Legal Tools

What are the ICC Legal Tools?

The Legal Tools Project aspires to equip users with the legal information, digests and software required to work effectively with international criminal law. It seeks to serve as a complete virtual library on international criminal law and justice. The Tools comprise at present over 44,000 documents and legal digests. Some 13 collections of legal documents are included, together with four legal research and reference tools developed by lawyers connected with the Court and external partners: the Case Matrix, the Elements Digest, the Proceedings Digest and the Means of Proof Digest. Text in these tools - or the organization of legal information in the collections - does not necessarily represent views of the ICC, any of its Organs or any participants in the proceedings before the ICC.

The ICC aims to provide the general public with free access to the collections and databases of basic legal information in international criminal law through this website. Additionally, criminal jurisdictions, counsel and NGOs that work on core international crimes cases may seek to have access to the Case Matrix which encompasses the Elements Commentary, the Means of Proof Document and key documents from the collections and databases.

The ICC draws on the support of outside partners for the development and maintenance of all the Legal Tools services. With their assistance, the Court expects to stimulate further contributions and engage new partners to expand and improve the Legal Tools.

The following brochures on the Legal Tools and the Case Matrix are available for download:

     Legal Tools - English| French    
     Case Matrix - English | French

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Table of contents	Accessing the Legal Tools
A list with a short description of the collections, databases and applications comprising the Legal Tools.	In order to access the Legal Tools collections and databases, you must first accept the applicable conditions and terms of use. Please note that the hyperlinks to some documents have not yet been activated for reasons of intellectual property rights.   •  Last updated: 21.04.2006
Current work on the tools	Project background
The inclusion of a search engine and the collection of metadata will improve the accessibility and interactivity of the Legal Tools.	The Legal Tools Project was started by the Legal Advisory Section of the Office of the Prosecutor and has since become a Court-wide project.
Partners	Copyright policy
The Court has outsourced the work to develop and maintain the Legal Tools to outside partners.	The ICC is mindful of the rights of copyright owners over documents included in the Legal Tools.
How to contribute?	Comments or questions?
Join the Legal Tools community by, for example, by contributing materials.	Please send us your suggestions for improvement of the Legal Tools or queries about the tools after you have read the information on this site.