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:
6. International agencies
Other subject headings to consider:
• intergovernmental cooperation
• international organization
• regionalism (international organization)
• or search by ind'l organization name
15. Concise source of
information about int’l
organizations,
including IGOs,
NGOs, and others:
•address
•Purpose
•Publications
•consultative status
•relations with IGOs
16. 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
42. 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 #
45. 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
46.
47.
48. Use the document number to search
further online or to find print copy in
the Basement
49. •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:
52. 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.
59. 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:
80. Human Rights Documents database
• human rights documents of NGOs
• 1980 to late 2000s
• includes “grey” literature
• linked from Research Resources
