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Pumping Iron 3: The Pumping Iron 3: The LibrariansLibrarians
Presentation byLyonette Louis-Jacques
University of Chicago Law [email protected]
CALL, May 28, 2001
A behind-the-scenes look at…A behind-the-scenes look at…
How a foreign and international law librarian goes about providing top-notch, efficient, and effective service, or
How to avoid walking up stairs, lifting heavy books, roaming around library stacks, etc., looking for the right resource, and
Have happy customers!
Best of the Web, Part I: Best of the Web, Part I: General F/IL PagesGeneral F/IL Pages
Your Foreign and International Law Pages U Toronto, U Laval ASIL’s ERG Harvard, NYU LLRX.com LAWLINKS LII, AustLII
Best of the Web, Part II: Best of the Web, Part II: Specialized ResourcesSpecialized Resources
World Bank Law Library Yale’s Avalon Project Lex Mercatoria IGO websites (UN, etc.) NGOs/Assocs. Gov’t Agencies Research Centers/Think Tanks
TreatiesTreaties
LexUM/DFAIT’s Canado-American Treaties
AustLII/DFAT’s Treaties Library
United Nations’ Treaty Collection
Yale’s Avalon Project Fletcher’s
Multilaterals Project Gov’t Agencies, IGOs,
NGOs, etc.
Treaties (Cont’d)Treaties (Cont’d)
U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guide
Other Stefanie Weigman’s
Guide
Finding Foreign Law Online Finding Foreign Law Online Generally, and in TranslationGenerally, and in Translation
NYU Foreign Primary Law on the Web GLIN Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global Harvard
Finding Foreign Law/in Finding Foreign Law/in Translation (Cont’d)Translation (Cont’d)
Check research guides Check OPACs Check indexes Contact embassies Use listservs *Reynolds & Flores
Getting Ready for the Getting Ready for the Lightweight Questions Lightweight Questions
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!
How to Subscribe to INT-LAWHow to Subscribe to INT-LAW
Send an e-mail message to:
With only the following text in the body:
subscribe int-law
Subscribing to EURO-LEXSubscribing to EURO-LEX
To subscribe to the EURO-LEX list,send an e-mail message to:
With only the following text in the body:
subscribe euro-lex Your Name
Personal Trainers (Specialists Personal Trainers (Specialists in FCIL Research)in FCIL Research)
Foreign Law Librarians
ProfessorsDocumentalists/IGO Librarians
Lawyers
Standard Weights (Books)Standard Weights (Books)
Reynolds & Flores World Almanac CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s
Law Digest
World Treaty Index Encyclopedia of
Public International Law
International Legal Materials (ILM)
Standard Weights (Cont’d)Standard Weights (Cont’d)
Internet search engines (such as Google) Online catalogues (union catalogues are great!) Journal article databases and indexes (UnCover,
RAVE, ASIL, Geneva’s WebVoyager, etc.) Gateways/Portals/Meta-Pages (SOSIG, BUBL,
Yahoo!, Hieros Gamos, JURIST) Directories, listservs, & other “people” sources
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.
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)
Getting Ready for Heavier Getting Ready for Heavier Weights/Tougher QuestionsWeights/Tougher Questions
Attend workshops, seminars, and training courses (both substantive and bibliographic)
Attend specialized database sessions Maintain a personal or institutional web
page READ, READ, READ research guides and
substantive international law articles Do 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)
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)
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 anwers Someone asks a question on a listserv and
you know you can answer that You no longer feel the burn…