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Flexing Your International Legal Research Muscle! By Lyonette “Lyo” Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library llou@midway. uchicago. edu (for the Chicago Journal of International Law, Sept. 4, 2001)

Presenting… l The Best of the Web for Foreign and International Legal Research

Best of the Web, Part I: General F/IL Pages l Our U of C Law Library web page l ASIL’s ERG l Harvard, NYU l LLRX. com l Cornell’s LII

Best of the Web, Part II: Specialized Resources l Yale’s Avalon Project l IGO websites (UN, etc. ) l NGOs/Assocs. l Gov’t Agencies l Research Centers/Think Tanks

The Avalon Project’s Major Collections

United Nations Documentation Centre

Access. UN

EUR-Lex: European Union Law

EU Cases via WESTLAW (see also EHHR)

EU Legislation: Directives, Regulations, Decisions, Treaties

Standard Weights (E-Tools) l l l Internet search engines (such as Google) Online catalogues (World. Cat is great!) Full-text journal article databases and indexes (WESTLAW’s TP-ALL, LEXIS, JSTOR, Pro. Quest; Legal. Trac, IFLP, PAIS, PSA, etc. ) News sources (LEXIS, WESTLAW, etc. ) Gateways/Portals/Meta-Pages (Find. Law, SOSIG, BUBL, Yahoo!, Hieros Gamos, JURIST) Directories, listservs, & other “people” sources

Congressional Masterfile (via Congressional Universe)

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)

CSA’s Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Treaties United Nations’ Treaty l Yale’s Avalon Project Collection l Fletcher’s l Aust. LII/DFAT’s Multilaterals Project Treaties Library l Gov’t Agencies, IGOs, l U. S. Treaties via NGOs, etc. LX/WL l

United Nations Treaty Collection (has weekly treaty status updates via Multilateral Treaties Deposited)

Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)

Lexis. Nexis

International Legal Materials (I. L. M. ) via Lexis. Nexis

Finding the Citation to the “New York Convention” via TP-ALL

Treaties (Cont’d) U. S. l Marci Hoffman’s Guide l Other l Stefanie Weigman’s Guide l

Finding Foreign Law Online Generally, and in Translation l NYU l Foreign Primary Law on the Web l GLIN l Finding Global l Harvard Foreign Law Online When Going

Finding Foreign Law/in Translation (Cont’d) l Check research guides l Check OPACs l Check indexes l Contact embassies l Use listservs l *Reynolds & Flores

Personal Trainers (“People” Contacts for Research Help) Gov’t agencies, Organizations, etc. Your Friendly U of C Librarians! Lawyers Professors

But sometimes you have to sweat it out with hardcopy… Check for call numbers in the online catalog l Walk to the Reserve Reading Room, the Reference Area, and most of the time, the 6 th Floor l Pull out the books and check them out for answers l And you’ll become very familiar with… l

Standard Weights (Books) l l l Reynolds & Flores World Almanac CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s Int’l Law Digest World Treaty Index l Encyclopedia of Public International Law l International Legal Materials (ILM) l

U. S. Treaties in Force (as of January 1, 2000)

International Legal Materials (I. L. M. )

FIN

We’re done! See y’all at the Ref desk!