphere into a single free trade agreement.
  
• Lex Mercatoria, monitors international and transnational commercial law and e-commerce.
  
• Stat-USA, a fee service from the U.S. Department of Commerce, including the U.S. Trade Data Bank.
  
• UNCITRAL: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, promoting the progressive harmonization and unification of international trade law.
  
• United States International Trade Commission, an independent quasi-judicial federal agency providing trade expertise.
  
• United States Trade Representative (USTR), develops and implements trade policies promoting world growth.
  
• World Bank Group, leaders in global economic development.
  

• Office of the Legal Adviser: Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, a database of international private law at the U.S. Department of State.
  
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), furthers the harmonization of international trade law.
  

• United Nations Treaty Collection, contains treaties from 1946 to the present. Visit our library's "Databases" page for access information at http://www.stcl.edu/library/Databases.html.
  
• United States Congress: Senate, House, & Treaty Documents , a search engine from GPO access.
  
• United States Helsinki Commission, an independent agency of the U.S. government which monitors compliance with the Helsinki Final Act and with other commitments of countries participating in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.