Making the

Connection… to

the Rest of the

World

Making the Connection…to Making the Connection…to the Rest of the Worldthe Rest of the World

Lyonette Louis-JacquesUniversity of Chicago Law Library

llou@midway.uchicago.eduMAALL/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

Lyo’s Personal Page for International Legal Research

Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global

Bill Schwesig’s D’Angelo Law Library International Page

Connect to the Best Information: Connect to the Best Information: Go Straight to the Source Go Straight to the Source

Law and Trade in the 21st Century

Vienot Report (on Corporate Governance)

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)

Department of State: Country Reports, Trade, Commerce, and International Law

United States Trade Representative: Dispute Settlement

And Don’t Forget Your And Don’t Forget Your Foreign Team!Foreign Team!

Canada: Trade Negotiations and Agreements

Canada: Dispute Settlement (WTO, NAFTA, EU)

Israel: Important Cases and Legislation in English

Connect to IGO Websites: Connect to IGO Websites: They’ve Got Everything; They’ve Got Everything;

They’re the Best!They’re the Best!

United Nations Treaty Collection

Really Current Status of Multilateral Treaties!

United Nations Documentation Centre

EUR-Lex: European Union Law Webpage

OAS’ Foreign Trade Information System (SICE)

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

Presenting…Presenting…

Major Websites for Foreign and

International Legal Research

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!

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII)

LLRX.com

TreatiesTreaties

U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guid

e

Other Stefanie Weigman’s

Guide

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!

ASIL’ Guide to IL Research on the Net

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

New York University’s FCIL Research Page

Harvard’s Research Guides

National Laws By Subject (Harvard)

Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

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)

Reynolds & Flores

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

AALL’s FCIL SIS Expert Help Project

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

The Archives of the INT-LAW E-Mail List

How to Subscribe to INT-LAWHow to Subscribe to INT-LAW

Send an e-mail message to:

majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org

With only the following text in the body:

subscribe int-law

Archives of the EURO-LEX E-mail List

Subscribing to EURO-LEXSubscribing to EURO-LEX

To subscribe to the EURO-LEX list,send an e-mail message to:

listserv@listserv.gmd.de

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!

International Calendar for Legal Information Events

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.

English Summary of Case, with Link to Translated 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)

Finding “Travaux Préparatoires” for Treaties

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)

Google Search Results for: “Vienot Report” English

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…

Touchdown! You’re Connected to the World!

FIN

We’re done!

See y’all on

the Net!