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FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources

FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources. Abbreviations, Citation Guides, Directories Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Yearbooks Research Guides & Bibliographies. Abbreviations. What is U.C.L.J.?. Bieber’s – legal abbreviations. In Ready Reference next to the Reference Desk.

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FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources

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  1. FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources

  2. Abbreviations, Citation Guides, Directories • Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Yearbooks • Research Guides & Bibliographies

  3. Abbreviations What is U.C.L.J.?

  4. Bieber’s – legal abbreviations In Ready Reference next to the Reference Desk

  5. Does the Law Library provide access? Check GAVEL!

  6. Noble’s – law reporters abbreviations

  7. “M.L.R.”

  8. “BGBl”

  9. World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations • country-by-country • especially helpful if reading many materials from a particular jurisdiction • in Reference

  10. bundesgesetzblatt

  11. you need BGBl, Teil 1, 2009 no. 28: has the library received it? what we’ve received and bound received but not yet bound

  12. http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/ abbreviations for English language legal publications from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law

  13. In re Castioni, [1891] Q.B. 149 Q.B.

  14. Directories An article refers to an organization as “ICCTA” - what is it?

  15. directory of 1000’s of international organizations We don’t have current edition in Law Library but they do at the Main Library – in Reference

  16. International Organizations and Related Information http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore FREE!!

  17. More Helpful Tools

  18. Reynolds & Flores foreign law

  19. Commercial laws of the middle east

  20. I’m looking for a case decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in New Zealand Where are their decisions reported? Does the Law Library have this set? Check GAVEL!!

  21. More helpful resources….

  22. Restatement of the Law, 3rd on Foreign Relations

  23. Hague Academy, Recueil des Cours or Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law Location = Rusk Center Library in Rusk Hall “The best-known names in international law have taught at the Hague Academy of International Law. The Academy courses are collected in a publication, the Collected Courses, which appears in five to seven volumes per year.” Note: the courses are published in English and French Note: includes index volumes; also indexed in IFLP.

  24. Encyclopedia of Public International Law

  25. Encyclopedia of Public International Law

  26. Yearbooks of International Law

  27. Yearbook and international law

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

  29. Excellent resource for timely access to full text of international agreements, domestic legislation, court decisions • very selective • often translated • often w/ commentary

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