Treaties & IHR studies

Elizabeth WellsBodleian Law LibraryJuly 2010

Pact Charter Final Act Convention

Constitution(of IO) Agreement

Protocol Covenant Accord Exchange of Notes

Treaty

This session: Mainly Texts

Are some better than others?

How to do you find the “best”? Library Holdings Major online sources

Reliable alternatives

Treaty TextsSources of the first rank (OSCOLA)

League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS) United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) Official treaty series of a State party eg UKTS

For post-1960 treaties not yet in one of above International legal materials (ILM)

LNTS

League of Nations Treaty Series

Bilateral & Multilateral Coverage 1920-1946 In Gallery at Internat 10 LN

French & English (also in Index Volumes)

LNTS online

HeinOnline – UN Law Collection (if you are off campus sign into OXLIP+ with your OSS first)

Free via UN website but the site is “quirky” & cannot be recommended for finding text August 2010

HeinOnlineHeinOnline

Ignore Treaties and Ignore Treaties and Agreements Library Agreements Library (USA)(USA)

For LNTS For LNTS (& UNTS)(& UNTS) clickclick

United Nations Law United Nations Law CollectionCollection

HeinOnline’s UN Law Collection

Click on any Click on any of these and of these and search box search box

opensopens

Most academic footnotes will have LNTS citation

A click on this A click on this link produces link produces very intuitive very intuitive

boxes to fill inboxes to fill in

No citation? No citation?

Searching for inter world Searching for inter world war treaty remember to war treaty remember to uncheck the UNTS boxuncheck the UNTS box

Click Click Print/DownloadPrint/Download

To see textTo see text

Other results – Other results – details of details of Ratifications, Ratifications, Accessions of Accessions of StatesStates

Scholar Check Scholar Check to journal to journal

articles on the articles on the topictopic

UNTS

United Nations Treaty Series Art 102 UN Charter “Every treaty &

international agreement entered into by any Member … shall a.s.a.p be registered with the Secretariat & published by it.”

Shelved at Internat 10 UN

UNTS > 2,000 vv & growing

Hein post 1945 Treaty search

Remember to have only

UNTS checked

Very recent? Try ILM

International Legal Materials Internat 300 I240 in print &Online viaLexis (via Sources)Westlaw Int – selected 1980 v.19 onHeinOnline in Law JJ Library &

Treaties & Agreements Library but only 1962-2008

Lexis Library via Source Tab – either Find a Source – or Filter by International & Pick I

Westlaw – Click Services – drop down Westlaw InternationalWestlaw – Click Services – drop down Westlaw International

Reliable Free Sources of Texts

Use databases maintained by

Governments International Organizations

As own library &/or as Official Depository

Eg African Commission on H&PR

To find reliable free e-sources Please do not use google/bing et al Use www.eisil.orgwww.eisil.org

Why? Mediated Gateway (ASIL) fewer hits always links to authoritative full text specialised search facilitiesAdded content - status, citations to

printed sources

http://www.eisil.org

Eisil’s great for more than treaties!

Free online Free online guide to guide to

researching researching IHR!IHR!

Search Results for African HR

More Information link

UNTS/UNTS/ILM citationILM citation

Great for Great for your your

dissertation!dissertation!

Some Key ConceptsUsing a Treaty may not only be a

matter of finding an authoritative text

Status / In force SignatoriesPartiesRatificationReservations

Online intro to Treaty Law

http://treaties.un.orghttp://treaties.un.org

Status of Treaties databaseStatus of Treaties database

QuirksQuirks

Use IEUse IE

Always hitAlways hitSearchSearch

[not return][not return]

Use ClearUse Clear

To avoid quirks drill down!

Control+f to search

Click on a treaty name & get …

Click on name of state to see more

detail about its participation

Details of reservations etc

Manipulating result

Citation for Citation for your your

dissertation!dissertation!

Icons left to right Print Email – example of what you next

follows Full text details – will often provide

link to full text of the Treaty from UNTS series

Certified True Copy HTML Add link to Favourites

Envelope / email option

Full Text windowWe

have come full

circle with a free

source of

UNTS text via these links!