International Organizations

Intergovernmental Organization IGO

established by treaty
is a legal entity w/ intl legal status - can enter into treaties
probably has a legislative body (of govt 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

IGOs play a role in creating international law:

facilitating and participating in
treaty making
producing soft law via nontreaty obligations from resolutions,
declarations, etc.

international agencies

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

atomic

.int

But
rememb
er that
many
int'l orgs
have a
domain
of .org
instead
of .int

Periodical Articles

Lexis & Westlaw

LegalTrac
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals

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

Directories and Research Guides

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/research/researchguides/wtogattresearch/index.htm

http://www.eisil.org/index.php?cat=15&t=sub_pages
provides information and links to helpful IGO and NGO
resources

Concise source of
information about intl
organizations,
including IGOs,
NGOs, and others:
address
Purpose
Publications
consultative status
relations with IGOs

The Union of
International
http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php
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.

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

UN Research: getting started

General Assembly Resolutions

sudan

PDF of the document

UN Official Documentation System - ODS

Resolution #

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

Sample UN Document Numbers

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

Use the document number to search

further online or to find print copy in
the Basement

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 21.7.2
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

Supplement to GAOR
containing resolutions

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.

Some UN resolutions available in Djonovich collection:

International Tribunals
International Court of Justice
Regional courts
International criminal tribunals
Intl Tribunal for Law of the Sea

Books, articles, working papers, news re conferences and other intl tribunal
activities

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 21.5.1:

Info re Westlaw database for ICJ decisions

Info re Lexis database for ICJ decisions

World Trade Organization

we have many titles in Law Library with this subject heading

WTO site is great source for documents

agreements

Dispute documents
e.g., panel reports

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

Hyperlink

The downloaded
document is in
Word

Westlaw info page on WTO/GATT Panel Decisions

Lexis GATT/WTO panel

decisions info note

Just another representative IGO look for these types of

features on IGO sites

EMAIL ALERTS and RSS Feeds

to keep you current

NGOs

http://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir

Human Rights Documents database

human rights documents of NGOs
1980 to late 2000s
includes grey literature
linked from Research Resources