Public International Law

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Public International Law

• historicallylaw between nation-states
• modern includes intl orgs and persons

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Sources of Public Intl Law

• Treaties and other international agreements
• Custom
• General principles of law
• Judicial decisions and teachings of qualified
  publicists

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Resources for Locating Sources of PIL
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Source Treaties

• Resources
• Bluebook lists official and unofficial cites
• depends on whether U.S. is a party and whether
  multilateral or bilateral
• use indexes to get citation
• databases TIARA, UN Treaties, Westlaw Lexis
• Web resources Tufts, ENTRI, etc.

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Treaties in Force on Reserve or online at
http//www.state.gov/s/l/c8455.htm
name
date
citations
Check Bluebook for Rules re each element
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TIARA
Convention on wetlands
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TIARA
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http//www.law.uga.edu/library/pathfind/treaties.h
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Source Custom

• Resources your objective is to find evidence of
  state practice
• opinio juris
• records of states foreign relations
• domestic court decisions
• domestic legislation
• resolutions, declarations of int orgs

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Where do I find these types of evidence?

• documents on foreign or intl relations
• digests
• repertories
• yearbooks
• International Legal Materials
• Web

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(foreign and documents) and (relations or
archives or diplomatic) and australia
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Sources of State Practice in Intl Law KZ64 .S67
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Digests of Intl Law
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Source General Principles of International Law
Recognized by Civilized Nations

• Resources
• the decisions of international tribunals may
  include determination

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Secondary Sources

• judicial decisions
• teachings of publicists

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GAVEL subject search
international law cases
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Teachings of Publicists

• search for treatises (not treaties)
• search for articles
• search for entries in encyclopedias

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