FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources

Abbreviations, Citation Guides, Directories

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Yearbooks

Research Guides & Bibliographies

Abbreviations

What is U.C.L.J.?

Bieber’s – legal abbreviations

In Ready Reference next to the Reference Desk

Does the Law Library provide access?

Check GAVEL!

Noble’s – law reporters abbreviations

“M.L.R.”

“BGBl”

World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations

• country-by-country• especially helpful if reading many materials from a particular jurisdiction• in Reference

bundesgesetzblatt

what we’ve received and bound

received but not yet bound

you need BGBl, Teil 1, 2009 no. 28:has the library received it?

http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/abbreviations for English language legal publications from the British Isles,

the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering

international and comparative law

Q.B.

In re Castioni, [1891] Q.B. 149

Directories

An article refers to an organization as “ICCTA” - what is it?

directory of 1000’s of international organizations

We don’t have current edition in Law Library but they do at the Main Library – in Reference

International Organizations and Related Informationhttp://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore

FREE!!

More Helpful Tools

Reynolds &

Floresforeign law

Commercial laws of the middle east

I’m looking for a casedecided by the JudicialCommittee of the Privy Council in New Zealand

Does the Law Libraryhave this set?

Check GAVEL!!

Where are their decisionsreported?

More helpful resources….

Restatement of the Law, 3rd on Foreign Relations

Hague Academy, Recueil des Cours or Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law

Location = Rusk Center Library in Rusk Hall

“The best-known names in international law have taught at the Hague Academy of International Law. The Academy courses are collected in a publication, the Collected Courses, which appears in five to seven volumes per year.”

Note: the courses are published in English and French

Note: includes index volumes; also indexed in IFLP.

Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Yearbooks of International Law

Yearbook and international law

International Legal Materials(I.L.M.)

                                                                          

Excellent resource for timely access to full text of international agreements, domestic legislation, court decisions

• very selective• often translated• often w/ commentary

The Bluebook likes I.L.M. as an unofficial source

ILM is in Lexis & Westlaw

• ASILEX indexes ILM from 1990 - .

• Also indexes several other ASIL publications, webinars, etc.

human trafficking

Research Guides

• check Gavel• Web• law reviews• library literature

Research guides: Check GAVEL

human rights research

Research guides: on the Web (e.g., www.llrx.com)

GlobaLex - at NYU's Global Law School Program

Sample from GlobaLex guide to researching Dutch Law

Research Guides:in law reviews

Research guides: in library literature

available in Hein Online and Lexis