Flexing Your

International

Legal Research

Muscle!

Flexing Your International Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle!Legal Research Muscle!

By Lyonette “Lyo” Louis-JacquesUniversity of Chicago Law Library

llou@midway.uchicago.edu(for the Chicago Journal of

International Law, Sept. 4, 2001)

Presenting…Presenting…

The Best of the Web for Foreign

and International

Legal Research

Best of the Web, Part I: Best of the Web, Part I: General F/IL PagesGeneral F/IL Pages

Our U of C Law Library web pageASIL’s ERGHarvard, NYULLRX.comCornell’s LII

Best of the Web, Part II: Best of the Web, Part II: Specialized ResourcesSpecialized Resources

Yale’s Avalon ProjectIGO websites (UN, etc.)NGOs/Assocs.Gov’t AgenciesResearch Centers/Think Tanks

The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

United Nations Documentation Centre

AccessUN

EUR-Lex: European Union Law

EU Cases via WESTLAW (see also EHHR)

EU Legislation: Directives, Regulations, Decisions, Treaties

Standard Weights (E-Tools)Standard Weights (E-Tools) Internet search engines (such as Google) Online catalogues (WorldCat is great!) Full-text journal article databases and indexes

(WESTLAW’s TP-ALL, LEXIS, JSTOR, ProQuest; LegalTrac, IFLP, PAIS, PSA, etc.)

News sources (LEXIS, WESTLAW, etc.) Gateways/Portals/Meta-Pages (FindLaw, SOSIG,

BUBL, Yahoo!, Hieros Gamos, JURIST) Directories, listservs, & other “people” sources

Congressional Masterfile (via Congressional Universe)

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)

CSA’s Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

TreatiesTreaties

United Nations’ Treaty Collection

AustLII/DFAT’s Treaties Library

U.S. Treaties via LX/WL

Yale’s Avalon Project Fletcher’s

Multilaterals Project Gov’t Agencies, IGOs,

NGOs, etc.

United Nations Treaty Collection(has weekly treaty status updates via Multilateral Treaties Deposited)

Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

LexisNexis

International Legal Materials (I.L.M.) via LexisNexis

Finding the Citation to the “New York Convention” via TP-ALL

Treaties (Cont’d)Treaties (Cont’d)

U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guid

e

Other Stefanie Weigman’s

Guide

Finding Foreign Law Online Finding Foreign Law Online Generally, and in TranslationGenerally, and in Translation

NYUForeign Primary Law on the WebGLINFinding Foreign Law Online When Going

GlobalHarvard

Finding Foreign Law/in Finding Foreign Law/in Translation (Cont’d)Translation (Cont’d)

Check research guidesCheck OPACsCheck indexesContact embassiesUse listservs*Reynolds & Flores

Personal Trainers (“People” Personal Trainers (“People” Contacts for Research Help)Contacts for Research Help)

Gov’t agencies,Organizations, etc.

ProfessorsYour FriendlyU of C Librarians!

Lawyers

But sometimes you have to But sometimes you have to sweat it out with hardcopy…sweat it out with hardcopy…

Check for call numbers in the online catalog

Walk to the Reserve Reading Room, the Reference Area, and most of the time, the 6th Floor

Pull out the books and check them out for answers

And you’ll become very familiar with…

Standard Weights (Books)Standard Weights (Books)

Reynolds & Flores World Almanac CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s

Int’l Law Digest

World Treaty Index Encyclopedia of

Public International Law

International Legal Materials (ILM)

U.S. Treaties in Force (as of January 1, 2000)

International Legal Materials (I.L.M.)

FIN

We’re done! See y’all at the Ref desk!