General research tools
Lexis, Westlaw & HeinOnline law journal databases
SSRN (for not yet published scholarship)
News (Westlaw)
New York State Issues
NY State Human Rights Law (Westlaw Annotated)
NY CPL 440.10 (Annotated Westlaw), NY CPL 440.10 (Annotated Lexis)
NY Legislative History (generally)
Legislative history of START Act 2021 (bill jacket)
Legislative history 2010 Act (bill jacket)
440 Motions (Jailhouse Lawyers Manual)
NY FOIL & Federal FOIA page (generally)
NY FOIL is Article 6—Freedom of Information Law McKinney's has an annotated version that has the same research tools as are available for other statutes. Regulations are found at 21 NYCRR §§ 1401.1-1401.10. Dep't of State Comm. on Open Government, FOIL Advisory Opinions & FOIL Case Summaries (2010-2013)
Article 78 (Westlaw Annotated)
Other States / 50 State Surveys
If you need to compare/contrast different states on a particular issue start with sources like law review articles about the issue that might look at national trends and use different states as examples.
If you need to research a specific state's laws in a state you may be less familiar with, google State Name + Legal Research Guide to get background. Do this again/ repeatedly if you are researching specific types of issues (e.g., Legal research guide on Legislative History Research in Colorado).
If you need to compare all 50 states, know in advance that they are labor intensive and difficult. Some things to do to try to help out. Check out 50 State Surveys on Westlaw in case there is one on your topic, or a related topic, check out American Law Reports to see if there are any on your (or a related topic), search law review articles to see if there is an article on the issue that might compare state laws (even if just in a footnote), check out National Conference of State Legislatures to see whether they have relevant resources or reports, and also look for (and Google) to see whether there are any organization working in this area that might be tracking such laws across all states (for example, see this page on death penalty laws from the Death Penalty Information Center.
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)
Litigating International Disputes in U.S. Courts (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
Georgetown Law, Treaty Research
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)