Free Online Educational Resources: United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL)

April 20, 2020

Given the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the present need for online educational materials and resources, the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) is happy to draw our attention to their free online educational resources. 

The AVL is a unique online multimedia resource, which provides high quality international law training and research materials free of charge and can be accessed in the vicinity of any home at: https://legal.un.org/avl/. 

The AVL has over 600 lectures on virtually every subject of international law available in the Lecture Series pillar, which have been recently complemented by a series of introductory lectures on core topics of international law as a part of the latest Mini-Series project. The Historic Archives contains over 100 legal instruments with introductory notes prepared by internationally recognized experts, audiovisual materials displaying the history of the negotiation and adoption of significant legal instruments, the procedural history as well as the text of the legal instruments and other key documents. The Research Library contains links to scholarly writings and other international law-related resources of interest to the researcher and practitioner alike. In particular, the International Law Handbook, a collection of instruments used by the Codification Division as study materials for its training courses under the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, is available online in the Research Library in English and French. 

Additionally, the Audiovisual Library of International Law is available as a podcast at the following link: https://soundcloud.com/un_avl. It can also be accessed on Apple and Google devices through their respective preinstalled podcast application by searching: “Audiovisual Library of International Law”.