1. Bodleian Law Library
Key stuff & tools to find more!
Michaelmas 2013
Public International Law

2. Finding (e-)stuff
 Treaties
 Case law
 UN material
 Customary law
Commentary
 Encyclopaedia
 E-books OSAIL
 Finding journal articles

3. Multi-laterals: 1920s to date
 LNTS
Coverage 1920-1946
 UNTS
Coverage 1946 to date
 Internat 10
 HeinOnline – UN Law Collection
 Freely available [pdfs] via
www.worldlii.org/int/other/treaties/LNTSer/
 AVOID the UN’s own Treaty website for texts!!

4. Not in UNTS?
International Legal Materials
Complete Journal
 LexisLibrary: 1962 onwards
 Internat 300 I240
HeinOnline v.1(1962)-v.50(2011)
Just treaties from ILM
 Westlaw Int: 1980 v.19 on

5. Incidentally Westlaw Int– useful for
international commercial arbitration!

6. Free web for national tss
 National Treaty series –e.g. UKTS via
UKTO (UK Treaties Online) = part of
FCO website (but with disclaimer)
Note HeinOnline’s Treaty &
Agreements Library … for U.S.A.
treaties, whether currently in-force,
expired, or not-yet officially
published.

8. Secretariats: added value!

9. Some Treaty Questions
 Is the treaty in force? EIF
 Which states have signed, ratified,
repudiated, or modified this treaty?
 Have any states expressed
reservations to the treaty or made a
declaration of interpretation?

10. Treaty status: MTDSG
Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the
Secretary-General
Formerly printed as ST/LEG/SER/E/
Now On-line version is updated daily

11. http://treaties.un.org

12. “Quirky” so drill down

14. TREATIES: LATEST
DEVELOPMENTS
Also on UN’s Treaty website

15. Hover mouse over link
to see treaty name
Depositary Notifications
Int. Convention for Suppression of Financing of Terrorism

16. BITS: bilateral investment
Subscription Databases:
 Investment Claims (over 1000 BITS)
 Kluwer Arbitration
 IA Reporter – news & analysis on
treaty negotiations
 Investor State Law
 TDM Transnational Dispute
Management

17. BITS: free web for texts

18. Tax treaties - LexisLibrary

19. Law Reports & Cases

20. International Law Reports
(ILR)
 General collection
 1919 –
 Decisions of both international courts
& national tribunals applying PIL
 All translated into English
 Internat 100 I61
 Online via Justis

21. ILR in JUSTIS

22. Oxford Reports on International law
Modules
 International Courts of General
Jurisdiction
 International Criminal Law
 International Human Rights Law
 International Investment Claims
 International Law in Domestic Courts
Via OxLIP+ type ORIL

23. ORIL: added to “daily”

24. Default –
searches all
unless you
limit/refine

29. Related Items panel

30. ICJ (Lexis,Westlaw, Hein too!)
Free + In summary form 1946 to 1969, full-text from 1970
onwards.
ALSO gives you Permanent Court of Justice Archive 1922-46

31. Don’t let gray put you off!

32. Human Rights Reports
BHRC in Lexis EHRR in Westlaw UK

33. Human Rights Cases
 European Court HUDOC
 African Court on Human & Peoples’
Rights www.african-court.org/en/
 Inter-American Court of HR
www.corteidh.or.cr/
 Interights (summaries)

34. Google HUDOC

37. 38 individual databases
WorldLII – databases & portal

38. http://www.ecolex.org/start.php

39. Asser Institute EEL case law

40. UNITED NATIONS
 Publications?
 If a major series, try HeinOnline first
 Documents?
official.papers@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

41. //libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/un

42. Customary law/”law of nations”
 “State practice”
 Government (or ministry websites)
e.g. Digest of US Practice in Int.L
http://www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm
 National year books (or yearbooks)
 Not official but can help with citations
to/summaries of, reproductions of
official govt doxs as well as academic
analysis

43. Encyclopedia
 New topic?
 New concept?
 New jargon?
Also
 Bibliography
starter
 Max Planck
Encyclopedia of
Public
International
Law (MPEPIL)
 Via OxLIP+ = max
 Sign In if off
campus/no vpn
with SSO

44. QuickSearch:TRIPS
TRIPS

45. OR, NOT, ?, *,“[exact]”,w or w/out accents, Eng or US sp.

48. In print only
 Encyclopedia of the United Nations
and international agreements
(3rd ed 2003) Internat 687 E56a3
 Parry and Grant encyclopædic
dictionary of international law (3rd ed
2009) Internat 450 P264b3
 Encyclopedia of human rights (2009)
Order from closed stacks

49. MAJOR ONLINE WORKS

50. OSAIL
 Oxford Scholarly Authorities on
Internat Law
 “classic” works which happen to be
OUP
 E.g. Oppenheim's International Law,
MCNAIR Treaties, CASSESE Rome
Statute of ICC etc etc
Not yet on SOLO – but linked from
MPEPIL & ORIL & see handout

51. Get to OSAIL from MPEPIL
OR ORIL or Oxford Citator

53. Hague Academy Collected
Courses
 In OxLIP+ type in Haye
 Courses for pgs in public & private
int. law
 leading academics & practitioners,
judges, diplomats
 Eng OR Fre
 Internat 300 A20.

55. The great article hunt
Via OxLIP+
 Index to Foreign Legal
Periodicals
 Index to Legal Periodicals
 try also SSCI (Social Science
Citation Index)
 Try also PAIS International?

56. Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

57. Social Science Citation Index

58. Max Planck Institute
documentation of articles

60. Copy & paste
journal title
into OU e-
journals or
SOLO or
LawBod Search
our tool

61. News
 Court’s, Organization’s etc own
website
 ASIL Insights
http://www.asil.org/insights
“provide brief, balanced accounts of
the international law issues raised by
newsworthy late-breaking events”

62. More help online
 ASIL’s E-rg Electronic Research
Guide
 ASIL’s EISIL Electronic Information
System for International Law