1. International Organizations

2. Intergovernmental Organization IGO
established by treaty
is a legal entity w/ int’l legal status - can enter into treaties
probably has a legislative body (of gov’t representatives)
may have a dispute resolution body
may have an executive body (secretariat)
Non-governmental Organization NGO
no international legal status
non-governmental representatives
may serve consultative role to IGOs
some are very influential

3. IGOs play a role in creating international law:
facilitating and participating in treaty making
producing soft law via non-treaty obligations from resolutions, declarations, etc.

4. international agencies

6. International agencies
Other subject headings to consider:
intergovernmental cooperation
international organization
regionalism (international organization)
or search by ind'l organization name

8. atomic
.int

9. But remember that many int'l orgs have a domain of .org instead of .int

10. Periodical Articles Lexis & Westlaw LegalTrac
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals

11. Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online
gathers working & occasional papers from research institutes, NGOs, foundations and conferences
includes much full text even w/o a subscription

12. Directories and Research Guides

14. provides information and links to helpful IGO and NGO resources
provides information and links to helpful IGO and NGO resources

15. Concise source of information about int’l organizations, including IGOs, NGOs, and others:
address
Purpose
Publications
consultative status
relations with IGOs

16. The Union of International Associations publishes the Yearbook of International Organizations and provides an online version (subscription only). Other resources on the site are free, however. The Law Library gets the yearbook in print occasionally and the Main Library gets it every year.

23. United Nations http://www.un.org

26. UN Research: getting started

31. General Assembly Resolutions

35. sudan

37. PDF of the document

38. UN Official Documentation System - ODS

42. Draft documents are produced as “masthead” or “mimeographed” docs - we buy and shelve in the Basement by their document #, e.g., “A/55/582/Add.1”
Resolution #

43. Sample UN Document Numbers

45. Get to Access UN through GIL or through GALILEO
Access UN - index to UN documents - does contain some full-text but is mostly just an index
Get to Access UN through GIL or through GALILEO
Access UN
Access UN

48. Use the document number to search further online or to find print copy in the Basement

49. Bluebook requires that you cite UN resolutions to:
the official records for that UN entity, e.g., GAOR is the official records of the General Assembly, SCOR is for Security Council Official Records; or
the online version
See Rule
The Main Library subscribes to the official records
We purchase selected official records, including the supplement coming out after each GA session containing all resolutions and decisions from that session

51. Supplement to GAOR containing resolutions

52. TITLE: Yearbook of the United Nations
The The Yearbook of the United Nations details the many activities of the Organization and its organs, programs and bodies, as they are carried out in all corners of the globe.
Each volume is fully indexed and reproduces all major General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council resolutions issued during the year.

53. Some UN resolutions available in Djonovich collection:

54. International Tribunals
International Court of Justice
Regional courts
International criminal tribunals
Int’l Tribunal for Law of the Sea

55. Books, articles, working papers, news re conferences and other int’l tribunal activities

59. Citation per Bluebook Rule 21.5.1:
Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 I.C.J. 136 (July 9).
Citation per Bluebook Rule :

60. Info re Westlaw database for ICJ decisions

61. Info re Lexis database for ICJ decisions

62. World Trade Organization
we have many titles in Law Library with this subject heading

63. WTO site is great source for documents

65. agreements
Dispute documents
e.g., panel reports

67. WTO database search by subject: click on the subject (issue)

68. Hyperlink

71. The downloaded document is in Word

74. Westlaw info page on WTO/GATT Panel Decisions

75. Lexis GATT/WTO panel decisions info note

76. Just another representative IGO – look for these types of features on IGO sites
ALERTS and RSS Feeds
to keep you current

77. NGOs

80. Human Rights Documents database
human rights documents of NGOs
1980 to late 2000s
includes “grey” literature
linked from Research Resources