1.
International Organizations

2.
Intergovernmental Organization IGO
Non-governmental Organization NGO
• 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)
• no international legal status
• non-governmental representatives
• may serve consultative role to IGOs
• some are very influential

3.
• facilitating and participating in
treaty making
• producing soft law via non-treaty
obligations from resolutions,
declarations, etc.
IGOs play a role in creating international law:

4.
international agencies

5.
International agencies
Other subject headings to consider:
• intergovernmental cooperation
• international organization
• regionalism (international organization)
• or search by ind'l organization name

6.
atomic
.int

7.
But
rememb
er that
many
int'l orgs
have a
domain
of .org
instead
of .int

8.
Periodical Articles
•Lexis & Westlaw
• LegalTrac
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
• Index to Legal Periodicals

9.
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

10.
Directories and Research Guides

11.
http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/research/researchguides/wtogattresearch/index.htm

12.
http://www.eisil.org/index.php?cat=15&t=sub_pages
provides information and links to helpful IGO and NGO
resources

13.
Concise source of
information about int’l
organizations,
including IGOs,
NGOs, and others:
•address
•Purpose
•Publications
•consultative status
•relations with IGOs

14.
The Union of
International
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.
http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php

15.
United Nations
United Nations http://www.un.org

16.
UN Research: getting started

17.
General Assembly Resolutions

18.
sudan

19.
PDF of the document

20.
UN Official Documentation System - ODS

21.
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”
Resolution #

22.
Sample UN Document Numbers

23.
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

24.
Use the document number to search
further online or to find print copy in
the Basement

25.
•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
•Bluebook requires that you cite UN resolutions to:

26.
Supplement to GAOR
containing resolutions

27.
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.

28.
Some UN resolutions available in Djonovich collection:

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International Tribunals
•International Court of Justice
•Regional courts
•International criminal tribunals
•Int’l Tribunal for Law of the Sea

30.
Books, articles, working papers, news re conferences and other int’l tribunal
activities

31.
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:

32.
Info re Westlaw database for ICJ decisions

33.
Info re Lexis database for ICJ decisions

34.
World Trade Organization
we have many titles in Law Library with this subject heading

35.
WTO site is great source for documents

36.
agreements
Dispute documents
e.g., panel reports

37.
WTO database search by subject: click on the subject (issue)

38.
Hyperlink

39.
The downloaded
document is in
Word

40.
Westlaw info page on WTO/GATT Panel Decisions

41.
Lexis GATT/WTO panel
decisions info note

42.
EMAIL ALERTS and RSS Feeds
to keep you current
Just another representative IGO – look for these types of
features on IGO sites

43.
NGOs

44.
http://www.wango.org/resources.aspx?section=ngodir

45.
Human Rights Documents database
• human rights documents of NGOs
• 1980 to late 2000s
• includes “grey” literature
• linked from Research Resources