International Organizations
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
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.
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 int’l
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
•Int’l Tribunal for Law of the Sea
Books, articles, working papers, news re conferences and other int’l 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