Treaties
Treaty Collections | Specific Treaties
Treaty collections
General
The Avalon Project
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (at Yale Law School)
American Diplomacy 1778 to the Present: Bilateral Treaties and Agreements
Great collection as part of the Avalon ProjectAmerican Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties and Agreements
Great collection as part of the Avalon ProjectCold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States
Part of the Avalon ProjectSlavery
Treaties, agreements and other documents - Part of the Avalon ProjectThe Laws of War
Great collection as part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. Includes Treaties, Conventions, Agreements and a search engine.
The Australian Treaty Library
This site contains an Australian Treaty list (monthly updates, introduction, bilateral treaties, multilaterial treaties, keyword index, subject index), Australian Treaties (Australian Treaty Series [full text] and Australian Treaties not yet in force), Related Materials (national interest analysis, select documents on international affairs, list of multilaterial treaties under negotiation or consideration, status list and reports), Other Relevant sites, information about the library and information about treaty-making.
Foreign and International Law - Treaties
From WASHLaw - contains sections on environmental law treaties, foreign trade regulation treaties, GATT, human rights treaties, NAFTA, legal research on treaties, texts on treaties, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, United States Treaties, and you can search treaties alphabetically.
Hong Kong Treaties Index
From HKLII
Multilaterals Project
From the Fletcher School, Tufts University - Multilateral Conventions organized by Subject - or search the text files of the Multilaterals Project. The site also provides a list of Treaty Secretariates with known internet servers, links to other collections of international law and miscellaneous historical documents.
Pacific Islands Treaty Series
From PacLII
Treaties and International Agreements (AustLII)
Browse by Country, Subject, International Organisations & Bodies, Multi-National Collections and other indexes.
United Nations Documents: Chronological
Great collection as part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
United Nations Treaty Database
This service requires registration. Overview of the UN treaty collection, how to register/fee information, sample access to online publications.
Specific
EnvironmentalEnvironmental Treaties and Resource
ENTRI is ‘a fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators. The ENTRI system is unique in allowing you to construct queries that integrate these different types of data.’ It includes descriptive information and links to relevant environmental treaties and a variety of means by which you can search for environmental treaties.
Human rights
Human Rights Treaties and Other Instruments
From the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - links to Human Rights Treaties and other Instruments by key word, subject matter, or view a list.
Slavery
Treaties, agreements and other documents - Part of the Avalon Project
War
Cold War Diplomacy - Defense Treaties of the United States
Part of the Avalon Project
The Laws of War
Great collection as part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. Includes Treaties, Conventions, Agreements and a search engine.
Specific Treaties
International trade
Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes
UNCITRAL Convention on International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes 1988
Bills of Lading
International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading (the Hague Rules 1924) Protocol to amend the International Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules of Law Relating to Bills of Lading (Hague-Visby Rules 1968)
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Vienna Sales Convention)
UN Convention for the International Sale of Goods (Pace University)
Annotated text of the CISG (Guides to each article, cases interpreting each article, legislative history of each article, scholarly writing on each article), cases on the CISG (over 500 - general search or by country), CISG Treaty Texts and Information (texts in different languages, identification of contracting sites, texts of ULIS and ULF), scholarly materials on the CISG (Introduction to the CISG, UNCITRAL outline of issues, bibliography of the CISG, full texts of writings on the CISG), more on the CISG (new features of this database, links to other international trade databases, search multiple websites simultaneously), the Pace Institute and CISG events (goals and collegues of the Institute, the Pace Arbitration moot on the CISG, the Pace essay competition on the CISG)
GATT
See also WTO
GATT 1994
From the WTO Website
International Commercial Arbitration
UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration
From the Lex Mercatoria site, above.
International Sale of Goods
Convention on the Law Applicable to Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Hague 1985)
Uniform Law on International Sale of Goods 1964
Uniform Law on the Formation of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1964
Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods 1974
International Transport Agreements
Sea
United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (the Hamburg Rules 1978)
Air
Land
Uniform Rules Concerning the Contract for International Carriage of Goods by Rail (CIM)
Part of the Lex Mercatoria site.
Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods By Road (CMR - Geneva, 19 May 1956)
Part of the Lex Mercatoria site
North American Free Trade Agreement
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
WTO
Official Documents of the WTO
From the WTO Website
Law of Treaties
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
Part of the AustLII site - includes also when the Treaty entered into force in Australia.
War
Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
Signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949.
