Jumpstart Your Foreign and International

ResearchAnna K. Teller

Dee J. Kelly Law LibraryTexas Wesleyan University School of Law

SWALL April 6, 2006

Planning Your Strategy

Places to StartSecondary Sources or Primary Sources

Secondary SourcesCommentaryRestatement of the Law Third, Foreign Relations

Law of the United StatesExplanationsPublic International Law In a NutshellLaw ReviewsLinda M. Keller, Is Truth Serum Torture?, 20 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev.

521 (2005).

Planning Your StrategyPrimary SourcesCodesCode of India, Children (Pledging of Labour) Act,

1933TreatiesExtradition Treaty between the United States

and the United Kingdom, signed 1972AgreementsAgreement Between the USA and the Republic

of Estonia on the Protection and Preservation of Certain Cultural Properties

Planning Your StrategyPrimary SourcesCase LawZino Davidoff SA v. A and G Imports Ltd.,

et al., Decision of European Court of Justice

RegulationsU.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Regulation of Food Product Importers under the Bioterrorism Act

Customary LawCustomary International Humanitarian

Law

Planning Your Strategy Print and Electronic

Finding AidsPrint Finding Aids

Kavass’ Guide to Treaties in Force

Electronic Finding AidsSearch Engines

Metacrawler http://www.metacrawler.comInvisible Web Searches

Librarians’ Internet Index http://www.lii.orgCatalogs

Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) http://www.eisil.org

Starting Points for Foreign and International

Law ResearchElectronic Resources

Harvard Law School Library Guide http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/international/web_resources/

HierosGamoshttp://www.hg.org/index.html

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

http://www.glin.gov/

Harvard Law School Library Guide

http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/international/web_resources/

Foreign and International Law Resources:

An Annotated Guide to Web Sites Around the World

Link to International Human Rights Instruments

HierosGamoshttp://www.hg.org/index.html

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) http://www.glin.gov/

Starting Points for Foreign and

International Law ResearchPrint Resources

Guide to International Legal Research, George Washington University Law School International Law Review (2005).

Mark W. Janis, An Introduction to International Law (4th ed. 2003).

Martindale Hubbell International Law Digest (2004).

Starting in PrintGuide to International

Legal Research

Starting in PrintAn Introduction to International Law

Quick ReferenceMartindale Hubbell International

Law Digest

Austria Law DigestIndex

Austria Law DigestIntroduction

Austria Law DigestComment on Statute of

Frauds

Selected Conventions from

Martindale Hubbell

International Law Subject Areas

Three focus areas of this presentation:

Public International Law refers to the law between or among nations. This area of the law includes treaties, agreements, and conventions.

Private International Law covers issues of choice of laws involving private actors across international boundaries. This is generally referred to in the United States as “conflict of laws.”

Foreign Law refers to the domestic laws of a particular, non-U.S. country, such as Holland or Japan.

International Law Subject Areas

Two additional areas:

Comparative Law is the study and comparative evaluation of the differences and similarities in several legal systems.

Transnational Law refers to law where public international law, private international law and comparative law intersect and overlap.

International Law aka Public International Law

International LawDefined: Public International Law refers to the law between or among nations. This area of the law includes treaties, agreements, and conventions.

SourcesTreaties

United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST)

International Legal Materials (ILM)Treaties and Other International Acts (TIAS)Treaties in Force (TIF)Consolidated Treaties and International Agreements

(CTIA)

International OrganizationsEuropean UnionUnited Nations

International Lawaka Public International

LawElectronic Resources Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)

http://www.eisil.org/

International Court of Justicehttp://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/RESOURCES/International_Resources/icj/

Yale’s Avalon Projecthttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

United Nations Treaty Collectionhttp://untreaty.un.org/

American Society of International Law Guide

http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm

Eur-Lex Portal to EU Lawhttp://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

Electronic Information System for International

Law (EISIL)EISIL http://www.eisil.org/

-Developed by American Society of International Law

-Goal of site is to help web searchers easily locate the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet

-Editorial enhancements include legal citations, entry into force and signature dates, amendments and brief descriptions

EISIL Homepage

Verifying Reliability and Coverage

About EISIL

Link to General International Law

Exploring Basic Sources of General International

Law

Statute of the International Court of

Justice

More Information Link

EISILEditorial Enhancements

Historical Materials

External Link to Yale’s Avalon Project

List of 19th Century Documents and Search

Query Box

Query‘+friendship +Switzerland’

Results - 13 Documents Sorted by Relevance

Convention of Friendship Between

the United States and Switzerland, 1850

Treaty Collection

Primary Documents