The Hague Academy of International Law was founded in 1923 as an institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. Its purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. From its founding, top names in […]
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Customary International Humanitarian Law Database
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently launched a FREE online database on customary international humanitarian law (IHL). This database is an expansion of the 2005 published study of IHL, conducted by ICRC in consultation with experts from around the world. It includes two parts. Part One offers a comprehensive analysis of […]
Launch of Free-Access International Law Library
A new free international law site was released yesterday by Sir Kenneth James Keith, a judge of the International Court of Justice, and reported by Simon Foden on sLaw. The International Law Library was developed by AUSTLII and contains ...: "... over 80,000 searchable documents for free access. This includes over 25,000 decisions of International […]
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
The United Nations Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs launched the Audiovisual Library of International Law one year ago today. "The United Nations Audiovisual Library is a unique, multimedia resource which provides the United Nations with the unprecedented capacity to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number […]
The Economic Structure of International Law
The Economic Structure of International Law, by Tuft's University professor on international law Joel P. Trachtman, "presents a rationalist analysis of the structure of international law ... At the core of the book lies the question of the allocation of legal power to states." Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, […]