Source Collecting: JMEIL

1. Source Collecting: JMEIL Marci Hoffman October 2012 mhoffman@law.berkeley.edu Where to find me: Law Library LL 164 Tuesdays & Wednesdays, reference desk, 5-6 (usually)

2. Overview • Getting Started • Some General Sources • Step 1: Review Sources • Step 2: Abbreviations • Step 3: International Legal Sources • Step 4: Foreign Legal Sources • Step 5: Books and Journal Articles • Step 6: Electronic Sources • Step 7: Newspaper Articles • Step 8: Copying/Downloading

3. Getting Started • What you need: • The text of the article • Source collection list • A bit of time and patience • Keep track of what you have done • Why do I need the article • Decipher the jurisdiction of a source being cited • Put the source in context • Take a few moments to review materials from this training!

4. Reading Citations Basics of citation: [volume number] abbreviation of source [page number] Journal article: Milstein, Clinical Legal Education in the United States: In-house Clinics, Externships, and Simulations, 51 J. LEGAL EDUC. 375 (2001) author’s name, title of article, [volume number] abbreviation of journal [page on which article begins] [page that contains cited information] (year of publication) Treaty:U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, December 10, 1982, Article 85, 1833 U.N.T.S. 3 name of treaty, date of signing, [volume number] abbreviation of source [first page of the treaty] The Bluebook is sometimes helpful on how to read citations.

5. General Sources • Library’s website, see Student Resources • LawCat • Melvyl (UC system-wide, no law records since July 2007) • OskiCat (UCB libraries only, no law) • WorldCat • Research Guides • Databases (UCB only) • Access to subscription databases • off-campus

6. LawCat contains records for the books and journals available in our library. Always start here first. Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice 1 (2006) . There is a record for the print and the electronic.

7. LawCat Some records in LawCat say “Request to Retrieve.” These items are still available, but you must request the item. You can do this from the record.

8. Request to Retrieve

9. Step 1: Review Sources • Primary Sources • Treaties and international agreements • Foreign law • International case law • Documents from IGOs • Secondary Sources • Books • Articles • Reports • Newspaper articles • Other sources

10. Step 2: Abbreviations • Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations • Bieber’s Dictionary • The Bluebook (19th ed. 2010) • Help decipher abbreviations • Use Index and Tables • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations (2nd ed.) Available at the Reference Desk • Noble’s International Guide to Law Reports • World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations • International Citation Manual

11. Step 3: International Sources • Treaties & International Agreements • Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International Instruments • UN Treaties on HeinOnline • Flare Index to Treaties • Note: treaty, agreement, protocol, MOU, convention, accord, covenant  treaties • See Table 4 of The Bluebook.

13. Example • 1997 Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (hereinafter the 1997 Convention). • Author is citing to • GA Res. 51/229 • 36 ILM 700 • Use Flare Index to Treaties • Act Regarding Navigation and Economic Co-operation between the States of the Niger Basin, signed at Niamey on 26 October 1963. Text in United Nations Treaty Series, Vol. 587, 1964, p. 26. • HeinOnline

14. Step 3: International Sources • United Nations Documents (U.N. Doc.) • UN Documentation Centre • Official Document Service (ODS) • UNBISnet • UN Bodies • See rule 21.7 and Table 3 of The Bluebook for help deciphering UN abbreviations.

16. Example • United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), Survey of Economic and Social Development in the ESCWA Region 1990-1991, (Amman: UN ESCWA/DPD/1992/8, 1992). • UN Documentation Centre • UNBISnet • ODS • International Law page on UN website • International Law Commission

17. Step 3: International Law • International Case Law • Sources vary, but start w/ court or tribunal’s website • PCIJ, ICJ, ECHR, ECJ, ICSID, … • International Law Reports (I.L.R.) (UCB only) • International Legal Reports (incorrect) • Oxford Reports on International Law (UCB only) • International Courts & Tribunals Library • Many reporters available in print

18. Example • Case concerning the Territorial Jurisdiction of the International Commission of the River Oder, Judgement No. 16 (1929), PCIJ, Ser. A, No. 23, p. 27. • ICJ website • HeinOnline • Print

19. Step 4: Foreign Law Sources • Foreign Law Guide • Globalex • Egypt • A Selective List of Guides to Foreign Legal Research • Other databases • Websites • WorldLII • CANLII • AUSTLII

20. Example • Law No. 23 of 2009 (Law of the Higher Education for Scientific Research Act for the Year 2009). • Foreign Law Guide (UCB only) • Google search: • Law No. 23 of 2009 Law of the Higher Education for Scientific Research Act Jordan • Lexadin link to Jordanian Ministry • http://www.mohe.gov.jo/Portals/0/gov_paper/23-2009%20E.pdf • http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/ • http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/documents/s17241e/s17241e.pdf

21. Examples • The Kingdom of Egypt knew two constitutions; the 1923 Constitution and the 1930 Constitution. • World Constitutions Illustrated (UCB only) • Case 11, judicial Year 13, issued July 8, 2000 • Legal Research Guide

22. Country Not Listed in Bluebook • See Rule 20, page 179 • Basic information on how to format citations for countries not covered in T2 • Covers constitutions, cases, statutes, etc. • Examples!

24. Step 5 : Books & Articles • Books • LawCat (law library only) • OskiCat (UCB libraries, does not include the law library) • Melvyl (UC libraries, not complete for the law library) • Book Chapter • Signal that it’s a chapter – “in” • Frank S. Bloch, Introduction, in The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice xxiii (Frank S. Bloch, ed. 2010) . • Search LawCat for the title: Global Clinical Movement.

25. Example • S. Spiegel and D. Pervin, Practical Peace-making in the Middle East, vol. II, (Garland Publishing, Inc, 1995), pp. 171-191. • LawCat • OskiCat • Melvyl • ERWIN FAHLBUSCH, THE ENCYCLOBEDIA OF CHRISTIANITY: VOLUME 5: Si-Z 189 (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2008). • OskiCat

26. Step 5: Articles • Law Journal Databases • LegalTrac (also on LX and WL as “Legal Resources Index”) • Index to Legal Periodicals • HeinOnline • E-Journal Titles A-Z • Great for non-law journals • Lexis & Westlaw • Many journals are not on LX or WL, especially non-law • Locate the title of the journal by using source directories or indexes.

27. Example • Shlomi Dinar, Power Asymmetry and Negotiations in International Rivers Basinsi, 14 INT’L NEGOTIATION, 2009. • LawCat -- title search: International Negotiation • Adham A. Hashish, Fighting Corruption: Civic Governance under Development Law (In Arabic) 28 ARAB JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE 63 (2010). • This journal is only in Arabic. • D. Wishart, The Breakdown of the Johnston Negotiations over the Jordan Waters vol. 26, 4 Middle Eastern Studies, October 1990. • OskiCat

34. Type title of the journal

35. Other steps • Step 6: Electronic sources • Consider the source -- use best electronic source available • Step 7: Newspaper articles • LexisNexis • Westlaw • Other News databases (NY Times, Wall Street J.) • Web • Step 8: Copying (scanning & downloading) • Title pages • Page numbers • Note: You cannot scan for free at other campus libraries

36. Other Tips • Many sources are not: • available in English • available electronically • Use The Bluebook as a guide • follow the examples • Google is just one tool – not the only tool • Use the Advanced Search option on Google • The “search within a site or domain” can be very useful when a site has a limited search mechanism. You can also limit searches to .org or some other generic extension • Ask the librarians for help!

37. Google Advanced Search