Research Guides : Art & Cultural Heritage Law Research Guide: International Law

Finding Cases by Court

International Criminal Court

International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the U.N. You can locate and search for cases in the following websites and databases.

International Court of Justice
ICJ Judgments
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ICJ Filings
ICJ Advisory Opinions
International Court of Justice Cases
Oxford Reports in International Law
International Law Reports (Justis)

Searching for Articles

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals This link opens in a new window
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window

PAIS International

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window Includes access to social sciences journal materials. It indexes journals from more than 50 disciplines, including scientific and technical journals.

Sage Journals

Academic Search Complete

Ingenta Connect This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary, searchable database of academic research articles from over 26,000 English-language journals. It offers access to selected periodicals based on your library’s subscription, document delivery service and current awareness alerting service.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

Project Muse

U.S. Treaty Research

The U.S. Statutes At Large are the official publication of treaties published before 1950.

Senate Treaty Documents (FDSYS)
(TIAS) Treaties and Other International Acts Series, 1996 - present
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Up until 2006, this publication was also published in print. Print publication of this source ceased in 2006.
(TIAS) Treaties and Other International Acts Series, 1982 - present
(UST) U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements, 1950-1984
Consolidated Treaties & International Agreements
Kavass Agreements
U.S. Treaties on LEXIS
U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements

Databases

ArThemis

IFAR Art Law & Cultural Property Database This link opens in a new window

International Law Cultural Heritage Primary Sources

International Cultural Property/Ownership & Export Legislation (ICPOEL)

Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources Part 1 & Part 2 1600-1970 This link opens in a new window Part 1 consists of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other countries in northern Europe. Included are historical statutes and regulations for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Part 2 includes PDFs of primary sources such as regulations, session laws, journals, codes and commentaries covering southern Europe, Latin America, and jurisdictions outside Europe.

The following documents historically precede explicit references to cultural heritage, but can be looked to for early developments of important concepts: