Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law
University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library
llou@midway.uchicago.edu
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/maall-call.html (links page)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/making2.ppt
(PowerPoint Presentation)
1. Google (or other favorite Internet search engine):
United Nations Treaty Collection.
Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General (updated daily).
United Nations Documentation Research Guide: International Law.
United Nations Documentation Centre (General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council resolutions).
International Court of Justice (ICJ).
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR).
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
World Trade Organization (WTO).
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
EUR-Lex (EU regulations, directives, cases).
CELEX (EU law database).
European Commission: Competition (antitrust and merger decisions)
Council of Europe (CoE).
Organization of American States (OAS).
SICE: Foreign Trade Information System.
Amnesty International (AI).
Human Rights Watch (HRW).
Canada. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT).
Israel. Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1. Legal Information Institute (Cornell's
LII; look under "Law about..." and "Law by source or jurisdiction").
2. LLRX.com.
Comparative/Foreign Law Resource Center
International Law Resource Center
Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements.
Researching Non-U.S. Treaties and Agreements.
3. Guide to Electronic Resources
for International Law (ASIL)
Researching International Law on the Internet.
9 other chapters: Human Rights; International Commercial Arbitration; International Criminal Law; International Economic Law; International Environmental Law; Lists, Newsgroups, and Networks; Private International Law; Treaties; United Nations.
4. Guide to Foreign
and International Legal Databases (NYU).
5. Harvard
Foreign and International Law Resources: An Annotated Guide to Web Sites Around the World
6. Australasian Legal Information Institute
(AustLII)(includes links to the World Law Index/Project DIAL and WorldLII's "Legislation" links).
8. LAWLINKS: Legal Information
on the Internet.
9. Avalon Project: Documents
on Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale Law School; pre-18th Century to 20th
Century).
International Law: U.S. treaties; tax treaties; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) panel decisions; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization (GATT/WTO) panel reports; GATT Basic Instruments and Selected Documents (BISD); International Legal Materials (ILM); Basic Documents of International Economic Law (BDIEL); European Court of Human Rights decisions (Council of Europe); European Union regulations, directives, decisions, cases (CELEX database) and treatises; international law journals.
Foreign Law: full texts of statutes for Argentina, Australia, Canada, Central & Eastern Europe Legal Texts, China (PRC), France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Mexico, Russia, UK (England & Wales); full texts of cases for Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, (England & Wales), Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa Constitutional Law Reports, Scotland, Singapore, Brunei; Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest and International Law Directory; Matthew Bender treatises (Doing Business in..., intellectual property, etc.); BBC news.
Journal Databases & Indexes: LAWREV library, LGLIND file (Legal Resource Index); LAWREV library, ALLREV file (full texts of law journals).
Foreign Law: United Kingdom legal materials - cases, statutes, journals (Great Britain and Northern Ireland); primary law for Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Mexico, Russia; Sweet & Maxwell publications (case reports, journals, document compilations).
Journal Databases & Indexes: JLR (full texts of journals and law reviews) or TP-ALL database (full texts of law journal articles and books (Practising Law Institute, American Law Institute-American Bar Association, etc.)); LRI (Legal Resource Index); LJI (Legal Journals Index).
Subject (for books containing legislation, use Law and legislation subdivision; for books on constitutional law of a particular country, use [country name] -- Constitutional law or Constitutional law -- [Country name]; for comparative law on a particular subject, use the subject without subdivisions).
Author/Uniform title (for texts in original languages or English translations of foreign constitutions and legislation, use the format: Author search: [country name]. Title search: Title of primary law in the vernacular. Date. or Author: [country name]. Title: Vernacular title. English). Examples: Germany. Grundgesetz. English; France. Code pénal. English.
Civil codes (usually include laws on contracts, marriage and family law, inheritance and wills, property, and torts).
Private international law = conflicts of law = choice of law = applicable law: trade and commerce, finance and banking, trusts and estates, family and children matters, and international judicial assistance, Hague Conventions, etc.
See "Country Specialties & International Law" section of the Chicago Association of Law Libraries (CALL) Membership Directory and the Directory of Foreign Law Collections in Selected Law Libraries (1991).
University of Chicago. D'Angelo Law Library, Regenstein Library (IGO documents), East Asian Library and other area studies collections; major common law and civil law jurisdictions (Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, France, Italy (strong for Western Europe generally), Israel, Japan; UN law collection; EU; GATT/WTO; Council of Europe; international law, international relations, human rights, war crimes, international criminal law, comparative criminal law, comparative constitutional law, international commercial arbitration, international economic law/trade law, European legal history, etc.; doesn't own many materials on Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East published since the mid-1960s).
Northwestern University (since the mid-1980s, NwULL been buying more
vernacular materials from France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal; NwULL does not
collect materials from Latin America in vernacular languages or own them; collects
in French for Belgium and Switzerland; has collections of ancient law, Roman
law, Jewish law, Islamic law, "ecclesiastical" law (mostly Canon law);
international law topics; Readex UN Law Library collection on microfiche).
Chicago-Kent (UN and EU documents depository; strong in international
trade; annual reports etc. of the national banks -- along with the International
Monetary Fund (IMF), International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/World
Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO) materials etc.; includes Library of International
Relations (LIR)).
DePaul (international human rights, international criminal law, war crimes, some Latin American human rights materials in Spanish, including Mexican Human Rights Commission reports).
John Marshall (has a good core collection of Chinese legal materials,
that includes the nine volume loose-leaf set China Laws for Foreign Business
published by CCH,; also
developing collections on Intellectual Property Law, Information Technology
and Privacy Law, and International Business and Trade Law).
Center for Research Libraries (foreign official gazettes, war crimes trials documents, German dissertations).
Cook County Law Library (Latin American law?).
Newberry Library (European legal history, canon law, etc.).
EURO-LEX (All EUROpean Legal Information EXchange list).
To subscribe, send to listserv@listserv.dfn.de the message:
subscribe euro-lex Your Name
INT-LAW (Foreign & International Law Librarians/Research list).
To subscribe, send to majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org the message:
subscribe int-law
Other listservs, law and library associations worldwide.
READ, READ, READ research guides and substantive international law articles.
Read international news sources.
Monitor listservs such as INT-LAW and EURO-LEX.
Attend conferences (see the International Journal of Legal Information
International Calendar for dates)
and get to know the foreign and international law specialists (IGO librarians,
documentalists, law librarians, professors, lawyers, government offiicals, publishers,
students). Network!
Bookmark and try new links right away!
Attend workshops, seminars, and training courses (both substantive and bibliographic).
Attend specialized database sessions.
Create and maintain a personal or institutional web page.