International

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International Foreign Law Source Collecting

• Berkeley Journal of International Law
• Marci Hoffman
• mhoffman_at_law.berkeley.edu

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Overview

• Some General Sources
• Step 1 Review Sources
• Step 2 Abbreviations
• Step 3 International Legal Sources
• Step 4 Foreign Legal Sources
• Step 5 Books and Journal Articles
• Step 6 Electronic Sources
• Step 7 Newspaper Articles
• Step 8 Copying

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General Sources

• Librarys website, see Student Resources
• International Foreign Law Source Collecting
• LawCat
• Melvyl (UC system-wide, no law records since July
  2007)
• OskiCat (UCB only, no law)
• WorldCat
• Research Guides
• Databases
• Access to subscription databases
• off-campus

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Step 1 Review Sources

• Primary Sources
• Treaties and international agreements
• Foreign law
• International case law
• Documents from IGOs
• Secondary Sources
• Books
• Articles
• Reports
• Newspaper articles
• Other sources

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Step 2 Abbreviations

• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
• Biebers Dictionary
• The Bluebook
• Nobles International Guide to Law Reports
• World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations
• International Citation Manual

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Step 3 International Sources

• Treaties International Agreements
• EISIL
• Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International
  Instruments
• UN Treaties on HeinOnline
• Note treaty, agreement, protocol, MOU,
  convention, accord, covenant ? treaties
• See Table 4 of The Bluebook.

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Example

• Convention on Torture, art. 14(1), ratified by
  the U.S. Oct. 21, 1994, 1465 U.N.T.S. 85
• HeinOnline
• 1465 is the volume
• 85 is the page
• Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International
  Instruments

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Step 3 International Sources

• United Nations Documents (U.N. Doc.)
• Official Document Service (ODS)
• UNBISnet
• UN Documentation Centre
• See rule 21.7 and Table 3 of The Bluebook for
  help deciphering UN abbreviations.

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Example

• G.A. Res. 44/25 U.N. DOC. A/RES/44/25 (Dec. 12,
  1989).
• UN Documentation Centre
• UNBISnet
• ODS
• International Law page on UN website
• Note this treaty does have a UNTS citation, see
  1577 U.N.T.S. 3

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Step 3 International Law

• European Union Materials
• Eur-Lex European Court of Justice
• LexisNexis
• Westlaw
• See rule 21.8.2 and Table 3 of The Bluebook for
  help deciphering EU material.

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Example

• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
  Union O.J. (C 364) 1 (Dec. 7, 2000) art. 22.
• Eur-Lex
• C is the OJ series
• 364 is the OJ number
• Case C-274/96, Criminal Proceedings Against
  Bickel and Franz, 1998 E.C.R. I-7637 ECJ.
• European Court of Justice
• LawCat
• LexisNexis
• Westlaw

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Step 3 International Law

• International Case Law
• Sources vary, but start w/ court or tribunals
  website
• PCIJ, ICJ, ITLOS, ECJ, ICSID
• International Law Reports
• Oxford Reports on International Law
• International Courts Tribunals Library
• Many reporters available in print

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Example

• Tokios Tokelés v. Ukraine, ICSID Case No.
  ARB/02/18, Decision on Jurisdiction, 29 April
  2004.  
• ICSID website
• Investment Claims  
• ICSID Review (search LawCat)

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Step 4 Foreign Law Sources

• Foreign Law Guide
• A Selective List of Guides to Foreign Legal
  Research
• Other databases
• Websites
• WorldLII
• CANLII
• AUSTLII

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Example

• Article 5, Chinese Company Law (1994)
• Foreign Law Guide
• Information on sources for laws by topic
• Sources may be print or electronic (free
  fee-based)
• See Table 2 of The Bluebook for help with
  citations from foreign jurisdictions.

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Example

• Sauvé v. Canada (Chief Electoral Officer), 2002
  3 S.C.R. 519
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
• The Bluebook
• CANLII
• LexisNexis
• Westlaw

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Step 5 Books Articles

• Books
• LawCat
• Melvyl
• OskiCat
• Book Chapter
• Signal that its a chapter in
• Floris Van Laanen, The Frisian Language in the
  Netherlands, in MINORITY RIGHTS IN EUROPE 72 (ed.
  Snezana Trifunovska 2001).
• Search LawCat for the title Minority Rights in
  Europe

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Example

• OECD, Corporate Governance of State-Owned
  Enterprises, (Paris, OECD Publishing 2005), p 33
• LawCat
• Melvyl
• OskiCat
• SourceOECD

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Step 5 Articles

• Law Journal Databases
• LegalTrac
• Index to Legal Periodicals
• HeinOnline
• LexisNexis
• Westlaw
• E-Journal Titles A-Z

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Example

• T. Treves, Fragmentation of  International Law
  the Judicial Perspective, 23 Comunicazioni e
  Studi , 821-875 (2007)
• LawCat -- title search Comunicazioni e studi
• Jean L. Cohen, Changing Paradigms of Citizenship
  and the Exclusiveness of the Demos (1999) 14
  International Sociology 245
• E-Journal Titles A-Z

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Other steps

• Step 6 Electronic sources
• Consider the source -- use best electronic source
  available
• Step 7 Newspaper articles
• LexisNexis
• Westlaw
• Other databases
• Web
• Step 6 Copying
• Title pages
• Page numbers

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Other Tips

• Many sources are not
• available in English
• available electronically
• Use The Bluebook as a guide
• Google is just one tool not the only tool
• Ask librarians for help!