Databases
- T.M.C. Asser Institute International Crime Database [English]
The International Crime Database (ICD) offers a comprehensive database on international crimes tried by national, international and internationalised courts, as well as general reference information on international crimes, academic articles and news, videos, working papers (ICD Briefs) and relevant links to other useful databases/websites on this topic.
- T.M.C. Asser Institute Nexus on Conflict and Crime [English]
The Nexus on Conflict and Crime website provides information on the activities of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in the field of conflict and crime, namely: international humanitarian law (IHL), international criminal law (ICL), transnational criminal law (TCL) and the legal aspects of counter-terrorism (LACT), as well as the interrelationships between these areas.
- REDRESS Casework database [English]
A database with case law on torture and related crimes.
- Case Law Database [English]
A gateway to the jurisprudence of the ICTR, ICTY, and IRMCT Appeals Chambers. It provides direct access to extracts of key judgements and decisions rendered by the ICTR, ICTY, and IRMCT Appeals Chambers since their inception, as well as to full-text versions of the corresponding appeal judgements and decisions.
- Eurojust, National jurisprudence database on core international crimes [English]
Provides a searchable selection of national judicial decisions on core international crimes. The Genocide Prosecution Network gathers key decisions from EU Member States. Unofficial English translations are provided courtesy of the Genocide Prosecution Network Secretariat and Eurojust.
- Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, RULAC: the Rule of Law in Armed Conflict [English]
RULAC online portal systematically qualifies situations of armed violence using the definition of armed conflict under international humanitarian law. RULAC also identifies the parties to these conflicts and applicable international law. It currently monitors more than 110 armed conflicts involving at least 55 states and more than 70 armed non-State actors.
- ICRC, National implementation of IHL database [English]
Collects legislation and jurisprudence on the implementation of IHL norms and treaties.
- ICRC, Customary IHL database [English]
This database is an online version of the ICRC’s study on customary international humanitarian law (IHL), originally published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. The 2005 study consists of two volumes: volume I (rules) and volume II (practice). Its practice part is regularly updated. The rules remain the same as in 2005.
- ICC Legal Tools [English]
The open access Tools comprise the ICC Legal Tools Database (including the ICC Case Law Database), together with legal research and reference tools developed by lawyers with expertise in international criminal law and justice: the ICC Case Matrix, the Elements Digest, and the Means of Proof Digest. The ICC Case Law Database provides free and easy access to the Court's jurisprudence on, among other topics, core international crimes and international criminal procedure, the rights of the accused and the rights of victims.
- Trial International, Universal Jurisdiction Database [English]
The universal jurisdiction database offers an overview of major criminal cases related to universal jurisdiction worldwide, as well as some cases of international crimes based on active or passive personality jurisdiction. These cases also feature in TRIAL International’s Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review (UJAR), published each year.
This map provides an overview of legal proceedings regarding the conflict in Ukraine brought before national authorities on the basis of ‘Universal Jurisdiction’. Universal Jurisdiction is a specific form of extra-territorial jurisdiction which entitles a State to prosecute and punish the perpetrators of international crimes which are “so serious” that they affect the international community as a whole (i.e. genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, known collectively as “core international crimes”), regardless of where these crimes may have been committed or of the nationality of the perpetrators and the victims.