Making the Connection… to the Rest of the World

Lyonette Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library MAALL/CALL Joint Meeting, November 7, 2002

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

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?

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

Lyo’s Personal Page for International Legal Research

Finding Foreign Law Online When Going Global

Bill Schwesig’s D’Angelo Law Library International Page

Connect to the Best Information: Go Straight to the Source

Law and Trade in the 21 st Century

Vienot Report (on Corporate Governance)

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

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

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

United States Trade Representative: Dispute Settlement

And Don’t Forget Your Foreign Team!

Canada: Trade Negotiations and Agreements

Canada: Dispute Settlement (WTO, NAFTA, EU)

Israel: Important Cases and Legislation in English

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

United Nations Treaty Collection

Really Current Status of Multilateral Treaties!

United Nations Documentation Centre

EUR-Lex: European Union Law Webpage

OAS’ Foreign Trade Information System (SICE)

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

Presenting… Major Websites for Foreign and International Legal Research

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute: International Law in a Nutshell 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!

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII)

LLRX.com

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

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

ASIL’ Guide to IL Research on the Net

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

New York University’s FCIL Research Page

Harvard’s Research Guides

National Laws By Subject (Harvard)

Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

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

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

Reynolds & Flores

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

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

AALL’s FCIL SIS Expert Help Project

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

The Archives of the INT-LAW List

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Archives of the EURO-LEX List

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How to Stay Connected Read the basic international legal research guides Read international news sources (see Harvard’s page and the ASIL ERG (so you’re prepared for requests for hot documents in the news)Harvard’s pageASIL ERG Monitor listservs such as INT-LAW and EURO- LEX (where you can also ask for help) Attend conferences (see the IJLI “International Calendar” for dates) and get to know the foreign and international law specialists. Network!International Calendar Bookmark & try new links right away!

International Calendar for Legal Information Events

Checklist of Connections to Make Check websites… Check databases… Check standard tools.. Research guides OPACs Indexes Check people sources… IGOs, NGOs, embassies Listservs

Question #1: Does the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation have a Web page? Yes, at (there is a link to it from the NAFTA Secretariat page) Secretariat Also NYU has a link from its International Environment Law page; ditto with the ASIL ERG for International Environmental LawInternational Environment Law ASIL ERG for International Environmental Law

Question #2: What does “RIDC” stand for? Revue internationale de droit comparé! (using Sarah Carter’s wonderful “LawLinks” page of abbreviations)LawLinks Alternative sources include searching in a full text journal articles database, searching in an online catalogue, or an Internet search engine, or using Bieber’s or the Bluebook

Question #3: Where can I find the text of the 1958 New York Convention? It’s old, but it’s on the Net! The ASIL ERG has a link to it. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards is also at the AustLII Treaties Library (ATS 1975 No. 25)ASIL ERGlinkATS 1975 No. 25 It also available via other official and unofficial sources such as UNCITRALand InternationalADRUNCITRAL InternationalADR

Question #4: Where can I find an English translation of the Israeli GSS Torture Case? The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has an English summary of it as well as a link to the full text of the English translation from the Israeli Supreme Court (see under “Legal Issues and Rulings”)English translation B’Tselem also links to the text. B’Tselem

English Summary of Case, with Link to Translated Text

Question #5: Where can I find the Pope & Talbot v. Canada (NAFTA) arbitral decisions? At the DFAIT NAFTA Dispute Settlement Page!NAFTA Dispute Settlement See also NAFTA Claims website.NAFTA Claims

Question #7: Where can I find a 1960 UN Security Council Resolution on Adolf Eichmann? At the UN Documentation Centre web page (Resolution 138, June 23, 1960)UN Documentation Centre

How to Stay Connected…Continued Attend workshops, seminars, and training courses (both substantive and bibliographic) Attend specialized database sessions Maintain a personal or institutional web page READ, READ, READ research guides and substantive international law articles Do you feel the burn?

Question #8: How do you find the “drafting history” of an international agreement? See Jonathan Pratter’s excellent PowerPoint presentation for some good background information (and why “legislative history” is a misleading term to use here)Jonathan Pratter’s “Travaux préparatoires”/preparatory works have been published for some major treaties such as the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (check online catalogues)

Finding “Travaux Préparatoires” for Treaties

Question #9: Where can you find an English translation of the French Vienot Report on Corporate Governance? My current favorite Internet search engine, Google, is great for this type of question – a document with a popular name on a hot topic. Google The European Corporate Governance Network has a link to Vienot I and Vienot II in English from the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF)European Corporate Governance NetworkMEDEF

Google Search Results for: “Vienot Report” English

Question #8: Where Can I Find “Control Council Law No. 10” (Nuremberg War Crimes Trials)? Yale’s Avalon Project is a great resource for major, historic documents and it includes a collection of Nuremberg War Crimes Trials documentsAvalon Project Links to other sources of War Crimes documents are also available from other “Best of the Web” sites

You know you’re ready to move up to the next level when... You take less time to find the right anwers Someone asks a question on a listserv and you know you can answer that You no longer feel the burn…

Touchdown! You’re Connected to the World!

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We’re done! See y’all on the Net!