Bodleian Law Library

Key stuff & tools to find more!Michaelmas 2013

Public International Law

Finding (e-)stuff Treaties Case law UN material Customary lawCommentary Encyclopaedia E-books OSAIL Finding journal articles

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!!

Not in UNTS? International Legal MaterialsComplete JournalLexisLibrary: 1962 onwards Internat 300 I240

HeinOnline v.1(1962)-v.50(2011)

Just treaties from ILMWestlaw Int: 1980 v.19 on

Incidentally Westlaw Int– useful for international commercial arbitration!

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.

Secretariats: added value!

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?

Treaty status: MTDSG

Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General

Formerly printed as ST/LEG/SER/E/

Now On-line version is updated daily

http://treaties.un.org

“Quirky” so drill down

TREATIES: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Also on UN’s Treaty website

Hover mouse over link to see treaty name

Depositary Notifications

Int. Convention for Suppression of Financing of Terrorism

BITS: bilateral investment

Subscription Databases: Investment Claims (over 1000 BITS) Kluwer Arbitration IA Reporter – news & analysis on

treaty negotiations Investor State Law TDM Transnational Dispute

Management

BITS: free web for texts

Tax treaties - LexisLibrary

Law Reports & Cases

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

ILR in JUSTIS

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 CourtsVia OxLIP+ type ORIL

ORIL: added to “daily”

Default – searches all unless you limit/refine

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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

Don’t let gray put you off!

Human Rights Reports

BHRC in Lexis EHRR in Westlaw UK

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)

Google HUDOC

38 individual databases

WorldLII – databases & portal

http://www.ecolex.org/start.php

Asser Institute EEL case law

UNITED NATIONS

Publications? If a major series, try HeinOnline first

Documents? official.papers@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

//libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/un

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

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

QuickSearch:TRIPS

TRIPS

OR, NOT, ?, *,“[exact]”,w or w/out accents, Eng or US sp.

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

MAJOR ONLINE WORKS

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 etcNot yet on SOLO – but linked from

MPEPIL & ORIL & see handout

Get to OSAIL from MPEPIL OR ORIL or Oxford Citator

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.

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?

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

Social Science Citation Index

Max Planck Institute documentation of articles

Copy & paste journal title into OU e-journals or

SOLO or LawBod Search

our tool

News Court’s, Organization’s etc own

website

ASIL Insightshttp://www.asil.org/insights

“provide brief, balanced accounts of the international law issues raised by newsworthy late-breaking events”

More help online ASIL’s E-rg Electronic Research Guide ASIL’s EISIL Electronic Information

System for International Law