• The United Nations Charter, Articles 1, 55, 56

• The Universal Declaration on Human Rights (1948)

• The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)

• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)

• The Refugees Convention and Protocol (1967)

• The Vienna Declaration, adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights on 25 June 1993

• Harris, Cases and Materials on International Law (5th ed., 1998), Chapter 9

• Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law (5th ed., 1998), Chapter 25

• Vasciannie, International Law and Selected Human Rights in Jamaica (2002)

• Robertson and Merrills, Human Rights in the World: An Introduction to the Study of the International Protection of Human Rights (3rd ed., 1989), esp. Chapter 9

• Malanczuk, Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law (7th revised ed., 1997), Chapter 14

• Meron, 80 AJIL 1 (1986) ("On the Hierarchy of International Human Rights"

• Farer and Gaer, "The U.N. and Human Rights: At the End of the Beginning", in Roberts and Kingsbury (ed.), United Nations, Divided World (2nd ed., 1993), pp. 240-296.

• Steiner and Alston, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morality (2nd ed., 2000), especially pp. 366-402

• Crawford, "The UN Human Rights Treaty System: A System in Crisis?", in Steiner and Crawford (eds.), The Future of UN Human Rights Treaty Monitoring (2000), pp. 1-14

• Ignatieff, "Human Rights: The Midlife Crisis", New York Review of Books, May 20, 1999, p. 58

• Schabas, The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law (2nd ed., 1997), pp. 1-191

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, The State of the World's Refugees 1997-8: A Humanitarian Agenda, Chapters 1, 2 and 5

• Vasciannie, Here and Elsewhere: Short Essays on Local and International Affairs, 1995-1997 (1998), pp. 122-137

• The Law of the Sea Convention (1982)

• The Geneva Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone (1958)

• The Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf (1958)

• The Geneva Convention on the High Seas (1958)

• Harris, Cases and Materials on the Law of the Sea (5th ed., 1998), Chapter 7

• Churchill and Lowe, The Law of the Sea (3rd ed., 1999), Chapters 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 12

• Vasciannie, Land-locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States in the International Law of the Sea (1990), pp. 20-33, 34-79, 80-101

• Kirton and Vasciannie, "Deep Seabed Mining under the Law of the Sea Convention and the Implementation Agreement: Developing Country Perspectives", Social and Economic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2, June 2002, p. 63

• Wagner and Lofrumento, "It's Time to Ratify the Law of the Sea Treaty", The Washington Quarterly, Vo. 22, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 17-20

• Vasciannie, Here and Elsewhere: Short Essays in Local and International Affairs 1995-1997 (1998), pp. 88-94

• The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended

• The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971, as amended

• The United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)

• The Law of the Sea Convention (1982)

• United Nations International Drug Control Programme, World Drug Report, Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 5

• A Report of the National Commission on Ganja to the Rt. Hon. P.J. Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica (the "Chevannes Report"), especially pp. 42-56

• Vasciannie, 26 WILJ 1 (2001)("In re Ganja: International Law and the Decriminalization of Marijuana in Jamaica")

• Griffith, Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty under Siege (1997), especially pp. 25-113

• Morris, Caribbean Maritime Security (1994), pp. 132-165

• Vasciannie, Here and Elsewhere, pp. 95-121

• Harris, Cases and Material in International Law (5th ed., 1998), Chapter 8

• Asante, 37 ICLQ 588 (1988) ("International Law and Foreign Investment: A Reappraisal")

• United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations (UNCTC), Bilateral Investment Treaties (1988)

• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Bilateral Investment Treaties in the Mid-1990s (1998)

• UNCTAD, Trends in International Investment Agreements: An Overview (UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements)(1999)

• Muchlinski, Multinational Enterprises and the Law (1999), especially Chapters 1 and 17

• Denza and Brooks, 36 ICLQ 908 (1987) ("Investment Protection Treaties: United Kingdom Experience")

• Vasciannie, "The Namibian Foreign Investments Act: Balancing Interests in the New Concessionary Era", Foreign Investment Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1992), p. 114