NYU School of Law

Researching International and Foreign Law
Bluebook R.20 and R.21 and Tables T.2, T.3, T.4, etc.

TIPS and STRATEGIES:

1: For cite-checking: Run a search in the law review file of WESTLAW or LexisNexis using part of a hard-to-find source to see if another article has already cited it.

2: Check out the all-PDF law reviews, official U.S. sources and treaty sources in HeinOnLine--especially the Foreign & International Law Resources Database.

3: Can't find it in this guide?

• Try the NYU Law Library Guide to Foreign and International Databases.

•  Search library catalogs such as Julius, using the name of an international organization, court, country, or government body, in an author, subject or keyword search.

4: Check the ASIL International Law in Brief <www.asil.org/ilib/ilibarch.htm> for texts of recent international law cases, U.N. resolutions and other international law documents.

5. Use Journal Titles (from the Law Library homepage) to find full-text journals in print, electronic, and/or PDF (excluding LexisNexis and Bobst print and microfiche journals).

ABBREVIATIONS  You may need the full title behind an abbreviation before you can search for the source in a library catalog. Try the following:

•  your manuscript text and surrounding footnotes

•  Bluebook Tables

•   Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations  <www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/>

•  Bieber's Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations: A Reference Guide for Attorneys, Legal Secretaries, Paralegals, and Law Students. Prince's 5th Edition. Mary Miles Prince. Buffalo, N.Y.: W.S. Hein, 2001.
Circ Desk and Reference  KF246 .B46 2001

•   World Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations. Igor I. Kavass, Mary Miles Prince. eds. [Buffalo, N.Y.]: W. S. Hein, 1991-.
Reference  K89 .K38 1991

•  Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations. Donald Raistrick.  2nd ed. London; New York: Bowker-Saur, 1993.
Reference  KD400 .R35 1993

•  Noble's Revised International Guide to the Law Reports. Scott Noble. Etobicoke, Ont.: Nicol Island Pub., 2002.
Reference  K89 .N63 2002

CITATION MANUALS

•   Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations. Published by the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics.

DICTIONARIES and ENCYCLOPEDIAS

•   Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law; under the direction of Rudolf Bernhardt; assistant general editor, Peter Macalister-Smith
Consolidated library ed. Amsterdam; New York: North-Holland, 1992-2003. 5 vols.  Reference  KZ1160 .E53 1992

•  International Law: A Dictionary. Boleslaw A. Boczek. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005.  Reference  KZ1161 .B63 2005
See also the earlier The International Law Dictionary. Robert L. Bledsoe and Boleslaw A. Boczek.  Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 1987. Compact Shelves  JX1226 B57 1987

•   Dictionary of International and Comparative Law. James R. Fox. 3rd ed. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 2003.
Reference  KZ1161 .F69 2003

•   Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law. Ed. John P. Grant and J. Craig Barker. 2nd ed. New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 2004. Reference  KZ1161 .P37 2004

•  The Oxford Companion to Law. David M. Walker. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
Reference   K48 .W34 1980

•  Who's Who in Public International Law. With a foreword by Elihu Lauterpacht. Cambridge, UK: Crestwall Ltd., 2007-.
ON ORDER

•  Yearbook of the United Nations, 1947-. Not an encyclopedia per se, but if you know the approximate year when a UN-related event took place, this is a good place to situate it in UN history  and get citations to a few major resolutions and documents.
Compact Shelves JX1977 A37 Y4

•  Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements. Edmund Jan Osmacyzk; edited by Anthony Mango. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2003. 4 vols.
Reference  KZ4968 .O86 2003

•  United Nations: Law, Policies, and Practice. Ed. Rudiger Wolfrum. New, rev. English ed. Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff; Munchen: C.H. Beck, 1995. 2 vols.
Reference  JX1977 .A38 1995

•  A Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations. Ed. Helmut
Volger. (Lexikon der Vereinten Nationen. English.) The Hague; New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002.
Reference   KZ4968 .L4913 2002

•  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations. Cathal J. Nolan. Westport, CT: Greenwood Pub., 2002. 4 vols.
Reference   JZ1160 .N65 2002

•  International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law.  Tubingen: Mohr; New York: Oceana, 1971-
Reference   K530 .I57 1973

•  Elger Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. Ed. Jan M. Smits.  Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Pub., 2006.  Reserve  K48 .E42 2006

•  A selection of foreign language dictionaries is kept at the Reference Desk.
    

TREATISES (Books)

Selected Treatises:

•   Bowett's Law of International Institutions. Philippe Sands and Pierre Klein. 5th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2001.
Reserve  KZ4850 .B69 2001

•  The Law of Nations: An Introduction to the International Law of Peace. J.L. Brierly. 6th ed. Ed. Sir Humphrey Waldock. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Reserve and Compact Shelves  JX3225 B85 1963

•   Principles of Public International Law. Ian Brownlie. 6th ed.
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Reserve  KZ3225.B76 A37 2003

•  Public International Law in a Nutshell. Thomas Buergenthal,
Sean D. Murphy. 4th ed. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2007.
Circ  KZ3092 .B84 2007

•  An Introduction to International Law. Mark W. Janis. 4th ed.
New York: Aspen Publishers, 2003.
Reserve  KZ3140.J36 A35 2003

•  Akehurst's Modern Introduction to International Law. 7th rev. ed. Peter Malanczuk. London; New York: Routledge, 1997.
Reserve KZ1242 .M35 1997 (8th ed ON ORDER, not yet published)

•  Oppenheim's International Law. 9th ed. Robert Jennings and Arthur Watts. Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, 1992-. Vol 1, pt.1 and vol. 1, pts. 2-4.  Circ  JX3264 I61 1992

•  International Law. Malcolm Shaw. 5th ed. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Reserve  KZ3275 .S53 2003

To find other books, search Julius, other library catalogs, and mega-catalogs such as RLG Union Catalog (Research Libraries Group) and OCLC FirstSearch (Worldcat). Start with keywords. To expand your search, use the subject headings for the books that you find. 
    

JOURNALS AND LAW REVIEWS

•  To identify articles on your topic, use the Article Finders search box on the Julius Online Catalog.

Hein Online has searchable PDFs of U.S. laws reviews starting with volume 1.

JSTOR is especially good for interdisciplinary research because you can combine groups of subject journals to search,  e.g., law, political science and history.

Index to Legal Periodicals covers U.S. and U.K. law reviews, 1918-1980, and 1981-.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, 1985-.  A multilingual index of articles and book reviews, etc., published worldwide and covering international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia.

For newspapers and non-legal journals, also use Proquest Direct.

•  Many of the same article finders, and others such as PAIS,  Public Affairs Information Service, are accessible via Bobst Library>articles via databases>Databases by Title or Subject.
    
•  WESTLAW and LexisNexis do not cover all the journals covered by the Article Finders, generally do not have PDFs and do not cover early years for many journals. You must be a student, faculty or staff member of the NYU Law School to obtain passwords to WESTLAW and LexisNexis.

•  If you do not have a LexisNexis or WESTLAW password, use LexisNexis Academic.

•  Legal Journals Index (LJI in WESTLAW, 1986-) abstracts  over 430 English-language periodicals published in the UK and Europe or pertaining to EU law. It includes journals not covered by the full-text journals in WESTLAW and LexisNexis, including some industry publications. 

•  EJIL European Journal of International Law  <www.ejil.org/index.html>
Full-text of earlier volumes is available online (Archive), along with one article and abstracts of other articles from the current issue. The website also offers searchable books reviews from EJIL (Archive), a discussion list, links to related websites, and a "Current Developments" section that reports on recent developments in international law fora.

• RAVE  <www.jura.uni-duesseldorf.de/rave/e/englhome.asp>  Citations to recent decisions and articles in public international law and European law starting with 1995, with links to full text where available.

•  Public International Law: A Current Bibliography of Books and Articles. Compiled by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1975-  Compact Shelves  JX1226 P72
Based upon evaluation of over 1400 journals, yearbook and festschriften. Also lists books newly acquired by the Max Planck Institute library.

You can also search articles since 1996 indexed by the Max Planck Institute library in the fields of public international law, comparative law and municipal law at <http://www.mpil.de/ww/en/pub/library/catalogues_databases/doc_of_articles.cfm>

• A Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law. Compiled and Annotated by Charles Szladits. New York: Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University in the city of New York: Distributed by Oceana Publications, 1955-.  B1 K38 .B53

•  When you have a list of articles and need to find the journals, use Journal Titles from Law Library home page. These include html, WESTLAW (if you have a password), PDFs, abstracts, and hardcopy journals in the Law Library, but not LexisNexis or Bobst print or microform journals. NOTE: Search the Journal title, NOT the article title. If you don't find the journal through Journal Titles, try LexisNexis and BobCat. Then consult the Reference Desk about visiting another local library or requesting an interlibrary loan through your home library (Law Library, Bobst Library, etc.).
    

RESEARCH GUIDES AND LINKS

• New York University Law Library Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
Treaties, human rights, international trade, international organizations, European Union, World Trade Organization, foreign (non-U.S) law, international criminal law (international criminal tribunals), international law databases (including Foreign Relations of the United States), etc.

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law <www.asil.org/resource/home.htm>

• EISIL, the American Society of International Law Electronic Information System for International Law  <www.asil.org/system/eisil.htm> Treaty texts with citations, dates, etc.; other primary document texts; websites; and research guides. To get started, click on "Search EISIL."

•  Guide to International Legal Research. The George Washington University Law School International Law Review. LexisNexis, 2006.
Reserve  KZ1234 .G35

•  Go to GlobaLex <www.nyulawglobal.com/index.htm> and LLRX.com <www.llrx.com> for an expert research guide on an international organization or the law of a foreign jurisdiction.

TREATIES   Bluebook R. 21.4 and Table T.4
Article 38(1)(a) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice states:

The Court, whose function it is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply:

a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states

General introductions:

Aust, Anthony. Modern Treaty Law and Practice. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Reserve and Compact Shelves KZ1301 A93 2000

ASIL guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Treaties by Jill McC. Watson. <www.asil.org/resource/treaty1.htm>

United States Treaties
United Nations and League of Nations Treaties
Unofficial treaty sources--General
Finding other treaties

SHORT CUTS TO TREATIES...
•  University of Minnesota Law Library: Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International Instruments <www.law.umn.edu/library/tools/pathfinders/most-cited.html>
U.N., U.S. and I.L.M. citations to major treaties.

•  Multilateral Treaty Calendar = Répertoire des traités
multilateraux, 1648-1995. Christian L. Wiktor. The Hague; Boston: M. Nijhoff Publishers; Cambridge, Mass.: Sold and distributed in North, Central, and South America by Kluwer Law International, 1998.  This chronological list provides citations to multilateral and national treaty sources. NOTE: Coverage stops after 1995.
Reference Desk   KZ118 .W55 1998

•  Multilateral Treaties: Index and Current Status. Compiled and
annotated within the University of Nottingham Treaty Centre by
M.J. Bowman and D.J. Harris. London: Butterworths, 1984.
NOTE: Coverage stops after 1993.
Reference Desk  JX151 B68 1984

•  World Treaty Index. Peter H. Rohn. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio Information Services, 1983-l984. 5 v. Lists bilateral and multilateral treaties. NOTE: Coverage stops after 1980.
Reference Desk   JX171 R64 W6 1983

•  EISIL Treaty Collections .American Society of International Law electronic collection of treaties and research guides.  <www.eisil.org/index.php?sid=297648529&cat=705&t=sub_pages>
Click on "More Information" for treaty citations, entry into force and signature dates, web versions, etc.

•  United States Treaties in Force

• [United Nations] Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General: Status as at [date]. United Nations Treaty Collection Database >Access to Database>Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General.

United States Treaties
United Nations and League of Nations Treaties
Unofficial treaty sources--General
Finding other treaties

UNITED STATES TREATIES
1.  Where is your treaty published? Is it in force? Status of pending ratification, etc.
2.  Official U.S. treaty sources
3.  Unofficial U.S. treaty sources
4.  For more information about U.S. treaties

1.  WHERE IS YOUR TREATY PUBLISHED? IS IT IN FORCE?
United States Treaties in Force <www.state.gov/s/l/treaty>Treaties in Force (section I bilateral, section II multilateral) provides citations to T.I.A.S., U.S.T., and other treaty sources; names of signatories and parties; and dates of signing and entry into force. The latest paper edition of Treaties in Forces is at Reference JX236 1929c. Treaties in Force is also in HeinOnline >Treaties and Agreements Library.

•  To update Treaties in Force (new official citations, information on new treaties or the entry into force of a previously signed treaties) go to go to
Treaties Pending in the Senate (Updated as of ... )  <www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/pending/> and to
Treaty Actions <www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/c3428.htm>.

For new treaties, also check:
>HeinOnline >Treaties and Agreements Library>Search

>USTREATIES in WESTLAW

>THOMAS <www.thomas.loc.gov> Treaties

>U.S. Senate Treaties page <www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/treaties.htm>

>Congressional Index Published in looseleaf format for every session of Congress. Updated weekly. Look at the section Treaties--Nominations for treaty status in committee and Senate Treaty Report number, if a report was published.
B1 KF49 .C6

>Dept. of State Freedom of Information Act--Search Documents Collection  <www.foia.state.gov/SearchColls/CollsSearch.asp>
Choose "International Agreements" and enter a country name in the search box at the bottom of the page.

•  For information on older treaties, look in the following older sources:
> U.S. Department of State Dispatch. 9/3/1990-12/1999.
Compact Shelves JX232 A352

>Bulletin. U.S. Department of State. 1939-1989.
Compact Shelves JX232 A35
Also in HeinOnline >Treaties and Agreements Library

>Press Releases. U.S. Department of State. 10/5/1929-12/1939. Compact Shelves JX232 A32

>Treaty Information Bulletin. U.S. Department of State. Oct. 1929-June 1939.  For an electronic version, search the title in Julius.

2.  OFFICIAL U.S. TREATY SOURCES: Check the date of your treaty--the official sources have changed over time. Also note that Bluebook R.21.4.5(a)(i) does not require a cite to all of these sources, e.g., T.I.A.S. is not required if U.S.T. is available for the same treaty.

1778-1949
Statutes at Large. For 1778-1845, treaties are in volumes 7 and 8. Starting with 1846, treaties were published sessionally.  For a list of the treaties in Statutes at Large (excluding the treaties with American Indians in volumes 7 through 18), see vol. 64, pt. 3, pp. B1107-B1182.
Derenberg KF50 U5 
PDFs searchable in HeinOnline Treaties & Agreements Library
PDFs searchable by country, number and topic in LexisNexis (Federal Legal--US)

97th Congress, 1981-
Senate Treaty Documents (called Senate Executive Documents through the 95th Congress, 1980). This is the first published source for selected treaties. The Law Library has these documents in the CIS microfiche. Get the CIS microfiche number (and some full-text documents) through the LexisNexis Congressional database (Congressional Publications--Search by number). S. Treaty Documents starting with the 104th Congress (1994/95) are also in GPOAccess <www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/index.html>.
See also State Department Documents available through C.T.I.A. below.

1946-
T.I.A.S.  Publication is late by as much as ten years. T.I.A.S. continues two other series called Treaty Series and Executive Agreement Series.
Compact Shelves JX235 9A32
Dept. of State has 1996 and 1997 in PDF.
T.I.A.S. 11060- also in HeinOnline >Treaties and Agreements Library

1950-
U.S.T.  Publication is late by as much as twenty years.
Compact Shelves JX231 A34
HeinOnline >Treaties and Agreements Library

3. UNOFFICIAL U.S. TREATY SOURCES
Bluebook R. 21.4.5(c)

•  HeinOnLine >The Treaties and Agreements Library comes close to being a "one-stop shop" for U.S. treaty research. It contains PDFs of the official sources--Statutes at Large vols 7 and 8 (go to the HeinOnLine main page for volumes other than 7 and 8); U.S.T. 1950-1984; T.I.A.S. 1982-1996; and for more recent treaties not yet published in T.I.A.S. or U.S.T., there are Dept. of State documents, Senate Treaty Documents, etc. 1987- (KAV Agreements). The database also has s Bevans and other preferred unofficial sources, the Dept. of State Dispatch and Bulletin, and some classic treaty resources and excellent research guides.  Click on Search to search for treaties by country, date, treaty number, words, etc.

•  Dept. of State Freedom of Information Act--Search Documents Collection  <www.foia.state.gov/SearchColls/CollsSearch.asp>
Choose "International Agreements" and enter a country name in the search box at the bottom of the page to look for recent memoranda of understanding, protocols, etc. between the U.S. and other countries. This is a database of declassified documents.

•  >THOMAS <www.thomas.loc.gov> Treaties
     
•  CTIA. Consolidated Treaties & International Agreements. Current Document Service, United States. A print source to cite for State Dept. Documents if the Senate Treaty Document is not available.  Compact Shelves JX236 1990 U54
    
•  WESTLAW:  USTREATIES  Volumes 8-64 (1778-1949) of Statutes at Large, U.S.T., T.I.A.S., Dept. of State documents 1990-, Senate Treaty Documents 1993-.

•  LexisNexis:  USTRTY (International Law) A very large file covering 1776 to present and including Bevans, Senate Treaty documents, State Dept. slip documents, T.I.A.S., U.S.T. (except not vol. 31, part 2).

•  Bevans, Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949, a compilation published by the G.P.O. covering about the same period as the official Statutes at Large.  Compact Shelves JX236 1968 A5
    

4.  For more information about U.S. treaties

See also Kirgis, International Agreements and U.S. Law, ASIL Insight, May 1997. www.asil.org/insights/insigh10.htm

U.S. Senate Treaties page <www.senate.gov/reference/reference_index_subjects/Treaties_vrd.htm> esp., Treaties and Other International Agreements: The Role of the United States Senate: A Study.

UNITED NATIONS and LEAGUE OF NATIONS TREATIES
1. Where is your treaty published, which states are parties, is it in force, etc?
2. United Nations Treaty Series
3. League of Nations Treaty Series

1.  WHERE IS YOUR TREATY PUBLISHED, WHICH STATES ARE PARTIES, IS IT IN FORCE, etc.? Citations to U.N.T.S. or other official U.N. documents, dates of signing and entry into force, lists of signatory countries and parties, the text of declarations and reservations, and treaty status information are provided in Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General: Status as at [date]. The most up-to-date version is the online version in the United Nations Treaty Collection Database >Access to Database>Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General. The date of latest updating is shown at the top of the table of contents page; it is usually current within two days. The latest paper edition is at Reference JX1977 A2 ST LEG SER.E.

2.  UNITED NATIONS TREATY SERIES
Compact Shelves JX170 U35 (unbound issues in B2 South)

•  PDFs United Nations Treaty Collection Database
>Access to Databases>United Nations Treaty Series.
Search for treaties by title, keywords, type of agreement (bilateral, multilateral, subsequent action), date, participants, subject, popular name.

3.  LEAGUE OF NATIONS TREATY SERIES
1920-1945.  Compact Shelves JX170 L4

PDFs available through the United Nations Treaty Collection Database >Access to Databases>League of Nations Treaty Series. It will still say U.N.T.S., but if you click on Advanced Search and change Organization to LN, you will be searching in the League of Nations Treaty Series database.
Search for treaties by title, keywords, type of agreement (bilateral, multilateral, subsequent action), date, participants, subject, popular name.

UNOFFICIAL TREATY SOURCES--General  
Bluebook R. 21.4.5(c)

•  International Legal Materials:
            Print: Compact Shelves JX27 I5 A5 (unbound in B2 South)
            HeinOnLine >Law Journal Lib PDFs, 1962-previous year
            WESTLAW  "ILM" 1980-current
            LexisNexis 1962-current

•  Websites of governments and intl organizations:
            NYU Law Library International Treaties page
                  
•  Consolidated Treaty Series (Parry). Bilateral and multilateral treaties, 1648-1919. Compact Shelves JX121 P26

•  Martens Nouveau recueil général de traités: conventions et    autres transactions remarquables.... Covers 1840-1969.
Compact Shelves JX142 .M36x... Series 1, 2 and 3.

•  Treaty cited to a book:  Search library catalogs with a keyword from the name or subject of the treaty and the word "documents." Example:
South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, Aug. 6, 1985, reprinted in Documents in International Environmental Law, IIB Principles of International Environmental Law 1004-1016. (Philippe Sands et al. eds.,  Manchester, UK; New York: Manchester University Press; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press1994).

FINDING OTHER TREATIES

•  Council of Europe. European Conventions and Agreements.
Compact Shelves  NYUL KE-E3 L34 3C67 E5
The bound series is very slow, so the Library also receives the advance copies of the treaties in the European Treaty Series. Compact Shelves NYUL KE-E3 L34 3C67 E7
    
• United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights <www.ohchr.org/english/> Click on International Law.
Texts and status of human rights instruments. Links to the websites and documents of the monitoring bodies.

•  Hague Conference on Private International Law <www.hcch.net/index_en.php> Conventions.

•  New York University Law Library International Treaties Guide

•  ASIL guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: Treaties by Jill McC. Watson. www.asil.org/resource/treaty1.htm

•  Finding treaties signed by, or treaty series published by, other countries:

World Treaty Index is good for finding treaties by the name of a country, but it covers only through 1980.
Reference  JX171 R64 W6 1983

The Bluebook Table T.2 may list the national treaty publication. See also the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations.

See also Sources of State Practice in International Law. Ed. Ralph Gaebler and Maria Smolka-Day. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 2002- (loose-leaf).  Reserve   KZ118 .S68, and

National Treaty Law and Practice.... American Society of International Law.  Search this title in Julius for volumes covering various countries.

CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW and STATE PRACTICE
Article 38(1)(b) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice states:

The Court, whose function it is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply:

b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law.

Background reading on researching customary international law:

•  Public International Law in a Nutshell. Thomas Buergenthal,
Sean D. Murphy. 4th ed. St. Paul, MN : Thomson/West, 2007.
Circ  KZ3092 .B84 2007.  Chapters 2 and 13

•  Practice and Methods of International Law. Shabtai Rosenne. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications, 1984. 
Compact Shelves  JX3695 I8 R67 1984

•  Contemporary Practice of Public International Law. Ed. Ellen G. Schaffer & Randall J. Snyder. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, 1997. Chapters 1-4.
Compact Shelves JX3091 .I685 1997

•   Guide to International Legal Research. The George Washington University Law School International Law Review. LexisNexis, 2006, pp.1-26 through 1-30. Reserve KZ1234 .G85

In addition to the sources suggested below for identifying state practice,  customary law may be evidenced in
         •  treaties
         •  case law and arbitration from regional and international tribunals
         •  the resolutions, declarations and practice of the UN and other IGOs
         •  the work of the International Law Commission
See Restatement of the Law (Third), Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1987) §§ 102-103 and Comments and Reporter's Notes.

State Practice, generally:

•   Researching Customary International Law, State Practice and the Pronouncements of States Regarding International Law. Silke Sahl's excellent guide situates the concept of international custom among the other sources of international law and provides a good list of background reading and a structured list of the research materials for the U.S. and other jurisdictions.  <www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Customary_International_Law.htm> (For NYU Law Library call numbers for the sources, see below.)

•  Sources of State Practice in International Law. Ed. Ralph Gaebler and Maria Smolka-Day. Ardsley, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 2002- (loose-leaf).  Reserve   KZ118 .S68

•   National Treaty Law and Practice.... American Society of International Law.  Search this title in Julius for volumes covering various countries.

•   Yearbooks such as the British Yearbook of International Law (Compact Shelves JX21 B7 and ejournals) and the African Yearbook of International Law (Compact Shelves JX21 .A35) summarize developments for the year in the courts and legislature and report on diplomatic and government activity. They may include cases, documents and scholarly articles. To find other yearbooks, search Julius with keywords yearbook or year book, international and the truncated name of the country or region, e.g. Canad**, Asia*, South Africa*. Some English-language yearbooks of international law are searchable in HeinOnLine >Foreign & International Law Research Database>Search. Use Ctrl key to choose multiple titles.

For yearbooks of international organizations, see Yearbooks below.

•   For legislation and case law from countries other than the U.S., see Finding Foreign Law below.
    

United States sources of state practice:       

•  Restatements: Restatement of the Law (Third), Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1987).
Circ  KF395.A2 F63T3 1986
Restatement (Second) of the Law of Conflict of Laws (1971-88) Reserve   KF395.A2 C62T3 1969
Also available in WESTLAW and LexisNexis

•  Dept. of State <www.state.gov/>
For example, Issues & Press contains:
Press: Press Releases, Remarks, Testimony, etc.
A-Z Index:  International Law, Treaties, etc.
Office of Legal Advisor www.state.gov/s/l/

•  Foreign Relations of the United States ("FRUS") contains "the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity" in the form of documents from the presidential libraries, Depts of State and Defense, NSC, CIA, other agencies, and from private papers. Coverage begins with 1861. It is published with many years delay. The latest volumes include the mid-1970s.
    
Compact Shelves  JX233 A3

Searchable PDFs at:
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Digital Collection FRUS 1861-1960
(incomplete, volumes added as acquired) <digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/>

State Dept. website <www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/> Truman through Nixon (1945-1976).

HeinOnLine >Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
Searchable PDFs, Lincoln through Nixon/Ford (1861-1972).

For materials on foreign relations, commerce and navigation and other subjects that may relate to international law in the period from 1789-1838 (before FRUS began and before the Congressional Serial Set began in 1817), consult American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States....  38 volumes.
Furman  NYUL KN69 U55 A5
American State Papers through the Library of Congress
<memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsp.html>

•  The State Dept. Office of the Legal Advisor publishes the  Digests to provide the views and practice of the government in international law. The editors cite, excerpt or reprint the documents from the State department and other agencies and departments. Use the subject index and table of contents to find your topic. For recent volumes of the Digest, the State Dept. website provides the text of documents that are only excerpted and are not readily available elsewhere.

The digests are listed below in reverse chronological order. Some series are searchable in HeinOnLine
>Foreign & International Law Research Database>Search.
Use Ctrl key to choose multiple volumes of the Digest....

For updates, see the regular feature "Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to international Law" in the American Journal of International Law.

     The Digest of United States Practice in International Law.  Covers 1989-90, 1991-99, 2000-  Compact Shelves KZ21 .D54

     Cumulative Digest of United States Practice in International Law. Covers 1981-88. Compact Shelves  KZ21 R68

     Digest of United States Practice in International Law. Covers 1973-80.  Compact Shelves  JX237 D43

     Whiteman, Digest of International Law. Covers 1940-60.
Compact Shelves JX237 W55

     Hackworth,  Digest of International Law. Covers 1906-39.
Compact Shelves JX237 H3

     Moore, A Digest of International Law. Covers 1776-1906.  Compact Shelves JX237 M6

     Wharton, A Digest of the International Law of the United States, 2d ed. 1887.  JX237 W5 1887

     Digest of the Published Opinions of the Attorneys-General and of the Leading Decisions of the Federal Courts, with Reference to International Law, Treaties, and Kindred Subjects, 1877. 
    
•  U.S. Department of State Dispatch. 9/3/1990-12/1999.
Compact Shelves JX232 A352

>Bulletin. U.S. Department of State. 1939-1989.
Compact Shelves JX232 A35
Also in HeinOnline >Treaties and Agreements Library

•   United States Practice in International Law. Sean D. Murphy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002-
v. 1. 1999-2001 (also available online through Julius). v. 2. 2002-2004.  Compact Shelves  KZ4113 .M87 2002

UNITED NATIONS

Research Guides:

•  United Nations Documentation: Research Guide <www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/>
See especially, Special Topics: International Law www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specil.htm.

•  United Nations Research  NYU Law Library Research Guide 

•   Dag Hammarskjöld Library website
The UN Library is not open to the public, but researchers will find the website very helpful.  <www.un.org/Depts/dhl/>
         >UNBISNET: catalog, voting info, index to speeches      
         >UN Pulse: alerts about just-released documents
         >United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
         >ODS pdf documents, 1993-. Resolutions, 1946-.
         >United Nations Treaty Collection (PDFs) and status table
    

CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS   Bluebook R. 21.4 and 21.7.11

•  CITATION EXAMPLE:  U.N. Charter art. 2, para. 4

•  <www.un.org/aboutun/charter/>

•  The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary. 2d ed. Ed. Bruno Simma; in collaboration with Hermann Mosler ... [et al.] 2nd ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. This two-volume set contains the Charter; the I.C.J. Statute; article-by-article expert commentary with references to UN documents, cases and scholarly writings; Rules of Procedure of the GA; and a subject index. Circ Desk KZ4991 .C48 2002   

•  La Charte des Nations Unies: commentaire article par article. Sous la direction de Jean-Pierre Cot et Alain Pellet.
3. éd., mise à jour, rev. et augm. Paris: Economica, 2005. 2 v.
Reserve  KZ4991 .C688 2005

U.N. RESOLUTIONS and DECISIONS     Bluebook R.21.7.2

For PDFs of GA, SC and ECOSOC resolutions and decisions:

•  UN Documentation Centre  <www.un.org> Documents, Maps
For recent years, resolutions and decisions are loaded as separate UN documents. For earlier years, they are reproduced from the pages of the official records compilation of resolutions and decisions for the session.

•  ODS <documents.un.org> Advanced Search
For 1946-1993 (1996 for the GA), change the database to Resolutions. The resolutions and decisions are reproduced from the pages of the official records compilation of resolutions and decisions for the session.
For later resolutions and decisions, leave the database set to Documents. Later resolutions and decisions come from either the sessional compilation or separate documents, depending upon whether the compilation has been published. Click on Help for the formats of document symbols for resolutions and decisions.

•  To find the U.N. document symbol for a sessional compilation, the simplest method is to consult the Library's hardcopies:

GAOR    Compact Shelves JX1977 A41
SCOR    Compact Shelves JX1977 A52 R3
ESCOR  Compact Shelves JX1977 A2118

Recent issues may be in B2 South with unbound periodicals.

•  See below for more details.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

•  Citation example:
G.A. Res. 183, U.N. GAOR, 52d Sess., Supp. No. 49, vol. I, at 157, U.N. Doc. A/52/49 (vol. I) (1999).  See R.21.7.2(a) for variation by dates.

•  Official Records [GAOR] General Assembly Official Records: Resolutions and Decisions....  1946-date.
Resolutions and decisions are collected and printed in the 49th supplement to the GAOR for each session (sometimes it consists of two volumes). For earlier years this compilation was the last numbered supplement, not necessarily supplement 49. At the end of the supplement is a list giving the page number for each resolution and decision. The GAOR are shelved in Compact Shelves JX1977 A41, arranged by GA sessions, then by supplement numbers. Resolution volumes for the first four sessions are marked with yellow tape. Recent unbound supplements are shelved in B2 South.

•  Online
To find the Official Records Supplement Resolutions and Decisions online, first get its U.N. document symbol from this list <http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf/Link/R00517>. Then go to the U.N. ODS Official Documents System <www.documents.un.org>. Do a Simple Search for the UN document symbol, e.g., A/60/49, and look in the results list for the document that says (SUPPL).

If your resolution or decision is too recent to have been printed as a Resolutions and Decisions Official Records Supplement, use the U.N. website <www.un.org/documents/ >General Assembly, and look for it as a separate resolution.

SECURITY COUNCIL

NOTE: The Bluebook does not give an example of this Security Council Official Records source for resolutions.

•  Citation example:
S.C. Res. 1141, U.N. SCOR, 52d Year, Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council 1997, at 91, U.N. Doc. S/INF/53 (1999). 

•  Official Records [SCOR] Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council [year], 1946-. At the end of each pamphlet is a list giving the page number for each resolution and decision.
Compact Shelves JX1977 A52 R3

•  Online
To find the Official Records pamphlet Resolutions and Decisions of the Security Council online, go to the U.N. ODS Official Documents System <www.documents.un.org> Security Council, and do a Simple Search for the UN document symbol S/INF/ and look for the year that you need.

If your resolution or decision is too recent to have been printed as a Resolutions and Decisions Official Records pamphlet, use the U.N. website <www.un.org/documents/ and look for it as a separate resolution.

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

•  Citation example:
E.S.C. Res. 13, U.N. ESCOR, 1995 Sess., Supp. No. 1, at 24, U.N. Doc. E/1849/Add.1 (1950).

•  Official Records [ECSCOR] Supplement No. 1: Resolutions and Decisions. At the beginning of each pamphlet is a list giving the page number for each resolution and decision.
Compact Shelves JX1977 A2118 (unbound in B2 South)

•  Online
To find the ESCOR Supplement online, first get its U.N. document symbol from this list http://lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf/Link/R00628. Then go to the U.N. ODS Official Documents System <www.documents.un.org>. Do a Simple Search for the UN document symbol, e.g., E/2004/99, and look for the document in the list that says (SUPPL). If there is a note at the bottom of the first page of the document indicating that it is "provisional," then the final ESCOR supplement may not have been published yet, but the note may provide the document symbol for the eventual ESCOR supplement.

If your resolution or decision is too recent to have been printed as an ESCOR Supplement, use the the U.N. website <www.un.org/documents/ > ECOSOC, and look for it as a separate resolution.
    

OFFICIAL RECORDS Rules 21.7.1 and 21.1.3 through 21.7.9

NOTE: The most recent paper issues of Official Records Supplements are in Unbound Periodicals in B2 South.

The Law Library has Official Records Supplements in paper as follows:

General Assembly Compact Shelves JX1977 A41
GAOR supplements include reports from subsidiary bodies R.21.7.3, the budget, and resolutions. The supplements bear the first (lowest numbered)  document symbols for a GA session, e.g., A/52/1, A/52/2, A/52/3, etc. Examples are:
Report of the Security Council, A/60/2
Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, A/60/36
Human Rights Committee Report, A/60/40
Resolutions and Decisions, A/60/49.

For reports to the GA from a particular subsidiary body since 1946, a list of the GAOR supplement numbers and the corresponding UN document symbols is available in UN-I-QUE <lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf> (search keywords from the body name, plus the word report) and in the back of the Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly for the session (Compact Shelves JX1977 A2 ST/LIB Ser. B/A). Use these document symbols for online searching in the ODS, AccessUN and UNBISNET (see below). 

Security Council  Compact Shelves JX1977 A52 R3
SCOR quarterly supplements reprint selected documents from the SC session. S/INF/..., part of the SCOR, collects the resolutions and decisions for the year. See resolutions above. Index to Proceedings of the Security Council. Compact Shelves  JX1977 A2 ST/LIB Ser.B/S

Economic and Social Council  Compact Shelves JX1977 A2118
ESCOR supplements include reports from subsidiary bodies and resolutions, e.g., Report of the Commission on Human Rights, E/2000/23 (E/CN.4/2000/167). For reports to the ECOSOC from a particular subsidiary body since 1946, a list of the ESCOR supplement numbers and the corresponding UN document symbols is available in UN-I-QUE <lib-unique.un.org/lib/unique.nsf> (search keywords from the body name, plus the word report)  and in the back of the Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social Council for each session (Compact Shelves  JX1977 A2 ST/LIB Ser.B/E5). Use these document symbols for online searching in the ODS, AccessUN and UNBISNET (see below).

Along with the Official Records supplements, the Library has Meeting Records in paper for some earlier sessions only--same call numbers as Official Records Supplements above. The document symbols for meeting records end in .../PV... for procès verbaux (verbatim records) and .../SR.... for summary records.

The ODS  <www.documents.un.org> has Official Records and Meeting Records in PDF from 1993 to date (starting earlier for some bodies) and Resolutions from 1946 to date. The Readex microfiche collection has exact facsimiles of official records and meetings records from 1946 to 2005. The quickest way to search the ODS and the AccessUN index to the microfiche is with a U.N. document symbol, but you can also search by keywords, etc.

U.N. DOCUMENTS generally--resolutions, meeting records, letters, reports, etc. Although the Law Library does not get individual U.N. documents in paper, you have extensive access to U.N. documents without leaving the Law Library. You can make exact facsimile copies of U.N. documents from 1945-2005 (with gaps in the 1980s) for free from the library's U.N. microfiche collection, and the ODS has PDFs for 1993 to date.

See the chart below for more details. The NYU Bobst Library has a larger collection of U.N. Official Records and documents in paper.

A U.N. document symbol (letters and numbers separated by slashes and periods) is the quickest way to search online. NOTE: When reviewing a list of U.N. documents, symbols ending in ...Add., ..Corr., ...Rev., etc., may be addenda, corrections, revisions, or other documents related to your original document.

If you don't have a U.N. document symbol, you can search with keywords, title, U.N. body, date, etc. in the following:

•  U.N. ODS <www.documents.un.org> Full text documents, 1993 to date; resolutions, 1946 to date. Documents in all official languages, updated daily.

•  AccessUN Index 1946 to date. The library has the microfiche collection of the documents indexed in this database--1946 through 2005 (with gaps in the 1980s).

•  UNBISNET <unbisnet.un.org/> Bibliographic records of the U.N. library starting 1979, plus voting information and index to speeches.

• Yearbook of the United Nations, 1947-. Summarizes the activities of U.N. bodies and cites many official documents. Use the annual subject index to locate your topic.
Compact Shelves JX1977 A37 Y4

REPORTS FROM THE SECRETARY-GENERAL TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL  R.21.7.3 (c)
Recent reports are available on the U.N. Website <www.un.org/documents/repsc.htm>. You can also search for the reports in the U.N. document sources described above. To search, combine keywords, title word "report," and the document symbol S/[year]/, e.g. S/2001/.

PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCES  R.21.7.3(b)
Other reports and proceedings may or may not be published in the Official Records or as separate U.N. documents. In addition, major bodies may have their own records, e.g., summary records of the meetings of the International Law Commission appear in its Yearbook. Another strategy is to run an author, title or subject search in JULIUS, Bobcat or another library catalog using the organization or conference name to see if the library owns the reports or proceedings as separate publications.

INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION  U.N. document symbol  A/CN.4/--

•  International Law Commission Research database.
<http://www.un.org/law/ilc/> Click on Research. Very useful.

•  Yearbook of the International Law Commission.
Compact Shelves JX1977 A2 A/CN.4/Ser.A (unbound in B2 South)
Vol. I: Summary records of ILC meetings.
Vol. II: Report of the ILC session to the GA, which includes reports of special rapporteurs and other documents from the session, including texts and drafts of conventions and model laws.  Also issued as Supplement No. 10 to the GAOR--Compact Shelves JX1977 A41 (unbound in B2 South).

•  Analytical Guide to the Work of the International Law Commission, 1949-1997. New York: United Nations, 1998.
Reserve  KZ1287.U55 A53x 1998
    

HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL U.N. document symbol A/HRC-
Human Rights Council homepage with documents, resolutions, agenda, rules, etc. <www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/>

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE U.N. document symbol  CCPR/- and  A/C.3/-

"Views" and inadmissibility decisions of the HR Committee in communications submitted under art. 5, para. 4, of the Optional Protocol

•  Example:  Communication No. 616/1995, Hamilton v. Jamaica (views adopted 23 July 1999, 66th Sess.), Report of the Human Rights Committee to the GA, GAOR, 54th Sess., Supp. No. 40, at 73, U.N. Doc. No. A/54/40 (2000).

•  Official paper source: U.N. Doc. No. A/54/40 at the end of the citation above refers to Supplement No. 40 to the GAOR, Compact Shelves JX1977 A41 (unbound in B2 South). It contains volume II of the annual Report of the Human Rights Committee to the GA, which prints the Views of the Committee on communications under the Optional Protocol.

This official version is usually published very late. Look for recent views in journals such as International Human Rights Reports, K3236.3 .I58x, and on the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body Database <www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf> Citations to these individual views (before they are collected in the annual Report) might bear the U.N. document symbol CCPR/.... These separate copies are not necessarily available in libraries in paper, but try the Treaty Body Database.
    

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS
UN Document symbol E/CN.4/

•  Official paper source
Cite to the Report of the Commission on Human Rights to the ECOSOC, which is a supplement to the ECOSOC Official Records. Compact Shelves JX1977 A2118 (unbound in B2 South)

•  Example:
U.N. Comm'n on Human Rights, Res. 40 (XXXVII), U.N. ESCOR, Supp. No.5, at 243, U.N. Doc. No. A/1981/25 (1981).
    

EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (formerly Commission)

European Court of Human Rights. Reports of Judgments and Decisions = Recueil des arrêts et décisions, 1996-
B2 North KJC5132.A52 E88 (unbound in B2 South)

European Court of Human Rights <www.echr.coe.int/echr>

Publications of the European Court of Human Rights. Series A, Judgments and Decisions = Publications de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme. Serie A, Arrêts et décisions, -1996.
Compact  NYUL KE-E3 H76 5E76 P7

Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European
Commission and European Court of Human Rights = Annuaire de la
Convention européenne des droits de l'homme, Commission et Court
européennes des droits de l'homme, 1960-.
Compact  NYUL KE-E3 H76 1Y32

European Commission of Human Rights. Collection of Decisions = Recueil de décisions, 1960-1974.
Compact NYUL KE-E3 H76 2E76 C6

European Commission of Human Rights. Decisions and Reports = Décisions et rapports, 1975-1999
Compact NYUL KE-E3 H76 2E76 D3

European Human Rights Reports, 1979-.
Compact NYUL KE-E3 H76 5E87

OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS SOURCES

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
<www.cidh.org>
Annual Report - Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. B2 North  KDZ574.A15 I56x  and CDROM at Circ

Inter-American Court of Human Rights <www.corteidh.or.cr/index.cfm?&CFID=54649&CFTOKEN=51614917>
For library holdings in print, search in the Julius catalog for author: Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

For an index of the Commission and Court cases by topic and articles of the Declaration and the Convention, see Binder 6, Appendix 1, of Human Rights: The Inter-American System. Ed. Thomas Buergenthal and Robert E. Norris. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1982-. Updating stopped in 1993.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library <www1.umn.edu/humanrts/>

NYU Law Library Human Rights page

GENEVA CONVENTIONS and COMMENTARIES
The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949: Commentary. Published
under the general editorship of Jean S. Pictet.  v. 1. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field.  v. 2. Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick, and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea. v. 3. Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. v. 4. Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Circ  KZ6462 .G4513 (The library has several printings.)

Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.
Circ and Compact  JX5136 C572 1987

International Humanitarian Law: Treaties & Documents. This International Committee of the Red Cross website provides the Conventions, the Additional Protocols and the Commentaries. <www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/CONVPRES?OpenView>
 

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE   Bluebook R. 21.5.1

•  CITATION EXAMPLE:  Case Concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals (Mex. v. U.S.), 2004 I.C.J. 12 (March 31).

•  OFFICIAL REPORTS AND PLEADINGS
Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders. Recueil des arrêts, avis consultatifs et ordonnances. In English and French, 1947/48-. Compact Shelves JX1971 6A244 (unbound in B2 South).

To find out if a judgment has been published, look at the list in the latest Yearbook of the I.C.J., which lists all the pleadings, judgments, advisory opinions, and orders of the P.C.I.J. and the I.C.J. that have been published to date. The Hague : I.C.J., 1946/47-. Compact Shelves  JX1971 6A25 (unbound in B2 South). For judgments not listed in the Yearbook, try the unbound issues of the Reports or the online and unofficial sources below.

Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents. Mémoires, plaidoiries et documents.  I.C.J. pleadings, 1947-.
Compact Shelves JX1971 6 A243 (unbound in B2 South)

•  ONLINE and UNOFFICIAL SOURCES FOR I.C.J. CASES
Bluebook R. 21.5.1(h) Use these for recent materials not yet published and also to find cites to I.C.J. cases.

International Legal Materials:
        Print: Compact Shelves JX27 I5 A5 (unbound in B2 South)
        HeinOnLine >Law Journal Lib PDFs, 1962-previous year
        WESTLAW  "ILM" 1980-current
        LexisNexis 1962-current

International Court of Justice website  <www.icj-cij.org>
Judgments, advisory opinions, orders, pleadings, proceedings, and other documents for ICJ and PCIJ cases. For recent cases, material may be in text and for older cases in PDF. Statute of the Court, Rules and Practice Directions, current information about the jurisdiction of the Court, and press releases. The website is available in French and English, the official language of the Court.
    

•  PERMANENT COURT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

International Court of Justice website  <www.icj-cij.org>

Searchable PDF volumes in HeinOnLine
>Foreign & International Law Research Database>Search
Use Ctrl key to choose multiple volumes of P.C.I.J.

Compact Shelves JX1971 5A6...
Series A: Judgments
Series B: Advisory Opinions
Series A/B: Judgments, Orders and Advisory Opinions
Series C: Acts and Documents Related to Judgments and Advisory Opinions
Series D: Acts and Documents Related to the Organization of the Court (Statute, Rules, etc.)
Series E: Yearbook of the Court
Series F: Bibliography and Indexes
    

•  FINDING P.C.I.J. and I.C.J. CASES by topic, etc.

WESTLAW: INT-ICJ Search the Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders from 1947-.

The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A
Commentary. Andreas Zimmermann. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Reserve KZ6275 .S738 2006

Rosenne, Shabtai. The Law and Practice of the International Court, 1920-2005. 4th ed.  Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006. Reserve KZ6275 .R67 2006

World Court Digest. 1986-2000.  <www.mpil.de/ww/en/pub/research/details/publications/institute/wcd.cfm>
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The Law Library also has the volumes in Compact Shelves JX68 .W57 1993.
This is a systematic arrangement of the views on international law expressed in the I.C.J. judgments, advisory opinions and orders. It covers 1986-2000.

For earlier years, including the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Permanent Court of International Justice, use the Digest of the Decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice (Fontis iuris gentium: Series A, Section I).
Compact Shelves JX64 F6 Ser. A, Section I, volumes 1, 3 and 4 (PCIJ); 2 (PCA); and 5, 6.1, 6.2, and 7 (ICJ).

Repertoire de la jurisprudence de la cour internationale de justice (1947-1992) = Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947-1992). Ed. Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo. Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff Publishers; Norwell, MA, U.S.A.: Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
Reserve JX1971.6 .Z5 1995

The World Court Reference Guide: Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders of the Permanent Court of International Justice and the International Court of Justice (1922-2000). Compiled and edited by Bimal N. Patel; with an introduction by Shabtai Rosenne. The Hague; New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002. Indexed by articles of the League of Nations Covenant, Rules and Statutes of the PCIJ and the IJC, UN Charter, PCIJ and ICJ cases and advisory opinions, arbitral awards, and treaties. Reference  KZ200.5 .W67 2002
    

OTHER INTERNATIONAL LAW CASES   R. 21.5

•  See also Intl Court of Justice and Intl criminal tribunals

•  For legislation and case law from countries other than the U.S., see Finding Foreign Law below.

•  International Law Reports (I.L.R.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1950-. Reprints cases involving international law from national, regional and international courts, with cites to official reporters if applicable. Cumulative index by treaty articles, countries, subjects, international organizations, and tribunals and courts. Also, Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases, 1919/22-1949.
Compact Shelves JX68 I56.

•  Landmark Cases in Public International Law. Ed. Eric Heinze and Malgosia Fitzmaurice. London; Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1998.  Reserve  KZ1242.5 .F58 1998

•  International Law in Domestic Courts. Oxford University Press. Legal scholars monitor the national courts in over 65 jurisdictions and select cases that are relevant to the identification and interpretation of the rules of international law or the reception and application of international law by states in their national legal orders. Each case is presented with editorial commentary. The cases go back to 2000, and are in the original language, with key portions translated into English for non-English language opinions. Search using a keyword thesaurus, topic ("key category"), free text, party name, date, and jurisdiction. Browse across jurisdictions or subjects.

•  International Judicial Monitor  Electronic newsletter of the American Society of International Law and the International Judicial Academy. Sign up for notices of new arbitration awards and international law cases. <www.judicialmonitor.org/current/>

•  The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 2001-.
In addition to publishing short articles, notes and comments on international law, these volumes take quotes and summaries of the principles and facts contained in new cases and key them to a topical outline. Annual index by treaty articles, countries, subjects, international organizations, and tribunals and courts.
Compact Shelves KZ21 .G46

•  American International Law Cases. Various series covering 1783-.  Compact Shelves JX238 A2 A63...

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS

•  International Criminal Court. <www.icc-cpi.int/home.html>

The Annotated Digest of the International Criminal Court (ICC). 2004-2006. Ed. Cyril Laucci. Leiden: Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. ON ORDER.

•  The UN International Criminal Tribunals: The Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. William A. Schabas.
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.  Reserve KZ1190 .S34 2006

•  International Tribunal for Rwanda  <http://69.94.11.53/>

Basic Documents and Case Law [electronic resource] = Textes fondamentaux et jurisprudence, 1995-
CDROM at Circ  KZ1201.A12 B37

Tribunal penal international pour le Rwanda: recueil des
ordonnances, décisions et arrêts = International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda: Reports of Orders, Decisions and Judgements, 2000-
Compact Shelves KZ1201.A2 I57

ICTR cases are searchable in WESTLAW INT-ICTR.

•  International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
<www.un.org/icty/index.html>

Judicial Reports = Recueils judiciaires,1999-
K5301.A47 J83

ICTY cases are searchable in WESTLAW INT-ICTY.

Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. M. Cherif Bassiouni, with the collaboration of Peter Manikas. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1996.
Reserve  KZ1203 .B37x 1996

• Global War Crimes Collection (Nijmegen, the Netherlands : Global Law Association ; Holmes Beach, Fla. : Gaunt, c1997-) has trial transcripts, some of the judgments and other case materials. The Law Library has the volumes published from 1997-2005.
Compact Shelves KZ1190 .G56x

• The War Crimes Research Office of the Washington College of Law, American University, compiles summaries of the judgments.
ICTY Judgment Summaries <www.wcl.american.edu/warcrimes/icty_judgements.cfm>
ICTR Judgment Summaries <www.wcl.american.edu/warcrimes/ictr_judgements.cfm>

•  To follow recent judgments and activity of the International Criminal Court and the tribunals for Iraq, Rwanda, and others, sign up for the War Crimes Prosecution Watch,<www.publicinternationallaw.org/warcrimeswatch/index.html> a bi-weekly e-newsletter that compiles official documents and articles from major news sources. Send an email to warcrimeswatch@pilpg.org with “subscribe” in the subject line. Prepared by International Justice Practice of the Public International Law & Policy Group and the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

YEARBOOKS

•  Yearbook of the United Nations, 1947-
Compact Shelves JX1977 A37 Y4

•   United Nations Juridical Yearbook, 1962-.
Compact Shelves  JX1977 A2 ST/LEG/ Ser.C

•   Yearbook of the International Law Commission.
Compact Shelves JX1977 A2 A/CN.4/Ser.A (unbound in B2 South)
Vol. I: Summary records of ILC meetings.
Vol. II: Report of the ILC session to the GA, which includes reports of special rapporteurs and other documents from the session, including texts and drafts of conventions and model laws.  Also issued as Supplement No. 10 to the GAOR--Compact Shelves JX1977 A41 (unbound in B2 South).

•   A few of these yearbooks are searchable in HeinOnLine >Foreign & International Law Research Database>Search. Use Ctrl key to choose multiple titles.

•   For yearbooks of various nations, see State practice above.
    

ARBITRATION and the
CISG--UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON CONTRACTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL SALE OF GOODS

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law <www.asil.org/resource/home.htm> Three essential research guides:

International Commercial Arbitration. Gloria Miccilo. Describes the organizations and systems of arbitration and their websites and documentation. Includes a list of national arbitration
International Economic Law. Jean M. Wenger.
Private International Law. Louise Tsang. Covers the CISG and international arbitration.

CISG, UNCITRAL

• Kommentar zum einheitlichen UN-Kaufrecht, CISG. English Edition.
Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of
Goods (CISG). Eds. Peter Schlectriem, Ingeborg Schwenzer. 2nd (English) ed. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Reserve  K1028.3198.A3 K66 2005
NOTE:  The 2d English edition does not include specific references to German law. Use also the German edition below.

•  Kommentar zum Einheitlichen UN-Kaufrecht : das Ubereinkommen der
Vereinten Nationen uber Vertrage uber den internationalen Warenkauf: CISG. bearbeitet von Klaus Bacher ... [et al.]; herausgegeben von Peter Schlechtriem und Ingeborg Schwenzer. Ed. 4., vollig neubearb. Aufl. Munchen: Beck, 2004.
Reserve  K1028.3198 .K66 2004

• Pace Law School CISG Database <www.cisg.law.pace.edu/>
Annotated text of the CISG: article-by-article text with links to legislative history, case annotations, the Secretariat commentary, and bibliography.
Cases on the CISG: Use your browser's Find to locate your CISG article in the Schedule of cases by Country, or search using the Search Form for cases of interest (full text, title, date, jurisdiction, tribunal, judges, case name, articles, case codes from the UNCITRAL outline of the CISG).
Scholarly materials: extensive searchable bibliography.
Pace Academic Opportunities: Arbitration Moot. Winning memoranda from previous Annual William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competitions are posted on this page.

• The Advisory Council of the CISG, whose members are scholars not representing any government, was established as a private initiative in 2001 to address CISG issues raised by international organizations, tribunals, professional associations, or on its own initiative. To date, it has issued six opinions. For a description of the CISG-AC and links to the first six opinions, see Mistelis, "CISG-AC Publishes First Opinions," http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cisg/CISG-AC.html (viewed May 24, 2007).

• UNILEX on CISG & UNIDROIT Principles: International Case Law & Bibliography <www.unilex.info> Text, status, reservations. Cases by date, country, tribunal (the link says  "arbitral award"), and article/topic. Bibliography by author, article and topic.

• CLOUT:  Case Law on UNCITRAL Texts <www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/case_law.html>
Covers court decisions and arbitral awards relating to the CISG, the 1985 UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration, and other UNCITRAL conventions, model laws and texts. There are finding tool for the CLOUT Abstracts under "Thesauri" on the CLOUT page. Each Abstract after number 30 has its own own index. The CISG Digest is arranged by CISG article numbers. The Digest and the Abstracts provide citations (and some links) to the full texts of the cases and awards, as available.

• The Draft UNCITRAL Digest and Beyond: Cases, Analysis and
Unresolved Issues in the U.N. Sales Convention: Papers of the
Pittsburgh Conference Organized by the Center of International
Legal Education (CILE). Ed. Franco Ferrari, Harry Flechtner, Ronald A. Brand. London: Thomson Sweet & Maxwell; Munchen: Sellier. European
Law Publishers, 2004.  B1  K1028.3198 .D73 2004

• Guide to the International Sale of Goods Convention. Edited by William A. Hancock. Chesterfield, OH: Business Laws, Inc., 1986-2005. Thomson/West, 2007-. 2 vols and CDROM.
Reserve K1028.3198 G85 1986

• Model Law Decisions: Cases Applying the UNCITRAL Model Law on
International Commercial Arbitration (1985-2001). Henri C. Alvarez, Neil Kaplan, David W. Rivkin. The Hague ; New York: Kluwer Law International, 2003. B1 K2400 .A95 2003

• Hong Kong and China Arbitration: Cases and Materials. Neil Kaplan, Jill Spruce, Michael J. Moser. Hong Kong: Butterworths; Salem, N.H.:  Butterworth Legal Publishers, 1994. Circ KNC500 .K37x 1994

ICC awards:
The ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin. vol. 4 (1993)-
B1 K2400 .A15 I28x

Collection of ICC Arbitral Awards.  Analytical index in front of volume.
1974-1985  Reserve K2400 .A495 C65 1990
1986-1990  Reserve K2400 .A495 C65 1993
1991-1995  Reserve K2400 .A495 C65x 1997
1996-2000  Reserve K2400 .A54 2003

Collection of Procedural Decisions in ICC Arbitration 1993-1996.
Reserve K2400 .!495 H37 1997

WESTLAW ICC-AWARDS has abstracts and commentary from 1975 to present. ICC-ALL adds the model clauses and rules.

ICSID

• ICSID Reports: Reports of Cases Decided Under the Convention on
the Settlement of Investment Disputes Between States and Nationals of Other States, 1965. Cambridge: Grotius Publications, 1993-
B1 K3829.52 .I27

• ICSID Cases <www.worldbank.org/icsid/cases/cases.htm>

• ICSID Cases <www.worldbank.org/icsid/cases/cases.htm>

Other sources:

• Reports of International Arbitral Awards = Recueil des sentences
arbitrales. [Lake Success?, N.Y.]: United Nations, [1948-
Compact Shelves  JX1991 A25
Searchable in HeinOnLine >Foreign & International Law Research Database>Search Rep. Intl Arb. Awards.

• Repertoire de la jurisprudence arbitrale internationale =
Repertory of International Arbitral Jurisprudence. Vincent Coussirat-Coustere and Pierre Michel Eisemann. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1989-1991. Covers arbitrations between states, between international organizations and states and between state companies and private persons from 1794 through 1988.
Reserve JX1937 R46 1989

• Survey of International Arbitrations, 1794-1989. 3d updated ed. Ed. A.M. Stuyt. Dordrecht; Boston: M. Nijhoff Publishers; Norwell, MA, USA:
Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Academic Publishers,1990.
Reserve JX1937 S85 1990

 • World Arbitration & Mediation Review. Huntington, NY: JurisNet, LLC, 2007-

• Yearbook, Commercial Arbitration. Deventer: Kluwer, 1976- .

• There are numerous commentaries, books and articles in English and other languages on the CISG, arbitration conventions and model laws. For example, search Julius and other library catalogs for subject [e.g., name of convention] and then limit by title word commentary, kommentar, or commentaire, etc., or do a keyword search, e.g., commentary cisg.

Also search Julius and other library catalogs using keywords, or subject headings such as:
Arbitration
Arbitration international
Arbitration and award international
Arbitration and award international cases
Conflict of laws arbitration and award
Contracts international law
Dispute resolution (law) international aspects
Export sales contracts
United Nations convention on contracts for the international sale of goods (or other conventions)

• World Trade and Arbitration Materials covers the ICC and other arbitral tribunals. Bound Periodicals K27 .O78. To search it online, use Journal Titles from the Law Library home page, type in World Trade and Arbitration Materials, and select one of the electronic options.

• Other journals that cover arbitration awards include:
Yearbook Commercial Arbitration  B1 K2400 .A53 Y4
Journal du droit international  Bound Periodicals K10 .O38x

• To find law review articles (in addition to WESTLAW and LexisNexis)
       > use the Article Finders search box on the Julius Online Catalog
       > Index to Legal Periodicals
       > Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
       > HeinOnline (Search, plus PDFs)

• To find a list of journals in the law library on international arbitration, do a keyword search in Julius for international arbitration and then modify the results list by material type serials. Also do subject searches for arbitration and award international and for arbitration international, each time limiting  the results lists by material type serials.

• WESTLAW ICA-ALL contains cases, legislation, rules, model laws, guidelines, treaties, major books, journals and law reviews from countries and institutions around the world. For a list of specific titles, check the WESTLAW Directory under International law>Multi-national>Practice area>Arbitration.

• Arbitration Law Online  Use boolean operators in all caps. The library also has some of these in print.

• Kluwer Arbitration <www.kluwerarbitration.com/arbitration/arb/default.asp>
Find documents of the major arbitration organizations and systems, legislation, Case Law, Commentary, list of BITs (no texts). The Law Library does NOT have a subscription to the full-text documents, but you can use the search engine for free (click on Search on the top right side of the screen). Use Organization to limit to to a particular tribunal or system.

• According to its website, the Permanent Court of Arbitration http://www.pca-cpa.org administers arbitration, conciliation and fact-finding, sponsors international commercial arbitration, and offers hearing facilities and other administrative services to ad hoc tribunals and tribunals operating under other institutions. For example, documents from a recent Law of the Sea Convention dispute are archived on the PCA website.

• Commercial Arbitration: An International Bibliography. Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University. 2nd ed Ed. Vratislav Pechota, Hans Smit. Yonkers, NY: Juris Publishing; London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1998- Reserve  K2400 .C737x

• ICSID Bibliography. The World Bank Group. <www.worldbank.org/icsid/pubs/pubs.htm>

• Transnational Law Database <tldb.uni-koeln.de/static/navigator.shtml>
Searchable bibliography on transnational commercial law.

• Private Dispute Resolution in International Business: Negotiation, Mediation, Arbitration. Klaus Peter Berger. The Hague: Kluwer Law International; Frederick, Md.: dist. in North, Central and South America by Aspen; Biggleswade, UK: dist. elsewhere by Turpin Distribution Services, 2006. 2 v. B1 and DVD-ROM at Circ. K2400 .B47 2006

News and Current Developments in International Arbitration

• InterArbitration.Net <www.interarbitration.net/index.asp> Global Resources for International Arbitration. Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. News, institutional and industry rules. Registration is required, but free.

• UNCITRAL links for major arbitration associations and tribunals.
<www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/uncitral_texts/arbitration_online.html>
Look for News sections and lists of pending arbitrations.

• WESTLAW has lists of News, Business and Current Awareness sources, and Journals and Law Reviews on arbitration. The path is: Directory>International and Worldwide>Multinational>International Practice Areas>Arbitration.

• LexisNexis has International Arbitration: Mealey's Litigation Report. The path is Legal>Area of Law>By Topic>Alternative Dispute Resolution>Search News>Legal News. The library does not have access to the full text of the Mealey's Report.

FINDING FOREIGN LAW

• NYU Law Library Guide to Foreign and International Databases
>Foreign Databases-Collections
>Foreign Databases by Jurisdiction

• Finding Foreign (non-U.S.) Law...In English, If Possible. Mirela Roznovschi, New York University Law Library.

• Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law. Mary Rumsey. University of Minnesota Law Library.  <www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Foreign_Law_Research.htm>

• Finding English Cases, Statutes and Secondary Sources. Mirela Roznovschi, New York University Law Library. 

• A Guide to the UK Legal System. Sarah Carter, University of Kent at Canterbury. <www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/United_Kingdom.htm>
 
 
 
  
This page was updated November 27, 2007

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