Free web sites

UN Treaty Series online - http://treaties.un.org/Pages/Home.aspx?lang=en - this contains a collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946. It also includes a collection of treaties and subsequent treaty actions registered with and published by the Secretariat of the League of Nations between 1920 -1944.

Flare Index to Treaties - http://ials.sas.ac.uk/treatyindex.htm - this site has information on over 1,500 of the most significant multilateral treaties. Each entry includes information about where the full text of each treaty can be found in print with live links to electronic versions on the internet, where available. The index covers treaties concluded between 1856 and the present. Searching can be done using subject keywords, words from the official or popular title, the reference number allocated to a treaty by either the Council of Europe or the International Labour Organization, the date on which the treaty was concluded (either the precise date or just the year), or the place where the treaty was concluded.

Web sites of international organisations - some organisations act as depositaries or secretariats for certain multilateral treaties e.g. Hague Conference on International Law, WIPO etc.

National web sites:

Hard copy sources

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Multilateral Treaties: Index and Current Status by Bowman and Harris (1984, supplement 1993) for multilateral treaties whether UK is a party or not. Command Paper numbers and other citations are given. Inner Temple, Lincolns Inn and Gray's Inn Libraries have this work.

Multilateral Treaty Calendar by Wiktor, 1648 -1995 - details are given as to where the printed text can be found.  Inner Temple and Lincoln's Inn Libraries have this book.

UN Treaty Series - all treaties made by members of the UN have to be registered with the UN Secretariat and published by it. Middle Temple Library has the UN Treaty Series in hard copy. There are chronological and alphabetical indexes to this.

League of Nations Treaty Series 1920-1946 - predecessor to the UN Treaty Series. Middle Temple Library has this.

International Legal Materials - this journal contains the texts of selected treaties. Inner Temple and Gray's Inn Libraries have this series, 1962 onwards.