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

Does the Law Library provide access? Check GAVEL!

Noble’s – law reporters abbreviations

“M.L.R.”

“BGBl”

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

bundesgesetzblatt

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

/ abbreviations for English language legal publications from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law

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

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

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

International Organizations and Related Information FREE!!

More Helpful Tools

Reynolds & Flores foreign law

Commercial laws of the middle east

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

More helpful resources….

Restatement of the Law, 3rd on Foreign Relations

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.

Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Yearbooks of International Law

Yearbook and international law

International Legal Materials (I.L.M.)

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

The Bluebook likes I.L.M. as an unofficial source

ILM is in Lexis & Westlaw ASILEX indexes ILM from Also indexes several other ASIL publications, webinars, etc.

human trafficking

Research Guides check Gavel Web law reviews library literature

Research guides: Check GAVEL human rights research

Research guides: on the Web (e.g., )

GlobaLex - at NYU's Global Law School Program

Sample from GlobaLex guide to researching Dutch Law

Research Guides: in law reviews

Research guides: in library literature

available in Hein Online and Lexis