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Making the Connection… to the Rest of the World

Making the Connection… to the Rest of the World. Making the Connection…to the Rest of the World. Lyonette Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library llou@midway.uchicago.edu MAALL/CALL Joint Meeting, November 7, 2002. How to Make the Connection. Websites Databases

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  1. Making the Connection… to the Rest of the World

  2. Making the Connection…to the Rest of the World Lyonette Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library llou@midway.uchicago.edu MAALL/CALL Joint Meeting, November 7, 2002

  3. How to Make the Connection • Websites • Databases • Standard reference tools • People sources

  4. Criteria for Deciding What to Connect to (or Whom!) • Trustworthy? • Well-organized? • Useful content? Has or knows stuff you need? • Convenient? • Known/familiar? • Update regularly? • Annotated? Evaluated? • Aesthetically pleasing?

  5. Websites: Start with Your Own or Make Your Own • You know where things are in it • You know what’s in it (who’s on your team) • You know what its strengths are or what the game plan is • You can trust it

  6. Lyo’s Personal Page for International Legal Research

  7. Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global

  8. Bill Schwesig’s D’Angelo Law Library International Page

  9. Connect to the Best Information: Go Straight to the Source

  10. Law and Trade in the 21st Century

  11. Vienot Report (on Corporate Governance)

  12. Remember that Agencies Are on Your Team (Domestic, Foreign, and International) • United States • United Nations • Other Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs) • Regional Organizations • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) • Foreign Governments

  13. Connect to Your Local Team (U.S.Government Agencies)

  14. Department of State: Country Reports, Trade, Commerce, and International Law

  15. United States Trade Representative: Dispute Settlement

  16. And Don’t Forget Your Foreign Team!

  17. Canada: Trade Negotiations and Agreements

  18. Canada: Dispute Settlement (WTO, NAFTA, EU)

  19. Israel: Important Cases and Legislation in English

  20. Connect to IGO Websites: They’ve Got Everything; They’re the Best!

  21. United Nations Treaty Collection

  22. Really Current Status of Multilateral Treaties!

  23. United Nations Documentation Centre

  24. EUR-Lex: European Union Law Webpage

  25. OAS’ Foreign Trade Information System (SICE)

  26. If You’re Not Sure Where to Begin… • Check to see what’s in your own library first • Think globally, act locally…first

  27. Presenting… • Major Websites for Foreign and International Legal Research

  28. Cornell’s Legal Information Institute: International Law in a Nutshell • Law about… • Foreign Relations Law of the U.S. • International Law • International Trade • Law by source or jurisdiction • Recommended readings!

  29. Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII)

  30. LLRX.com

  31. U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guide Other Stefanie Weigman’s Guide Treaties

  32. ERG: By Librarians, For Librarians (and Others) • Direct links to treaty texts • Human Rights • International Economic Law • Treaties • International Commercial Arbitration, and more!

  33. ASIL’ Guide to IL Research on the Net

  34. NYU: Focus on Foreign Law Databases, and More! • Annotated links to databases of primary law • Evaluated, selected by Foreign Law Librarian • Updated frequently • On target contents • Codes, legislation, treaties, constitutions

  35. New York University’s FCIL Research Page

  36. Harvard’s Research Guides

  37. National Laws By Subject (Harvard)

  38. Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

  39. The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

  40. LexisNexis Especially for Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest, Matthew-Bender treatises, foreign law WESTLAW Especially for international tribunal decisions, UK law journals, Sweet & Maxwell publications, & int’l law journals Online Databases

  41. Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) • Union catalogs • Find foreign law • Find treaties • Verify information • Tables of contents • Browse call #s

  42. Reynolds & Flores PIL Nutshell CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s Law Digest The Bluebook Encyclopedia of Public International Law International Legal Materials (ILM) Standard Tools (Books)

  43. Reynolds & Flores

  44. Standard Tools (Cont’d) • Restatement of the Law, The Foreign Relations of the United States • Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law • International Law: Selected Documents • Yearbook of the United Nations • Matthew-Bender and Sweet & Maxwell • Berring’s research guides

  45. People Sources (Specialists in FCIL Research) Foreign Law Librarians Lawyers Documentalists/ IGO Librarians Professors

  46. AALL’s FCIL SIS Expert Help Project

  47. Libraries with Strong FCIL Collections in Chicago and Beyond • University of Chicago (D’Angelo Law Library, Regenstein Library, East Asian and other area studies collections • Northwestern University Law Library • Center for Research Libraries • Latin American Law • Other libraries

  48. The Archives of the INT-LAW E-Mail List

  49. How to Subscribe to INT-LAW Send an e-mail message to: majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org With only the following text in the body: subscribe int-law

  50. Archives of the EURO-LEX E-mail List

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