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Making the Connection…to Making the Connection…to the Rest of the Worldthe Rest of the World
Lyonette Louis-JacquesUniversity of Chicago Law Library
[email protected]/CALL Joint Meeting,
November 7, 2002
How to Make the ConnectionHow to Make the Connection
WebsitesDatabasesStandard reference toolsPeople sources
Criteria for Deciding What to Criteria for Deciding What to Connect to (or Whom!)Connect to (or Whom!)
Trustworthy? Well-organized? Useful content? Has or
knows stuff you need? Convenient? Known/familiar? Update regularly? Annotated? Evaluated? Aesthetically pleasing?
Websites: Start with Your Websites: Start with Your Own or Make Your OwnOwn or Make Your Own
You know where things are in it
You know what’s in it (who’s on your team)
You know what its strengths are or what the game plan is
You can trust it
Connect to the Best Information: Connect to the Best Information: Go Straight to the Source Go Straight to the Source
Remember that Agencies Are on Your Team Remember that Agencies Are on Your Team (Domestic, Foreign, and International)(Domestic, Foreign, and International)
United States United Nations Other Inter-Governmental
Organizations (IGOs) Regional Organizations Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) Foreign Governments
Connect to Your Local Team Connect to Your Local Team (U.S.Government Agencies)(U.S.Government Agencies)
Connect to IGO Websites: Connect to IGO Websites: They’ve Got Everything; They’ve Got Everything;
They’re the Best!They’re the Best!
If You’re Not Sure Where to If You’re Not Sure Where to Begin…Begin…
Check to see what’s in your own library first
Think globally, act locally…first
Cornell’s Legal Information Cornell’s Legal Information Institute: International Law in a Institute: International Law in a
NutshellNutshell Law about…
Foreign Relations Law of the U.S.International LawInternational TradeLaw by source or jurisdictionRecommended readings!
ERG: By Librarians, For ERG: By Librarians, For Librarians (and Others)Librarians (and Others)
Direct links to treaty texts
Human Rights International
Economic Law Treaties International
Commercial Arbitration, and more!
NYU: Focus on Foreign Law NYU: Focus on Foreign Law Databases, and More!Databases, and More!
Annotated links to databases of primary law
Evaluated, selected by Foreign Law Librarian
Updated frequently On target contents Codes, legislation,
treaties, constitutions
Online DatabasesOnline Databases
LexisNexis Especially for Martindale-Hubbell International Law
Digest, Matthew-Bender treatises, foreign law
WESTLAW Especially for
international tribunal decisions, UK law journals, Sweet & Maxwell publications, & int’l law journals
Online Public Access Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs)Catalogs (OPACs)
Union catalogsFind foreign lawFind treatiesVerify informationTables of contentsBrowse call #s
Standard Tools (Books)Standard Tools (Books)
Reynolds & Flores PIL Nutshell CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s
Law Digest
The Bluebook Encyclopedia of
Public International Law
International Legal Materials (ILM)
Standard Tools (Cont’d)Standard Tools (Cont’d)
Restatement of the Law, The Foreign Relations of the United States
Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law
International Law: Selected Documents Yearbook of the United Nations Matthew-Bender and Sweet & Maxwell Berring’s research guides
People Sources (Specialists in People Sources (Specialists in FCIL Research)FCIL Research)
Foreign Law Librarians
ProfessorsDocumentalists/IGO Librarians
Lawyers
Libraries with Strong FCIL Libraries with Strong FCIL Collections in Chicago and BeyondCollections in Chicago and Beyond
University of Chicago (D’Angelo Law Library, Regenstein Library, East Asian and other area studies collections
Northwestern University Law LibraryCenter for Research LibrariesLatin American LawOther libraries
How to Subscribe to INT-LAWHow to Subscribe to INT-LAW
Send an e-mail message to:
With only the following text in the body:
subscribe int-law
Subscribing to EURO-LEXSubscribing to EURO-LEX
To subscribe to the EURO-LEX list,send an e-mail message to:
With only the following text in the body:
subscribe euro-lex Your Name
How to Stay Connected How to Stay Connected
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!
Checklist of Connections to MakeChecklist of Connections to Make
Check websites… Check databases… Check standard tools.. Research guides OPACs Indexes Check people sources… IGOs, NGOs, embassies Listservs
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
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
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
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.
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.
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)
How to Stay Connected…How to Stay Connected…ContinuedContinued
Attend workshops, seminars, and training courses (both substantive and bibliographic)
Attend specialized database sessionsMaintain a personal or institutional web
pageREAD, READ, READ research guides and
substantive international law articlesDo 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)
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)
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
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 anwersSomeone asks a question on a listserv and
you know you can answer thatYou no longer feel the burn…