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Public International LawLibrary Search StrategiesDennis Warren
Primary Sources
United Nations Documents Treaties International Court of Justice decisions
UN Documents
A/RES/52/91 E/CN.4/1992/26 A/55/1
Report of the UN Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights 16.1.92 (E/CN.4/1992/26).
Report of the UN Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights 16.1.92 (E/CN.4/1992/26).
E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/38/Rev.2
Economic and Social Council
Commission on Human Rights
Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Year
Document no. 38, revision no. 2
Treaties - Convention on the Rights of the Child, opened for signature 20 November 1989, 1577 UNTS 3 (entered into force 2 September 1990). United Nations Treaty Series
AustLII
Primary Sources
United Nations Documents Treaties International Court of Justice decisions
PCIJ: Publications of the Permanent Court of International Justice (1922-1946)
ICJ
Secondary Sources
Journal articles Books Other Sources
Newspaper articles Encyclopaedias Yearbooks
Journal Indexes
Index to Legal Periodicals Legal Resource Index
AGIS APAIS
Google Scholar
Journal Indexes – 2 step process Step 1: Search
Step 2: Check catalogue to see IF the library has that journal.
Lexis.com v/s Westlaw
Newspaper articles
Factiva
Coverage
AGIS and APAIS
Lexis.com: US & CanadaLegal Journals IndexLexis.com: UK
Index to Legal Periodicals
AGIS, APAIS
Enter two words -> search for phrase Need connectors between search terms
Example: International law and sovereignty
Truncation character is *
Finding a specific article/author in Lexis.com: title(new players on the international stage) author(spiro)
Advanced search techniques in Lexis.com criminal responsibility w/5 state!
Truncation character is !
Practice question: How would you find this article on Lexis.com?
Shabtai Rosenne, State Responsibility and International Crimes: Further Reflections on Article 19 of the Draft Articles on State Responsibility, 30 N.Y.U. J. INT'L L. & POL. 145 (1998)
One of the best search strategies Reformulating a query based on documents
identified as relevant
Example: Find a key paper and look at how it has been indexed…then use those terms as search terms
Google v/s Library Databases
http://scholar.google.com/
Library databases
state responsibility and internationally wrongful acts
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