Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL)

Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL)

Access
ORIL is available on site and off site to all academic members of IALS Library.

Content
IALS Library’s ORIL subscription covers five modules:-

• International Courts of General Jurisdiction – cases from the International Court of Justice, Permanent Court of International Justice, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and Permanent Court of Arbitration.
   
• International Criminal Law – cases from the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and other institutions.
   
• International Human Rights Law – cases from the African Commission and African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, the East African Community, ECOWAS, the Southern African Development Community, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, several UN committees and other bodies.
   
• International Investment Claims - all publicly available awards and decisions in international investment arbitration cases, together with enforcement or review decisions from national courts. Includes cases from ICSID, the ICC International Court of Arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, UNCITRAL and many other bodies.
   
• International Law in Domestic Courts – international law cases from almost 100 different jurisdictions, ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Scholarly analysis is provided for each case and, where the judgment is not in English, key passages are translated.

Information from the Oxford Law Citator appears at the start of each report: parallel citations, information about other procedural stages, and so on. Click on the ‘Oxford Law Citator’ button (on the left) for full details. The Citator includes links to other Oxford Public International Law services and to external websites.

There is limited access to the two other ORIL modules, International Trade Law and International Law in EU Courts, as they are outside the IALS subscription. Brief details can be browsed and will come up in search results, but the full reports are not available.

Browsing
Select ‘Browse all’ to browse the whole ORIL database by subject, date,  module, jurisdiction, type of case or state party.

Each module can be browsed by subject, date, jurisdiction and other criteria.

Searching 
The default search facility covers all modules ('This site'). 

To limit your search to a one module, click ‘Browse All’, select a module from the options on the left, then enter key words in ‘Search within results’.

Advanced Search allows users to search by party name, citation, date, OUP reference*, subject, state party and other criteria.

* The reference given to each case by Oxford University Press, consisting of the module abbreviation, a case number, a jurisdiction code and the year, for example ILDC 2434 (DE 1986), meaning International Law in Domestic Courts, case 2434, Germany, 1986.

Reading and downloading
Content on ORI can be read online in HTML format. An accessible PDF copy of the content can also be read and downloaded by selecting the ‘Download PDF’ icon. There are also options to print, email and save.

Help
Help pages and FAQs are available via links at the top of the screen.

Accessibility
View ORIL's accessibility information

The ORIL platform complies with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, and provides the majority of its content in accessible formats.

Accessible copies of content can be requested where this is not already available.