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FCIL Reference Tools & Secondary Sources
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Abbreviations, Citation Guides, Directories Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Yearbooks Research Guides & Bibliographies
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Abbreviations What is U.C.L.J.?
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Bieber’s – legal abbreviations In Ready Reference next to the Reference Desk
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Does the Law Library provide access? Check GAVEL!
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Noble’s – law reporters abbreviations
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“M.L.R.”
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“BGBl”
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World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations country-by-country especially helpful if reading many materials from a particular jurisdiction in Reference
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bundesgesetzblatt
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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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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
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Q.B. In re Castioni, [1891] Q.B. 149
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Directories An article refers to an organization as “ICCTA” - what is it?
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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
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International Organizations and Related Information http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore FREE!!
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More Helpful Tools
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Reynolds & Flores foreign law
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Commercial laws of the middle east
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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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More helpful resources….
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Restatement of the Law, 3rd on Foreign Relations
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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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Encyclopedia of Public International Law
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Yearbooks of International Law
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Yearbook and international law
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International Legal Materials (I.L.M.)
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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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The Bluebook likes I.L.M. as an unofficial source
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ILM is in Lexis & Westlaw ASILEX indexes ILM from 1990 -. Also indexes several other ASIL publications, webinars, etc.
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human trafficking
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Research Guides check Gavel Web law reviews library literature
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Research guides: Check GAVEL human rights research
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Research guides: on the Web (e.g., www.llrx.com )
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GlobaLex - at NYU's Global Law School Program
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Sample from GlobaLex guide to researching Dutch Law
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Research Guides: in law reviews
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Research guides: in library literature
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available in Hein Online and Lexis
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