The following external links are gathered for the convenience of legal researchers interested in disaster law. The IFRC can take no responsibility for their content. Researchers may also find the IFRC's own Disaster Law Database useful.
International law and norms
- UN Treaty Collection , maintained by the UN Office of Legal Affairs, includes information about treaties deposited at the UN
Regional law and norms
- EUR-Lex provides direct free access to European Union law
Comparative databases of national law
- ECOLEX, maintained by Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the United Nations Environment Programme, compiles national environmental legislation
- FAOLEX, maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization, collects laws related to food, agriculture and the environment
- WorldLII, maintained by seven cooperating legal information institutes, consolidates legal databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries
- N-Lex - European national laws
- Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, provides links to national law sites as well as other online databases
- Government Gazettes Online, maintained by the University of Michigan, includes links to official gazettes from a number of countries
- Foreign Laws Online, maintained by the University of Wisconsin, includes links to other legal databases
Other resources
- Reliefweb, maintained by UN OCHA, includes resources on current and past disaster operations as well as policy and training documents
- Preventionweb, maintained by UN ISDR, includes resources on laws, policies, and many other aspects of disaster risk reduction organized by country and theme
- EM-DAT International Disaster Database, maintained by the Université catholique de Louvain, includes data on disasters around the world
- Disasters & the Law, maintained by the University of California at Berkeley Law Library, includes links to national law and articles on disaster law
- Disasters, a peer-reviewed quarterly journal reporting on all aspects of disaster studies, policy and management
- Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, a peer reviewed journal aimed at promoting the rule of law in humanitarian emergency situations
- Jurisprudence of Disasters, Law as Contributory, Law as Corrective, the website of the Law and Society Association aimed at fostering the exchange of ideas among disaster law researchers
- Derecho y Desastre, Comentarios, investigaciones e imágenes acerca de la relación entre el Derecho y los desastres, a blog maintained by faculty at the Catholic Universtiy of Peru Law School (in Spanish)
- International Disaster Law Project, a cooperative reserach project by the Universities of Bologna, Roma Tre, Uninettuno and Pisa, S. Anna
- Minerva Centre for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, transnational forum between University of Haifa and University of Hamburg
- Changing Disasters, an interdisciplinary research project embracing all six Faculties of the University of Copenhagen.