Spotlight
New Database: International Law in Domestic Courts
The Boley Law Library now subscribes to Oxford University Press' invaluable new case reporting database, International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC). ILDC provides the full text of important public international law cases decided in domestic courts around the world.
In recent decades international law has expanded to include matters that exist not only between states, but also within states. Examples include issues of security, protection of human rights and protection of the environment, all intertwined with domestic law. Thus, domestic courts around the world are interpreting and applying international law as never before.
ILDC is the only reporting service that comprehensively covers the application of international law in domestic courts. Legal experts in the field report on cases from over sixty-five countries, selecting the most relevant domestic cases that examine issues of international law. This online service highlights the full range of jurisprudence around the globe in a format that makes it easy to pinpoint specific legal issues, and to compare how these issues have been dealt with in different jurisdictions.
ILDC's legal scholars monitors local courts in their assigned jurisdictions, and selects the most relevant cases that examine issues of international law. Their expert commentary highlights the most salient points of the case and provides legal context to understand the implications of how national courts have interpreted International Law in reaching their decisions. English translations of key passages, along with full judgments in the original language, make this a valuable tool for lawyers and legal scholars in all practice settings.
A rigorous selection process seeks to include both those cases that are relevant for the identification and interpretation of principles and rules of general international law (principles of jurisdiction, immunities, state succession, responsibility, general principles) as well as cases relevant for the identification and interpretation of principles and rules of international law in certain functional fields, such as human rights law, international criminal law, and many more.
Features include:
- Traditional headnotes supplemented by analytical commentary on each case
- Full texts of all decisions in the original language
- Translations of all non-English language decisions
- Browse by country, key category or party
- Search the full text or by keyword, date of decision, jurisdiction or citation
- An archive of cases dating back to 2000 (to start)
- New cases and updates added fortnightly (over 150 each year)
Try out International Law in Domestic Courts for youself.
Find out more about ILDC
note: parts of this text were adopted from Oxford University Press publications.
