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International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law, and Human Rights Research Guide

A Research Guide for the Students in the International Human Rights Clinic.

ASIL's Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law

International Criminal Law makes up a chapter of this database. It provides information on the major electronic sources for researching international criminal law.  

International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone

This research guide focuses on the three international courts in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. This guide offers information on the underlying conflict, the creation of the courts, the history of the courts themselves, the basic documents creating the courts, where to find case law, and selected resources. It has additional information about other international courts and international criminal law issues.

Oxford Bibliographies-International Law

Oxford Bibliographies - International Law has numerous useful bibliographies on international criminal law topics, including International Criminal Law, International Courts, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity.

ICC Legal Tools

Lexsitus

Women and Justice Collection - Cornell Law School

Cornell Law School's Avon Global Center for Women and Justice has compiled selected international agreements, case law, domestic law, reports, guides, articles, and other secondary sources related to gender violence and gender justice all in one searchable site.  

International Crimes Database

The International Crimes Database provides a basic overview of international crimes including genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression, torture, piracy, and terrorism. Discussion of each of the crimes includes the crime's origins, early development, definitions, major cases and cross-references to outside resources. In addition, it has introductory information about various international, hybrid, and domestic courts prosecuting international crimes and a database of cases indexed by name and subject. The database is hosted and maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague.

U.N. Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals Case Law Database

The United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals' Case Law Database is a search tool that provides access to precedent-setting jurisprudence of the Appeals Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT).  

Annotated Leading Cases of International Tribunals

The full text of important decisions in various international tribunals and commentary about those decisions from international criminal law experts.  

Books on International Criminal Law

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