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