New York State Issues
NY CPL 440.10 (Annotated Westlaw), NY CPL 440.10 (Annotated Lexis)
NY Legislative History (generally)
Legislative history of START Act 2021
Legislative history 2010 Act (bill jacket)
440 Motions (Jailhouse Lawyers Manual)
National Issues
Bill Tracking (Westlaw)
Bill Tracking (NCSL)
State Abortion Laws in the Absence of Roe v. Wade (NCSL)
State Access to Abortion After Immediately After Roe v. Wade (Westlaw)
Law Review database (Westlaw)
SSRN (for not yet published scholarship)
News (Westlaw)
Law Library of Congress: Uruguay
International & Human Rights Research
International Law page (see also Foreign law page)
International Law tutorial (joint Duke and Berkeley)
Human Rights Law Research Guide (Georgetown)
Other Research Guides
Globalex
Google area of law + Legal Research Guide (quite effective)
Finding Secondary Sources
CUNY OneSearch
WorldCat
Law Reviews also search HeinOnline
Google Scholar
Non-Legal Databases
Fourth Restatement of the Law of Foreign Relations (Westlaw)
"I found an article citation, do we have the journal?" Check Electronic Journal Finder. Try Googling and sites like ResearchGate and Academia. Check author home page, check institutional repository at author school. Free trial at journal? Check with library. As last result, consider a respectful, friendly email to author expressing interest in their research.
WHEN you think you have exhausted available secondary sources, go back again and look for some more.
Working with Primary Sources
TREATIES
ASIL Research Guide, Treaties
HeinOnline, Treaties and Ageements Library
Status of Partes, Reservations, etc.
United Nations Treaty Collection
U.S. Department of State, Treaties in Force
DRAFTING HISTORY - TRAVAUX PREPARATOIRES
Yale Law School, Collected Travaux Préparatoires
Jonathan Pratter, À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements
CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW / STATE PRACTICE / GENERAL PRINCIPLES
NYU, Researching Customary International Law, State Practice
Consolidated Search Sources
ICC Legal Tools (not just for ICC)
UNITED NATIONS MATERIAL
Research Guides
UN Research Guides
United Nations (CUNY Law)
United Nations Research Guide (Georgetown Law)
United Nations (American Society of International Law)
Consolidated UN Databases
OHCHR, Treaty Body Jurisprudence
UN Treaty Body Database
Universal Human Rights Index
ODS - Official Document System
Other UN Resources
United Nations Law Collection (Hein subscription)
Human Rights Bodies
University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library
Bayefsky.com
Jurisprudence Finder (search)
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
International Criminal Law (Vanderbilt) (Research Guide example)
Court Resources
Core texts & Resources (Rome Statute, Rules of Procedure & Evidence, Elements of Crimes, Regulations of the Court, etc.)
Situations Under Investigation
Example of Case page
ICC Legal Tools (not just for ICC)
ECHR Materials
Factsheets (see, e.g., Gender Identity)
Human Rights Handbooks (see, e.g., Handbook on the Right to Respect for Private and Family Life)
Case Law Analysis
Rules of Court
Case Law Research
HUDOC - Official Source of ECHR Opinions, but despite millions of dollars of development can be very frustrating to use, so consult Help and this Guide on basic questions about the ECHR, and also use . . .
European Union Cases: European Human Rights Reports (Westlaw)