Collection
Systematic Classification of International Law
May 30, 2017The Online Public Access Catalog includes bibliographical references to books, periodicals and articles that are available in the Peace Palace Library. The Library possesses an in-house systematic classification, modernised and updated as of 01-01-2016, which is used to classify books, essays and articles. Originally created in 1916, the systematic classification supports your search with regard to content and is divided into five sections.
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The Library’s Arabic Law collection
November 28, 2016Since 2011 we have built an extensive collection of books in the Arabic language. The books come from diverse countries, from Mauritania and Morocco to Egypt and Sudan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Oman. The main topics we’ve selected are: public international law, international criminal law, Islamic law (almost 400 titles), national positive law and related subjects. In our Arabic collection you will find issues concerning human rights, the rights of women, children and minorities, freedom of religion, slavery, borders, humanitarian law, water, the Nile, constitutional law, the Islamic state, suffrage, Islamic criminal law, corruption, medical ethics, family law, commercial law, inheritance law, civil procedure, criminal procedure, etc. You will find also comparative studies between Islamic and positive law, contemporary collections of fatwas and judgments and to a lesser extent books on international relations, history and political issues, such as the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria.
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New Publication: Recueil des cours, Collected Courses, Tome/Volume 379
November 22, 2016ISBN 978-90-04-32127-4, Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. With contributions from V. Lowe, K. Boele-Woelki, C. Fresnedo de Aguirre and R. Ben Achour.
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Collected Courses = Recueil des cours
July 28, 2016Since 1923, The Hague Academy of International Law has organized courses on Public and Private International Law at the Peace Palace. These lectures, by the world’s most prominent legal scholars, are subsequently published in the prestigious Collected Courses of the Academy. The website of the Library will keep you informed on new volumes in this series.
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Scheldt River collection
The Scheldt is a transboundary river which originates in North-Western France and runs through Western Belgium and the South-West of the Netherlands. The Scheldt Estuary is shared between Belgium and the Netherlands. The Dutch section of the estuary is called the Western Scheldt, and is of vital importance as navigation channel to the port of […]
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New Publication: Recueil des cours, Collected Courses, Tome/Volume 368
October 13, 2014ISBN 978-90-04-26795-4, Hague Academy of International Law, Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. With contributions from Lucius Caflisch, Eyal Benvenisti and Ki Gab Park.
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Database: Jura.Be (LegalWorld)
September 30, 2014Jura.be is an online Library from Kluwer Belgium. The database is multi-disciplinary and for each discipline, an extensive range of legislation, case law and jurisprudence is available. Jura.be contains summaries of published judgments with a reference to the journal in which they are published; the full texts of the decisions of the Court of Cassation and of the Court of Arbitration are also available.
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New Publications: Recueil des cours, Collected Courses, Tome/Volume 353, 361, 362, 363, 364 and 367
September 1, 2014The Academy is a prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. All courses at the Academy are published in the Recuel des cours/Collected Courses.
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New Publication: Recueil des cours, Collected Courses, Tome/Volume 367
June 5, 2014The Academy is a prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.
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New Publication: Recueil des cours, Collected Courses, Tome/Volume 366
May 6, 2014The Academy is a prestigious international institution for the study and teaching of Public and Private International Law and related subjects. All courses at the Academy are, in principle, published in the language in which they were delivered in the Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law.
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