Not sure where to start? The Research Guide provides several options for researching the work product of the International Law Commission available on this site.

Consult a summary of the Commission's consideration of a particular topic or research its legislative history in the online Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission.

Access individual texts, instruments and reports adopted by the Commission together with commentaries.

Research the documentation of the Commission, by session/year or by topic. Access the annual reports of the Commission.

Search the web site of the Commission, including full text search of its documentation.

The Commission will hold its sixty-fifth session at the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva from 6 May to 7 June and 8 July to 9 August 2013.

List of documents being considered at the sixty-fifth session.

The report of the International Law Commission on its sixty-fourth session (2012) is available.

The addendum, to the 2011 report, containing the text of the Guide to Practice on Reservations to Treaties and commentaries thereto, is available (E, F, S, R, C, A).

Following the resignation of Stephen C. Vasciannie (Jamaica) on 22 July 2012, there is, at present, one casual vacancy in the membership of the Commission. See documents A/CN.4/655 (E, F, S, R, C, A) and Add. 1 (E, F, S, R, C, A) and 2 (E, F, S, R, C, A)

Current status of the work of the Commission.

The following topics are on the programme of work of the Commission:

• Expulsion of aliens
• The obligation to extradite or prosecute (aut dedere aut judicare)
• Protection of persons in the event of disasters
• Immunity of State officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction
• Subsequent agreements and subsequent practice in relation to the interpretation of treaties
• The Most-Favoured-Nation clause
• Provisional application of treaties
• Formation and evidence of customary international law