International, Foreign, and Comparative Law: Case Law

Provides access to the African Court Law Report and court's latest judgments as well as the African Human Rights Yearbook.

Judgments and decisions of the court, as well as information about court processes and case summaries.

Search cases from the European Union Court of Justice, General Court, and Civil Service Tribunal.

A collection of national case decisions regarding European Union law.

Cases relating to international commercial arbitration for selected countries.

Find pending cases or opinions, organized by type: advisory (UN-requested opinion about a legal question) or contentious (dispute between nation-states). Also provides access to decisions from its precursor, the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Full text of documents from the International Court of Justice (the World Court). Coverage begins with 1947.

Links to court decisions from various international courts and tribunals. Curated by World LII. (Note that site may take a long time to load.)

Search for cases against individuals being tried for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression.

Law Library Bound Periodicals (second floor): 1962-2011
Online locations: HeinOnline, JSTOR, Lexis, Westlaw).
The American Society of International Law has published this set on a bimonthly basis since 1962. It contains the text of treaties considered to be of major significance and may sometimes provide drafts before a final agreement has been reached.

Search for contentious cases (disputes) and advisory opinions (legal questions) related to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Search for decisions, provisional measures, and advisory opinions from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Search and access full text criminal and human rights law decisions from international legal tribunals and find overviews of the criminal justice systems in individual countries. Maintained by the International Criminal Court.

Full-text search of cases and court documents for current and past disputes in which the parties have agreed to release to the public information about their case.

This database provides access to pending and resolved trade disputes before the WTO.

Documents from dispute settlement panels formed under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Coverage of GATT decisions is from 1948 to 1994; coverage of WTO decisions begins with 1995.

Choose the Foreign Law Research link and then select a country, or choose the International Law Research link and select an entity/topic to identify relevant sources of law, including cases.

Click on the country name to see available sources. Opinions will be accessible or some countries, but for many, only news sources will be available.

Countries covered are Australia, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong, Korea, and
United Kingdom. They can be searched all together or individually.

"The LII collection of world legal materials gathers, country by country, continent by continent, the Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and related legal material from around the globe."

Typically provides an overview of the legal system in a particular country and links into legislation, cases, and other sources of law. (Note that this site may take a while to load.)

This guide provides a variety of options for accessing U.S. cases.

Law Library Index Shelving KF 4651 .R47 1987 (First Floor East). Also available to law students electronically.

Official English translations of decisions of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico beginning with December 1973.

This Cardozo Law project translates key opinions of the Israeli Supreme Court into English.

Contains environmental decisions from a variety of countries.

Contains translations of statutes and cases in the areas of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law.

A searchable collection of country-specific legislation and case law implementing international humanitarian law. From the International Committee of the Red Cross.

National and international jurisprudential decisions related to refugees, including courts, administrative bodies, and tribunals.