Foreign & International News Research
News sources have clues and vocabulary to help you identify people, organizations, and documents connected with legal issues. Use the clues and vocabulary to identify and search in other types of sources.
- Foreign News Services - Link to foreign press outlets
- International News Services - Links to sites that compile worldwide legal news.
- Global Legal Monitor-Newsletter about major changes in foreign law.
- Diplomacy Monitor (Issues & Topics) - Press releases from governments & international organizations.
- International Judicial Monitor - Foreign and international courts and major cases.
- Foreign & Regional Int. Law Yearbooks - Through Hein Online
- Yearbook of UN Law - Max Planck Institute
- Ethnic News Watch (licensed)- Ethnic, minority, & native sources
- U.S. Federal News Service - Interview transcripts and press releases via Lexis.
- Daily Analysis-Foreign Relations (licensed resource) - Foreign policy developments
- World Trade Online licensed resource
- Federal Broadcast Information Service -Foreign Intelligence up to mid-90’s.
If any of these resources ask you for a user name and password, log-in to https://sremote.pitt.edu with your Pitt user name and password and look for the source in the University’s database list. If you still can’t get in, you will have to access it from a computer inside the law school building.