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International Law Research. Pratt-SLIS Spring 2010. What Will You Learn Today?. Public International Law 1. What it is 2. How you can find it. Sources of International Law. International conventions (treaties) Customary law General principles of law Jurisprudence - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
International Law Research
Pratt-SLISSpring 2010
What Will You Learn Today?
• Public International Law1. What it is2. How you can find it
Sources of International Law
• International conventions (treaties)
• Customary law• General principles of law • Jurisprudence• International law scholars’ writings
• La Doctrine
Researching International LawSecondary Sources
• Journal Articles• Treatises• Directories• Research Guides• Dictionaries• Encyclopedias
Secondary Sources Provide…
• Background information• Citations to primary documents• Information about international
organizations• Analysis and commentary • Chronology of events• Definitions and explanations of
legal concepts • La Doctrine
Legal Journal Indexes
• Index to Legal Periodicals• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals• Law-related Indexes
• Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)• International Political Science Abstracts
• Public International Law: A Current Bibliography of Books and Articles
Definitions, Abbreviations & Acronyms
• Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations • Guide to Foreign and International Legal
Citations• World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations• International Legal Citation Manual• Encyclopedia of Public International Law• Dictionary of International and
Comparative Law• International Law: A Dictionary
International Organizations
Fact books, directories, and statistical compilation:
• United Nations YearBook• (other guides:
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resource/internat/unguide.html
• International Organizations and Related Information(http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html)
• IGO and NGO websites
Primary Sources
• Treaties/International Agreements• Declarations, Organizational Statements, Reports• Resolutions
• Judicial decisions/Case Law• Interpretations of international tribunals
• Customary International Law• National Legislation• Regulations• Government/Policy Statements • Restatements of the law
• La Doctrine
Primary Sources: Treaties & Agreements
Treaty = an international agreement concluded between States in written form and governed by international law, whether embodied in a single instrument or in two or more related instruments and whatever its particular designation
- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/1_1_1969.pdf
Primary Sources: U.S. Treaties & Agreements (I)
• Treaty Indexes• Treaties in Force (TIF)
(http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/treaties/)• Treaty Actions
(http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/c3428.htm)• United States Treaty Index (HeinOnline –
subscription based)
Primary Sources: U.S. Treaties & Agreements (II)
Official Full-Text Sources• United States Treaties and Other International
Agreements (cited to as U.S.T.) (1950-date) • Treaties and Other International Acts Series (cited to
as T.I.A.S.) (1946-date) • Statutes at Large (cited to as Stat.) (1776-1950)• Treaties and Other International Agreements of the
United States, 1776-1949 (Bevans) available on Hein• Thomas Treaties
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/treaties/treaties.htm
Primary Sources: U.S. Treaties & Agreements (III)
• Unofficial Sources• Hein's United States Treaties and Other International
Agreements Current Service (1990) • Consolidated Treaties and International Agreements
(often cited to as CTIA) (1990-) • Lexis (INTLAW; USTRTY) • Westlaw (USTREATIES)
Primary Sources: Multilateral Treaties & Agreements (I)
• Treaty Indexes• Multilateral Treaty Calendar• Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary
General (http://untreaty.un.org/ENGLISH/bible/englishinternetbible/bible.asp)
• World Treaty Index • Index to Multilateral Treaties: A Chronological List of
Multi-Party International Agreements from the Sixteenth Century through 1963, with citations to their text
Primary Sources: Multilateral Treaties & Agreements (II)
• Full-text SourcesCURRENT• United Nations Treaty Series (cited to as U.N.T.S.)
United Nations Treaty Collection (http://untreaty.un.org/ENGLISH/access.asp)
• International Legal Materials (cited to as I.L.M.) (Westlaw & Lexis)
Primary Sources: Multilateral Treaties & Agreements (III)
HISTORICAL• Consolidated Treaty Series (often cited to as C.T.S. or
Consol. T.S.) • The League of Nations Treaty Series (cited to as
L.N.T.S.)
• Avalon Project (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm)
• Multilaterals Project (http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html)
• U.N. Office of Legal Affairs Treaty Section (212) 963-2523
Primary Sources: Customary International Law
• State papers• Diplomatic correspondence• Executive decisions• Judicial decisions
• National courts• International tribunals
• National Legislation• Teachings of international law scholars• Practice of international organizations
Primary Sources: Case law (I)
• UN’s International Court of Justice (http://www.icj-cij.org/)
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights, IACHR (http://www.corteidh.or.cr/)
Primary Sources: Case law (II)• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, ITLOS,
(http://www.itlos.org/)
• International Criminal Court, ICC (http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, ICTR (http://www.ictr.org)
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ICTY (http://www.un.org/icty/index.html)
• Permanent Court of Arbitration, PCA (http://www.pca-cpa.org/)
• Special Court for Sierra Leone, SC-SL (http://www.sc-sl.org/)
International Organizations
• Two types of international organizations• Governmental (IGO)
• UN (www.un.org) or Organization of American States
• Non-governmental (NGO)• World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace and Amnesty
International
• Research guides • ASIL Guide to International Organizations
(http://www.asil.org/resource/intorg1.htm)• Non-governmental Organizations Research Guide
(http://docs.lib.duke.edu/igo/guides/ngo/index.htm)
UN Legal Research
1. United Nations Documentation Centerhttp://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/2. UNbisnethttp://unbisnet.un.org/
3. ODS (Official Documents of the United Nations)
http://ods.un.org/