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International Law Resources: Specialized Subject Areas

International Trade Law

North American Free Trade Agreements.  Three volume set consisting of treaty materials, dispute settlement and commentary.  MLIC updating ends 2009.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Documents and Materials Iincluding a Legislative History of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Public Law 103-182.  This 29 volume set with supplements contains the full-text of documents related to the legislative history of NAFTA.

Basic Instruments and Selected Documents/GATT BISD. Vols. 1, 1 Rev. and 3 are missing from MLIC set.

World Trade Organization Basic Instruments and Selected Documents/WTO BISD

GATT documents.  The WTO on its website is involved in an ongoing project to make available in electronic form all GATT documents. 

The GATT Uruguay Round: A Negotiating History (1980-1992),  Volume 4 has notation 1986-1994.

Guide to the GATT Law and Practice: Analytical Index. Updated 6th ed. 1995.

WTO Analytical Index: Guide to WTO Law and Practice.  2nd ed. 2007. This second edition also provides a guide to the interpretation and application of the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization drawing on the jurisprudence of the panel, appellate body and arbitration reports.  This may be used as a companion volume with cross references to Guide to GATT Law and Practice, Analytical Index.

International Trade and Economic Relations In a Nutshell, 5th ed. (2012)

NAFTA and Free Trade in the Americas In a Nutshell, 4th. ed. (2012)

World Trade Organization

Office of the United States Trade Representative

International Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights. Publications of the European Court of Human Rights Series A: Judgments and Decisions. Published 1961-1996.

Print

Court Website

Continued by Reports of Judgments and Decisions. (1996-  ).

European Human Rights Reports. This includes selected reports and decisions of the European Commission of Human Rights, Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, and is an unofficial reporter. 

Print  (MLIC updating ends 2006-07.)

Westlaw

Human Rights Case Digest. Bimonthly publication of the British Institute of Human Rights. 

Print

HeinOnline

Jurisprudence on the Rights of the Child.

International Documents on Children.

Official document system of the United Nations(ODS) Most documents included were issued after 1992 but selected documents go back further.

United Nations documents and publications microfiche edition.  Readex. Human Rights Segment 1986-2009, Basic Law Library Collection, 1986-2009. This would be a useful source for UN documents published prior to 1992. Law Library's updating ends in 2009.

Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights.