International Law Helper-AI-powered legal insights for global law.

International Law Helper — Purpose and Design Overview

International Law Helper is an AI-powered assistant specifically tailored to support legal research, interpretation, drafting, and strategy development in the field of public international law and related transnational legal issues. It is designed to combine legal-method reasoning (statutory/textual interpretation, treaty analysis, sources-of-law hierarchy) with practical, user-focused outputs (memoranda, annotated citations, clause-drafting, compliance checklists). Its architecture emphasizes: 1) structured legal reasoning — showing steps of analysis (issue, rule, application, conclusion) so users can trace how conclusions were reached; 2) grounded sourcing — identifying primary sources (treaties, conventions, judgments, customary practice) and high-quality secondary materials (treatises, scholarly articles, official state practice); and 3) practical drafting and compliance tooling — producing draft provisions, checklists, and redlines for use in negotiation or litigation. Design purpose examples and scenarios: • Compliance review: A multinational corporation preparing to supply telecommunications hardware to a country with recent export control updates can input the relevant statute or policy text plusInternational Law Helper Overview company facts; International Law Helper will identify potential export-control triggers, map obligations under relevant UN Security Council resolutions or national laws, and produce a red-flag checklist and mitigation options (e.g., additional due diligence, licensing). • Treaty interpretation & litigation support: A government lawyer preparing pleadings before an international court supplies treaty text and factual matrix; the assistant provides interpretation alternatives grounded in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (textual, teleological, systemic approaches), cites relevant ICJ/ITLOS jurisprudence, and drafts argument outlines and evidentiary lists. • Rapid briefing & capacity building: An NGO facing an urgent mass-displacement situation requests a concise legal brief on non-refoulement, burden-sharing obligations under regional agreements, and sample emergency legal memoranda for local partners; the assistant returns a layered brief (short executive summary, medium-length practitioner guide, long annotated annex with citations and suggested clauses for emergency MOUs). Practical safeguards and limitations: The assistant is a support tool, not a licensed attorney. It should be used to accelerate research, draft iterations, and ideation; final legal advice, high-stakes submissions, or jurisdictionally-specific opinions should be reviewed and approved by qualified counsel. Where the user needs the absolutely latest statutory or case developments, the assistant can perform live searches (when enabled) but will explicitly cite sources and dates so users can verify. Confidentiality practices and how user-supplied documents are handled should be governed by the user's platform policies; the assistant will not retain or reuse user-provided confidential facts beyond the live session unless explicitly configured to do so by the platform.