Law Internet Resources

International Law

• Treaties
• Court and Tribunal decisions, law reports etc
• Key Bodies
• Key Publications
• Links to Other Sites (Pathfinders, Directories etc)
  
  

Topics

• Human rights see Civil and Human Rights Law resource guide
• Fisheries
• Refugees
• War Crimes, Genocide, etc
• Wildlife

Treaties

• DFAT Treaties Library
  
  For other treaty collections, see the Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Group treaty page
• Definition of key terms used in the UN Treaty Collection

Court and Tribunal decisions, law reports etc

• International Court of Justice
• World Court Digest
  Summaries of ICJ decisions arranged by subject (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)

Key Bodies

• American Society of International Law (ASIL)- includes research guides to international law on the Internet, indexes to journals, ASIL insights (designed to inform decision-makers and the public of the relevance of international law to current events), ASIL Newsletter (latest developments in international law)
• Attorney General's Department
  • International child abduction
  • Intercountry adoption
  • International child protection
  • International child and spousal maintenance
  • International Custody Registration
  • Office of International Law
• Australia. Parliament. Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
• Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
• • Newsletter
  • ANZSIL Conference Proceedings 2000-2006
    • 2000 International Legal Challenges for the Twenty-first Century
    • 2001 International Law  downunder: Antipodean Contributions and Challenges
    • 2002 New Challenges and New States: what role for international law?
    • 2003 International Governance and Institutions: what significance for international law?
    • 2004 International Law and Security in the Post-Iraq Era: Where to for International Law?
    • 2005 International Institutions in a Uni-Polar World
    • 2006 Pacific Perspectives on International Law

• Australian National University, College of Law, Centre for International and Public Law
• A Just Australia: Australians for Just Refugee Programs
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade - International Organisations and Legal Division

• International Bar Association
  Peak body for lawyers and their associations. Deals mainly with international law issues
• International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit)
• Kosovo and Yugoslavia: Law in Crisis
  Legal guide to the Kosovo conflict from JURIST: The Law Professors' Network
• League of Nations
  Text of its Covenant and a small number of treaties (Yale University)
• League of Nations Digitization Project
  Aims to make key documents available as from the year 2001

• United Nations
• Human rights homepage- includes links to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Commission on Human Rights, Human Rights Committee, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), etc
• International Law Commission
• International law home page
• Law of the sea- Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
• Legal Counsel of the United Nations
• Office of Legal Affairs. Codification Division
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
• United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
• United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
  Includes the Centre for International Crime Prevention

Key Publications

Journals

• AUSTLII links to international law journals
• American University International Law Review
• 2003 Australian International Law Journal-Table of Contents School of Law, University of Western Sydney

• 2002 Australian International Law Journal - Table of Contents School of Law, University of Western Sydney

• 2001 Australian International Law Journal - Table of Contents School of Law, University of Western Sydney
• 2000 Australian International Law Journal - Table of Contents School of Law, University of Western Sydney
• 1999 Australian International Law Journal - Table of Contents School of Law, University of Western Sydney

• Chicago Journal of International Law
• Cornell International Law Journal
• European Journal of International Law
• Harvard International Law Journal
• Journal of International Law and politics
  
• Melbourne Journal of International Law The editorial Board is composed of law students of the University of Melbourne. It is a fully refereed journal and covers aspects of both public and private international law. The Advisory Board is composed of academics and legal practitioners while the Honorary Advisory Board comprises eminent international lawyers.

Articles, reports etc

• Australian Public Law - Immigration Law Articles (Northern Territory University)

2007

• Red Cross, Red Crescent, Red Crystal - Revised Fifth edition ICRC 2006
• Human Rights Watch Report, "Narrowing the Impunity Gap: Trials before Bosnia's War Crimes Chamber," Human Rights Watch, Volume 19, No. 1(D), 2007.
• Human Rights Watch Report, "Central African Republic State of Anarchy: Rebellion and Abuses against Civilians," Human Rights Watch, Volume 19, No. 14(A), 2007.

2006

• Reconceiving the UN Human Rights Regime: Challenges confronting the New UN Human Rights Council (Philip Alston)
• Terror in the name of Human Rights (Tarik Kochi)
• Human Rights Watch Report, "Judging Dujail: The First Trial before the Iraqi High Tribunal," Human Rights Watch, Volume 18, No. 9(E), 2006.

2005

• Recent developments in the law of extradition (Gavan Griffiths and Claire Harris)
• The law of armed conflict- a contemporary critique (Dale Stephens and Mike Lewis)
• Defensive force under the Rome Statute (Hannah Tonkin)
• A Tale of Two Systems: the use of International Law in Constitutional Interpretation in Australia and South Africa (Devika Hovell and George Williams)

2004

• Australia's Fourth Report under the Convention Against Torture June 1997-October 2004
• Judicial discretion and human rights: expanding the role of international law in the domestic sphere (Wendy Lacey)
• Removing the distinction between International and non-international armed conflict in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Deirdre Willmott)
• Refugee Law: the shifting balance (Justice Ronald Sackville)
• Judging Refugees: the Clash of Power and Institutions in the development of Australian Refugee Law (Mary Crock)

2003

• Deep anxieties: Australia and the International Order (Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam, Devika Hovell and George Williams)
• Implementation of the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court: a quiet revolution in Australian law (Gillian Triggs)
• War on the Enemy: Self-defence and state-sponsored terrorism (Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto)
• International law and the War with Iraq (Alex J. Bellamy)

2001

• International law and Australian Prisoners (Matthew Groves)

2000

• International Criminal Law: a Selective Resource Guide (Marylin J. Raisch and Gail Partin)
• International Law - Down in the Engineroom (Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG)
• Federal Parliament's changing role in treaty making and external affairs (A. Twomey)

1999

• Quasi-incorporation of international law in Australia: broadcasting standards, cultural sovereignty and international trade (D.R. Rothwell)
• A Seminar on the role of parliaments in treaty making- Report 24 of the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Treaties

• United Nations research guide: documentation: special topics: international law
  A guide to researching international law using UN documents and Internet sites
• Review of the treaty-making process (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Attorney-General's Department)
• Australia’s second and third report under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment September 1991 - June 1997

1998

• Australia's fourth report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights January 1996 - December 1996
• Australia's third report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights March 1987 - December 1995

1997

• Administrative Decisions (Effect of International Instruments) Bill 1997: report (Australia. Parliament. Senate. Legal and Constitutional Legislation Committee)

1995

• Treaties in Australian law - Analysis of the High Court decision Minister of State for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh by the Australian Government Solicitor
• Trick or treaty: Commonwealth power to make and implement treaties (Australia. Parliament. Senate. Legal and Constitutional References Committee)
• Procedure and practice of entering and implementing international treaties (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Teoh (A. Twomey)

1994

• 1994 International Tribunals and the Attack on Australian Democracy (R. Kemp)
• 1994 The Basel Convention [on hazardous wastes]: why national sovereignty is important (R. Evans)

1993

• 1993 Legal status of Antarctic off-shore area (U. Nussbaum)

1992

• 1992 The Madrid Protocol and its relationship with the Antarctic Treaty system (D.R. Rothwell)

Links to Other Sites (Pathfinders, Directories etc)

• via AUSTLII
• via Cornell University
• via Hieros Gamos
• via Parliamentary Library Foreign Affairs Defence and Trade Internet Resources- includes further links to the East Timor crisis; Human rights; International organisations; Treaties; and United Nations
• via University of Chicago
• via University of Sydney

Fisheries

• Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law

Refugees

• Refugee Caselaw site (University of Michigan Law School)

2006

• Protection elsewhere/nowhere (Savitri Taylor)
• Asylum, Migration and Refugee Protection: realities, myths and the promise of things to come (Erika Feller)
• The Pacific Plan: the provision of 'Effective Protection'? (Susan Kneebone)

2004

• 2004 The High Court and indefinite detention: towards a national bill of rights? (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)

2001

• Border Protection Bill: Bills Digest (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• Border Protection (Validation and Enforcement Powers) Bill 2001: Bills Digest (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone) Bill 2001: Bills Digest(Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• Migration Amendment (Excision from Migration Zone)(Consequential Provisions) Bill 2001: Bills Digest(Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• Migration Legislation Amendment (Immigration Detainees) Bill (No.2): Bills Digest(Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• Refugee Law - Recent Legislative Developments (Current Issues Brief)(Nathan Hancock)
• The Detention of Boat People(Adrienne Millbank)

2000

• The problem with the 1951 Refugee Convention (Adrienne Millbank)

1999

• Boat People, illegal migration and asylum seekers: in perspective(Adrienne Millbank)

War Crimes

Legislation

• International Criminal Court Act 2002
• International Criminal Court (Consequential Amendments) Act 2002
• Inquiry into the 1998 Statute of the International Criminal Court - Joint Standing Committee on Treaties
• Australia's Role in United Nations Reform - Chapter on the International Criminal Court - Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
• Crime of Genocide in Domestic Laws and Penal Codes
• War Crimes Act 1945
• 1999 War Crimes Amendment Bill 1999: bills digest (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)
• International War Crimes Tribunal Act 1995
• 1994 International War Crimes Tribunal Bill 1994: bills digest (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)

Courts

• International Criminal Court
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Court - Assembly of States Parties Report of the First Session 3-10 September 2002
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Court : Resources in Print and Electronic Format (Library of the University of Chicago)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • ICTR quarterly bibliography
    Quarterly listing of newly published books and articles on war crimes
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
  

Publications

• War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes against Humanity: an international journal (Genocide Research Project and the Pennsylvania State University)
• War crimes Resources (New England School of Law Library (U.S.))
  Includes links to international instruments, conventions etc on war crimes
• Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity (Human Rights Watch)
• Web genocide documentation centre (University of the West of England)
• War Crimes Links (Monash University Library)
• Gendercide Watch
  Very current links to news stories on genocide as well as good links to historical material

2004

• 2004 Iraq's special tribunal for crimes against humanity (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)

2001

• Prosecution of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Alex Obote-Odora)

2000

• Is there justification for an International Criminal Tribunal ofr East Timor (John Magro)
• Humanity diminished: the crime of genocide: inquiry into the Anti-Genocide Bill 1999 (Australia. Parliament. Senate. Legal and Constitutional Committee)
• War Crimes: Calling Australia Home. Is Australia serious about bringing war criminals to justice? Is the Government hoping the problem will just go away? And why are war criminals around the world still calling Australia home?
  Transcript of Four corners broadcast on 28/2/2000

1999

• Jurisdictional Aspects of the Rome Statute for the New International Criminal Court (McCormack, Timothy L.H. and Sue Robertson)
• A War crimes tribunal for East Timor? (Commonwealth Parliamentary Library)

1997

• 1997 Sources on Australian investigations into Japanese war crimes in the Pacific (D. Sissons)

Wildlife

• ASIL Wildlife Interest Group Amercian Society of International Law
• Center for Wildlife Law University of New Mexico School of Law, Institute of Public Law
• Wildlife Trade and Conservation Environment Australia
• Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy - a publication of Kluwer Law International
• Wildlife Law News Quarterly Center for Wildlife Law

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