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FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources.  Abbreviations, Citation Guides, Directories  Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Yearbooks  Research Guides & Bibliographies.

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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

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6 Does the Law Library provide access? Check GAVEL!

7 Noble’s – law reporters abbreviations

8 “M.L.R.”

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10 “BGBl”

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

12 bundesgesetzblatt

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

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15 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

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

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

20 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

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

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23 More Helpful Tools

24 Reynolds & Flores foreign law

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27 Commercial laws of the middle east

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31 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?

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34 More helpful resources….

35 Restatement of the Law, 3rd on Foreign Relations

36 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.

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38 Encyclopedia of Public International Law

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43 Yearbooks of International Law

44 Yearbook and international law

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

50 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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53 The Bluebook likes I.L.M. as an unofficial source

54 ILM is in Lexis & Westlaw ASILEX indexes ILM from 1990 -. Also indexes several other ASIL publications, webinars, etc.

55 human trafficking

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57 Research Guides check Gavel Web law reviews library literature

58 Research guides: Check GAVEL human rights research

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60 Research guides: on the Web (e.g., www.llrx.com )

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62 GlobaLex - at NYU's Global Law School Program

63 Sample from GlobaLex guide to researching Dutch Law

64 Research Guides: in law reviews

65 Research guides: in library literature

66 available in Hein Online and Lexis

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