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Pumping Iron 3: The Pumping Iron 3: The LibrariansLibrarians

Presentation byLyonette Louis-Jacques

University of Chicago Law [email protected]

CALL, May 28, 2001

A behind-the-scenes look at…A behind-the-scenes look at…

How a foreign and international law librarian goes about providing top-notch, efficient, and effective service, or

How to avoid walking up stairs, lifting heavy books, roaming around library stacks, etc., looking for the right resource, and

Have happy customers!

Presenting…Presenting…

The Best of the Web for Foreign

and International

Law

Best of the Web, Part I: Best of the Web, Part I: General F/IL PagesGeneral F/IL Pages

Your Foreign and International Law Pages U Toronto, U Laval ASIL’s ERG Harvard, NYU LLRX.com LAWLINKS LII, AustLII

http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/

http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/ress/droit/

http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm

http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm

http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ref/ils_ref/ils_refer.htm

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/

http://www.llrx.com/resources4.htm

http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/

http://www.law.cornell.edu/

http://www.austlii.edu.au/links/World/

International Law Page

University of Toronto’s Law Library Page

Site de la Bibliothèque de droit de l'Université Laval

ASIL’s Guide to Researching International Law on the Internet

Harvard’s Research Guides

Selective Links to Full Text Foreign Law Databases

Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX.com)

LAWLINKS: Legal Information on the Internet

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII)

AustLII’s World Law Links Page

Best of the Web, Part II: Best of the Web, Part II: Specialized ResourcesSpecialized Resources

World Bank Law Library Yale’s Avalon Project Lex Mercatoria IGO websites (UN, etc.) NGOs/Assocs. Gov’t Agencies Research Centers/Think Tanks

http://www4.worldbank.org/legal/lawlibrary.html

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

http://www.lexmercatoria.org/

The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

United Nations Documentation Centre

European Union Legal Documents (EUR-Lex)

European Conventions (CoE Treaties)

OAS’ Foreign Trade Information System (SICE)

Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

U.S. Department of State

TreatiesTreaties

LexUM/DFAIT’s Canado-American Treaties

AustLII/DFAT’s Treaties Library

United Nations’ Treaty Collection

Yale’s Avalon Project Fletcher’s

Multilaterals Project Gov’t Agencies, IGOs,

NGOs, etc.

http://www2.lexum.umontreal.ca/ca_us/

http://www2.lexum.umontreal.ca/ca_us/

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/

http://untreaty.un.org/

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html

Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

United Nations Treaty Collection

The Avalon Project’s Treaty Collections

Treaties (Cont’d)Treaties (Cont’d)

U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guide

Other Stefanie Weigman’s

Guide

http://www.llrx.com/features/ustreaty.htm

http://www.llrx.com/features/non-ustreaty.htm

http://www.llrx.com/features/non-ustreaty.htm

Finding Foreign Law Online Finding Foreign Law Online Generally, and in TranslationGenerally, and in Translation

NYU Foreign Primary Law on the Web GLIN Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global Harvard

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/

http://www.law.uh.edu/librarians/tmulligan/foreignlaw.html

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/GLINv1/glintro.htm

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/global.html

http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ref/ils_ref/annotated/foreign.htm

Foreign Primary Law on the Web (Mulligan)

Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global

National Laws By Subject (Harvard)

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

Finding Foreign Law/in Finding Foreign Law/in Translation (Cont’d)Translation (Cont’d)

Check research guides Check OPACs Check indexes Contact embassies Use listservs *Reynolds & Flores

Getting Ready for the Getting Ready for the Lightweight Questions Lightweight Questions

Read the basic international legal research guides Read international news sources (see

Harvard’s page and the ASIL ERG (so you’re prepared for requests for hot documents in the news)

Monitor listservs such as INT-LAW and EURO-LEX (where you can also ask for help)

Attend conferences (see the IJLI “International Calendar” for dates) and get to know the foreign and international law specialists. Network!

Bookmark & try new links right away!

http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ref/ils_ref/annotated/news.htm

http://www.asil.org/resource/lists1.htm

http://www.iall.org/calendar.htm

Monitoring Developments in International Law and Resources

Harvard’s International Law News Page

The Archives of the INT-LAW E-Mail List

How to Subscribe to INT-LAWHow to Subscribe to INT-LAW

Send an e-mail message to:

[email protected]

With only the following text in the body:

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Archives of the EURO-LEX E-mail List

Subscribing to EURO-LEXSubscribing to EURO-LEX

To subscribe to the EURO-LEX list,send an e-mail message to:

[email protected]

With only the following text in the body:

subscribe euro-lex Your Name




International Calendar for Legal Information Events

Personal Trainers (Specialists Personal Trainers (Specialists in FCIL Research)in FCIL Research)

Foreign Law Librarians

ProfessorsDocumentalists/IGO Librarians

Lawyers

AALL’s FCIL SIS Expert Help Project

Standard Weights (Books)Standard Weights (Books)

Reynolds & Flores World Almanac CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s

Law Digest

World Treaty Index Encyclopedia of

Public International Law

International Legal Materials (ILM)

http://www.foreignlawguide.com/

http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/tifindex.html

Reynolds & Flores

U.S. Treaties in Force (as of January 1, 2000)

Standard Weights (Cont’d)Standard Weights (Cont’d)

Internet search engines (such as Google) Online catalogues (union catalogues are great!) Journal article databases and indexes (UnCover,

RAVE, ASIL, Geneva’s WebVoyager, etc.) Gateways/Portals/Meta-Pages (SOSIG, BUBL,

Yahoo!, Hieros Gamos, JURIST) Directories, listservs, & other “people” sources

Question #1: Does the North Question #1: Does the North American Commission for American Commission for

Environmental Cooperation Environmental Cooperation have a Web page?have a Web page?

Yes, at http://www.cec.org/ (there is a link to it from the NAFTA Secretariat page)

Also NYU has a link from its International Environment Law page; ditto with the ASIL ERG for International Environmental Law

http://www.cec.org/

http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/english/index.htm

http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/intenvironment.html

http://www.asil.org/resource/env1.htm

Question #2: What does Question #2: What does “RIDC” stand for?“RIDC” stand for?

Revue internationale de droit comparé! (using Sarah Carter’s wonderful “LawLinks” page of abbreviations)

Alternative sources include searching in a full text journal articles database, searching in an online catalogue, or an Internet search engine, or using Bieber’s or the Bluebook

http://library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/

Question #3: Where can I find Question #3: Where can I find the text of the 1958 New York the text of the 1958 New York

Convention?Convention?

It’s old, but it’s on the Net! The ASIL ERG has a link to it. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards is also at the AustLII Treaties Library (ATS 1975 No. 25)

It also available via other official and unofficial sources such as UNCITRALand InternationalADR

http://www.asil.org/resource/ergintr1.htm

http://www.asser.nl/ica/nyc-eng.htm

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1975/25.html

http://www.uncitral.org/english/texts/arbitration/NY-conv.htm

http://www.internationaladr.com/tc121.htm

Question #4: Where can I find Question #4: Where can I find an English translation of the an English translation of the Israeli GSS Torture Case?Israeli GSS Torture Case?

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has an English summary of it as well as a link to the full text of the English translation from the Israeli Supreme Court (see under “Legal Issues and Rulings”)

B’Tselem also links to the text.

http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/

http://www.btselem.org/

English Summary of Case, with Link to Translated Text

Question #5: Where can I find Question #5: Where can I find the Pope & Talbot v. Canada the Pope & Talbot v. Canada (NAFTA) arbitral decisions?(NAFTA) arbitral decisions?

At the DFAIT NAFTA Dispute Settlement Page!

See also NAFTA Claims website.

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/tna-nac/NAFTA-e.asp

http://www.naftaclaims.com/

Question #7: Where can I find Question #7: Where can I find a 1960 UN Security Council a 1960 UN Security Council

Resolution on Adolf Resolution on Adolf Eichmann?Eichmann?

At the UN Documentation Centre web page (Resolution 138, June 23, 1960)

http://www.un.org/documents/sc/res/1960/s60r138e.pdf

http://www.un.org/documents/sc/res/1960/s60r138e.pdf

Getting Ready for Heavier Getting Ready for Heavier Weights/Tougher QuestionsWeights/Tougher Questions

Attend workshops, seminars, and training courses (both substantive and bibliographic)

Attend specialized database sessions Maintain a personal or institutional web

page READ, READ, READ research guides and

substantive international law articles Do you feel the burn?

Question #8: How do you find Question #8: How do you find the “drafting history” of an the “drafting history” of an international agreement?international agreement?

See Jonathan Pratter’s excellent PowerPoint presentation for some good background information (and why “legislative history” is a misleading term to use here)

“Travaux préparatoires”/preparatory works have been published for some major treaties such as the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (check online catalogues)

http://www.law.utexas.edu/staff/presentations/

http://www.law.utexas.edu/staff/presentations/

Finding “Travaux Préparatoires” for Treaties

Question #9: Where can you Question #9: Where can you find an English translation of find an English translation of the French Vienot Report on the French Vienot Report on

Corporate Governance?Corporate Governance?

My current favorite Internet search engine, Google, is great for this type of question – a document with a popular name on a hot topic.

The European Corporate Governance Network has a link to Vienot I and Vienot II in English from the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF)

http://www.google.com/

http://www.ecgn.ulb.ac.be/ecgn/codes.htm

http://www.medef.fr/uk/html/reference_subjects.htm

Google Search Results for: “Vienot Report” English

Question #8: Where Can I Question #8: Where Can I Find “Control Council Law No. Find “Control Council Law No. 10” (Nuremberg War Crimes 10” (Nuremberg War Crimes

Trials)?Trials)?

Yale’s Avalon Project is a great resource for major, historic documents and it includes a collection of Nuremberg War Crimes Trials documents

Links to other sources of War Crimes documents are also available from other “Best of the Web” sites

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt10.htm

You know you’re ready to You know you’re ready to move up to the next level move up to the next level

when...when...

You take less time to find the right anwers Someone asks a question on a listserv and

you know you can answer that You no longer feel the burn…

We’re done!

See y’all on

the Net!