2. Finding (e-)stuff
Treaties
Case law
UN material
Customary law
Commentary
Encyclopaedia
E-books OSAIL
Finding journal articles
3. Multi-laterals: 1920s to date
LNTS
Coverage 1920-1946
UNTS
Coverage 1946 to date
Internat 10
HeinOnline – UN Law Collection
Freely available [pdfs] via
www.worldlii.org/int/other/treaties/LNTSer/
AVOID the UN’s own Treaty website for texts!!
4. Not in UNTS?
International Legal Materials
Complete Journal
LexisLibrary: 1962 onwards
Internat 300 I240
HeinOnline v.1(1962)-v.50(2011)
Just treaties from ILM
Westlaw Int: 1980 v.19 on
6. Free web for national tss
National Treaty series –e.g. UKTS via
UKTO (UK Treaties Online) = part of
FCO website (but with disclaimer)
Note HeinOnline’s Treaty &
Agreements Library … for U.S.A.
treaties, whether currently in-force,
expired, or not-yet officially
published.
9. Some Treaty Questions
Is the treaty in force? EIF
Which states have signed, ratified,
repudiated, or modified this treaty?
Have any states expressed
reservations to the treaty or made a
declaration of interpretation?
10. Treaty status: MTDSG
Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the
Secretary-General
Formerly printed as ST/LEG/SER/E/
Now On-line version is updated daily
20. International Law Reports
(ILR)
General collection
1919 –
Decisions of both international courts
& national tribunals applying PIL
All translated into English
Internat 100 I61
Online via Justis
22. Oxford Reports on International law
Modules
International Courts of General
Jurisdiction
International Criminal Law
International Human Rights Law
International Investment Claims
International Law in Domestic Courts
Via OxLIP+ type ORIL
30. ICJ (Lexis,Westlaw, Hein too!)
Free + In summary form 1946 to 1969, full-text from 1970
onwards.
ALSO gives you Permanent Court of Justice Archive 1922-46
33. Human Rights Cases
European Court HUDOC
African Court on Human & Peoples’
Rights www.african-court.org/en/
Inter-American Court of HR
www.corteidh.or.cr/
Interights (summaries)
42. Customary law/”law of nations”
“State practice”
Government (or ministry websites)
e.g. Digest of US Practice in Int.L
http://www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm
National year books (or yearbooks)
Not official but can help with citations
to/summaries of, reproductions of
official govt doxs as well as academic
analysis
43. Encyclopedia
New topic?
New concept?
New jargon?
Also
Bibliography
starter
Max Planck
Encyclopedia of
Public
International
Law (MPEPIL)
Via OxLIP+ = max
Sign In if off
campus/no vpn
with SSO
45. OR, NOT, ?, *,“[exact]”,w or w/out accents, Eng or US sp.
46.
47.
48. In print only
Encyclopedia of the United Nations
and international agreements
(3rd ed 2003) Internat 687 E56a3
Parry and Grant encyclopædic
dictionary of international law (3rd ed
2009) Internat 450 P264b3
Encyclopedia of human rights (2009)
Order from closed stacks
50. OSAIL
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on
Internat Law
“classic” works which happen to be
OUP
E.g. Oppenheim's International Law,
MCNAIR Treaties, CASSESE Rome
Statute of ICC etc etc
Not yet on SOLO – but linked from
MPEPIL & ORIL & see handout
51. Get to OSAIL from MPEPIL
OR ORIL or Oxford Citator
52.
53. Hague Academy Collected
Courses
In OxLIP+ type in Haye
Courses for pgs in public & private
int. law
leading academics & practitioners,
judges, diplomats
Eng OR Fre
Internat 300 A20.
54.
55. The great article hunt
Via OxLIP+
Index to Foreign Legal
Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals
try also SSCI (Social Science
Citation Index)
Try also PAIS International?
60. Copy & paste
journal title
into OU e-
journals or
SOLO or
LawBod Search
our tool
61. News
Court’s, Organization’s etc own
website
ASIL Insights
http://www.asil.org/insights
“provide brief, balanced accounts of
the international law issues raised by
newsworthy late-breaking events”
62. More help online
ASIL’s E-rg Electronic Research
Guide
ASIL’s EISIL Electronic Information
System for International Law