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International Agreements

International agreements, also known as "treaties", "conventions", and "covenants", are the fundamental primary sources of international law. Written by representatives of multiple governments, they generally attain legal effect when countries ratify them as components of their national codes.

How to Research U.S. Treaties
Foreign Countries' Treaty Collections
Glossary of treaty terms
Subject Access : Fletcher & Eisil
Most Cited
Chronological Access
State Department -Treaty Affairs
Flare Index to Treaties (multilateral, easy searching)
U.N. Treaty Collection (licensed use only)
Hein Online (licensed use only)
Treaty Citation Formats
International Law Commission

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.