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SAGES - Legal Resources

This is a guide to law-related materials that may support students researching materials to support a policy brief. (Updated 9/28/2020.)

Foreign & International Law

Countries

AustLII (Australia)

British  and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)

​CanLII (Canada) 

Foreign Law Translations (The University of Texas at Austin: School of Law).  (Foreign Law Translations from: Austria, France, Germany, Israel).

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)

GlobaLex: Foreign Law Research

Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress: An annotated guide to sources of government and law online). 

Organizations and Collections

Audiovisual Library of International Law

The AVALON Project:  Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale Law School)

EISIL (Developed by the American Society of International Law (ASIL).

  • Covers all aspects of international law including:
    • Basic
    • Historical 
    • International Organizations
    • Individuals
    • Inter-Governmental Agencies
    • Social and Political Issues
    • Communications
    • International Human Rights
    • International Criminal law
    • Use of Force
    • International Disupte Settlement
    • Private International Law

European Court of Human Rights

EUR-Lex:  Access to European Union Law

GlobaLex: (New York University School of Law)

Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)

Translation of National Legislation into English (​Law Library of Congress)

NATLEX (Database of National Labour, Social Security, and related human rights legislation). (International Labour Organization (ILO).

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

The United Nations Judicial Bodies

WIPO Lex​

  • WIPO Lex is a global database that provides free of charge access to legal information on intellectual property (IP) such as treaties administered by WIPO, other IP-related treaties, and laws and regulations of some 200 countries.
  • WIPO Lex aims to achieve the objective set forth in Article 4(vi) of the WIPO Convention, that is, WIPO "shall assemble and disseminate information concerning the protection of intellectual property, carry out and promote studies in this field, and publish the results of such studies." WIPO Lex covers all WIPO Member States.