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Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle!

Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle!. Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle!. By Lyonette “Lyo” Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library llou@midway.uchicago.edu (for the Chicago Journal of International Law, Sept. 4, 2001). Presenting….

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Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle!

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  1. Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle!

  2. Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle! By Lyonette “Lyo” Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library llou@midway.uchicago.edu (for the Chicago Journal of International Law, Sept. 4, 2001)

  3. Presenting… • The Best of the Web for Foreign and International Legal Research

  4. Best of the Web, Part I: General F/IL Pages • Our U of C Law Library web page • ASIL’s ERG • Harvard, NYU • LLRX.com • Cornell’s LII

  5. Best of the Web, Part II: Specialized Resources • Yale’s Avalon Project • IGO websites (UN, etc.) • NGOs/Assocs. • Gov’t Agencies • Research Centers/Think Tanks

  6. The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

  7. United Nations Documentation Centre

  8. AccessUN

  9. EUR-Lex: European Union Law

  10. EU Cases via WESTLAW (see also EHHR)

  11. EU Legislation: Directives, Regulations, Decisions, Treaties

  12. Standard Weights (E-Tools) • Internet search engines (such as Google) • Online catalogues (WorldCat is great!) • Full-text journal article databases and indexes (WESTLAW’s TP-ALL, LEXIS, JSTOR, ProQuest; LegalTrac, IFLP, PAIS, PSA, etc.) • News sources (LEXIS, WESTLAW, etc.) • Gateways/Portals/Meta-Pages (FindLaw, SOSIG, BUBL, Yahoo!, Hieros Gamos, JURIST) • Directories, listservs, & other “people” sources

  13. Congressional Masterfile (via Congressional Universe)

  14. Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)

  15. CSA’s Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

  16. United Nations’ Treaty Collection AustLII/DFAT’s Treaties Library U.S. Treaties via LX/WL Yale’s Avalon Project Fletcher’s Multilaterals Project Gov’t Agencies, IGOs, NGOs, etc. Treaties

  17. United Nations Treaty Collection (has weekly treaty status updates via Multilateral Treaties Deposited)

  18. Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

  19. LexisNexis

  20. International Legal Materials (I.L.M.) via LexisNexis

  21. Finding the Citation to the “New York Convention” via TP-ALL

  22. U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guide Other Stefanie Weigman’s Guide Treaties (Cont’d)

  23. Finding Foreign Law Online Generally, and in Translation • NYU • Foreign Primary Law on the Web • GLIN • Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global • Harvard

  24. Finding Foreign Law/in Translation (Cont’d) • Check research guides • Check OPACs • Check indexes • Contact embassies • Use listservs • *Reynolds & Flores

  25. Personal Trainers (“People” Contacts for Research Help) Gov’t agencies, Organizations, etc. Lawyers Your Friendly U of C Librarians! Professors

  26. But sometimes you have to sweat it out with hardcopy… • Check for call numbers in the online catalog • Walk to the Reserve Reading Room, the Reference Area, and most of the time, the 6th Floor • Pull out the books and check them out for answers • And you’ll become very familiar with…

  27. Reynolds & Flores World Almanac CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s Int’l Law Digest World Treaty Index Encyclopedia of Public International Law International Legal Materials (ILM) Standard Weights (Books)

  28. U.S. Treaties in Force (as of January 1, 2000)

  29. International Legal Materials (I.L.M.)

  30. FIN

  31. We’re done! See y’all at the Ref desk!

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