As of 22 April 2009 IFLA has a totally redesigned new website

This old website and all of its content will stay on as archive – http://archive.ifla.org

A great deal of legal information, including the full text of treaties, national constitutions, and national legal codes is available on the WWW. Below are a list of starting points for locating this type of information. For materials not found on through these sources use the pages with links to Multi-National Organizations and National Governments to find other resources.

1. World Constitutions and International Treaties:   http://library.tamu.edu/govdocs/workshop/index.html: from Sandra da Conturbia and Xiaodong Li, Texas A & M University
2. Social Science Information Gateway: Law: http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/law/ -- The service aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. Do a keyword search on "CONSTITUTIONS" to retrieve a list links to sites listing constitutions.
3. Guide to Law Online: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/worldlaw.html -- from the U.S. Library of Congress,
   • Includes the Global Legal Information Nework http://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/GLIN.html with a searchable database of laws from many countries.
4. World Law Index
5. World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law : Foreign and International Law    http://www.etown.edu/vl/intllaw.html
6. Law by Source: Global   http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/ -- from the Cornell University Legal Information Institute. The LII collection of world legal materials gathers, country by country, continent by continent, the Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and related legal material from around the globe (excluding the U.S. material held in the LII's other collections). It also holds resources and document collections of International law. For United States materials start at the http://www.law.cornell.edu/ Legal Information Institutes main page.
7. FindLaw: International Law    http://www.findlaw.com/12international/index.html
   • FindLaw includes a "LawCrawler" to search the WWW for legal information http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
8. International Constitutional Law:   http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/index.html

International "Courts"

For the purposes of this list, the term "courts" is very broadly defined to include boards of arbitration and other agencies that mediate international disputes.

• Administrative Tribunal of the International Labor Organisation:  http://www.ilo.org/public/english/tribunal/
• The Court of Justice of the European Communities:  http://curia.eu.int/ities
• La Corte Centroamericana de Justicia  http://www.ccj.org.ni/
• European Court of Human Rights:  http://www.echr.coe.int
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights:   http://corteidh-oea.nu.or.cr/ci/HOME_ING.HTM
  • Inter-American Human Rights Database  http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/digest/inter-american/index.html
• International Court of Justice:  http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/cijwww/
• International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes:  http://www.worldbank.org/icsid/
• International Criminal Court  http://www.un.org/law/icc/index.html
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda  http://www.ictr.org
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)   http://www.un.org/icty/index.html
• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea:   http://www.un.org/Depts/los/ITLOS/ITLOSproc.htm
• North American Free Trade Agreement:   http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/ -- choose Decisions from the top frame.
• Permanent Court of Arbitration:  http://www.pca-cpa.org/
• World Intellectual Property Organizations:   http://www.wipo.org/ -- Choose Activities & Services and Arbitration and Mediation Center http://arbiter.wipo.int/center/index.html
• World Trade Organization:  http://www.wto.org/-- see Dispute Settlements http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/dispu_e.htm.

Specialized Topics

These sites provide starting points for some specialized topics.

1. Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University, Washington College of Law  http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/home.htm
2. CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, Secretariate.  http://www.cites.org/
3. International Law Commission (UN):  http://www.un.org/law/ilc/index.htm
4. International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)  http://www.uncitral.org/en-index.htm
5. Lex Mercatoria:  http://lexmercatoria.org/ or http://lexmercatoria.net/ -- An international trade law site originally supported and hosted by the Law Faculty of the University of Tromsų the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo, Norway, the Institute of International Commercial Law of Pace University School of Law, USA and by the Australasian Legal Information Institute. This site was acquired by a commercial publisher in July 2000.  It is unclear how much information will remain free.
6. Oceans and Law of the Sea:  http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm -- from the United Nations.