making the connection in the caribbean… to the rest of the world
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Making the
Connection in the
Caribbean… to
the Rest of the
World
Making the Connection in the Making the Connection in the Caribbean…to the Rest of the WorldCaribbean…to the Rest of the World
Lyonette Louis-JacquesUniversity of Chicago Law Library
[email protected], San Juan, Puerto Rico,
June 4, 2003
How to Make the ConnectionHow to Make the ConnectionWebsites Databases
Reference Tools People Sources
Criteria for Deciding What to Criteria for Deciding What to Connect to (or Whom!)Connect to (or Whom!)
Trustworthy? Well-organized? Useful content? Has or
knows stuff you need? Convenient? Known/familiar? Updated regularly? Annotated? Evaluated? Aesthetically pleasing?
Websites: Start with Your Websites: Start with Your Own or Make Your OwnOwn or Make Your Own
You know where things are in it
You know what’s in it (who’s on your team)
You know what its strengths are or what the game plan is
You can trust it
Lyo’s Personal Page for International Legal Research
Bill Schwesig’s D’Angelo Law Library International Page
University of the West Indies Law Library
UWI’s CariLaw (Caribbean Law Project)
UWI’s QUICKLAW Subscription
UWI’s Legal Resources Links Page
Connect to the Best Information: Connect to the Best Information: Go Straight to the Source Go Straight to the Source
Remember that Agencies Are on Your Team Remember that Agencies Are on Your Team (Domestic, Foreign, and International)(Domestic, Foreign, and International)
UK & U.S. United Nations Other Inter-Governmental
Organizations (IGOs) Regional Organizations Non-Governmental
Organizations (NGOs) Foreign Governments
Connect to Your Local Team Connect to Your Local Team (Local Government Agencies)(Local Government Agencies)
And Don’t Forget Your And Don’t Forget Your Foreign Team!Foreign Team!
Precisa (Mexican government on the Net)
Legifrance (French laws)
HMSO (UK Legislation Page)
THOMAS (Access to U.S. bills and laws)
http://www.loc.gov/law/glin/
LC’s Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
U.S. Dep’t of State: Country Reports, Trade, Commerce, and International Law
Canada’s DFAIT/AECI
Connect to IGO Websites: Connect to IGO Websites: They’ve Got Everything; They’ve Got Everything;
They’re the Best!They’re the Best!
United Nations Treaty Collection
Really Current Status of Multilateral Treaties!
United Nations Documentation Centre
OAS’ Legal Information Search Page
OAS’ Foreign Trade Information System (SICE)
World Bank’s Law and Justice Page
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
EUR-Lex: European Union Law Webpage
The Universe of Legal Information Is in The Universe of Legal Information Is in the Caribbean Right At Your Fingertips!the Caribbean Right At Your Fingertips!
(Miss Universe participants at Trinidad and Tobago)
If You’re Not Sure Where to If You’re Not Sure Where to Begin…Begin…
Check to see what’s in your own library first
Think globally, act locally…first
Presenting…Presenting…
Major Websites for Foreign and
International Legal Research
Cornell’s Legal Information Cornell’s Legal Information Institute: International Law in a Institute: International Law in a
NutshellNutshell Law about…(by topic/subject)
Foreign Relations Law of the U.S.International LawInternational TradeLaw by source or jurisdictionRecommended readings!
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII)
LLRX.com (UK law guides and more)
LLRX.com’s Foreign Law Research Guides
LawLinks: Legal Information on the Internet
BAILII (British and Irish Legal Information Institute)
Inner Temple Library’s AccessToLaw Page
eagle-i (e-access to global legal information)
TreatiesTreaties
U.S. Marci Hoffman’s Guid
e
Other Stefanie Weigman’s
Guide
ASIL’s E-Resource Guide for International Legal ASIL’s E-Resource Guide for International Legal Researchers (and “Joe Public”)Researchers (and “Joe Public”)
Direct links to treaty texts
Human Rights International
Economic Law Treaties International
Commercial Arbitration, and more!
ASIL’ Guide to IL Research on the Net
NYU: Focus on Foreign Law NYU: Focus on Foreign Law Databases, and More!Databases, and More!
Annotated links to databases of primary law
Evaluated, selected by Foreign Law Librarian
Updated frequently On target contents Codes, legislation,
treaties, constitutions
New York University’s FCIL Research Page
Harvard’s Research Guides
National Laws By Subject (Harvard)
Australian Treaties Library (Multilaterals from 1856)
The Avalon Project’s Major Collections
Online DatabasesOnline Databases
LexisNexis Especially for Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest, Matthew-Bender treatises, foreign law
CariLaw QUICKLAW
WESTLAW Especially for international tribunal decisions, UK law journals, Sweet & Maxwell publications, & int’l law journals
Online Public Access Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs)Catalogs (OPACs)
Union catalogsFind foreign lawFind treatiesVerify informationTables of contentsBrowse call #sLinks to e-articles
Standard Tools (Books)Standard Tools (Books)
Reynolds & Flores PIL Nutshell CIA World Factbook Treaty indexes (TIF) Martindale-Hubbell’s
Law Digest
The Bluebook Encyclopedia of
Public International Law
International Legal Materials (ILM)
Reynolds & Flores
Standard Tools (Cont’d)Standard Tools (Cont’d)
Restatement of the Law, The Foreign Relations of the United States
Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law
International Law: Selected Documents Yearbook of the United Nations Matthew-Bender and Sweet & Maxwell Legal research guides
How to Stay Connected How to Stay Connected
Read the basic international legal research guides Read international news sources (see Harvard’s page
and the ASIL ERG (so you’re prepared for requests for hot documents in the news)
Monitor listservs such as INT-LAW and EURO-LEX (where you can also ask for help)
Attend conferences (see the IJLI “International Calendar” for dates) and get to know the foreign and international law specialists. Network!
Bookmark & try new links right away!
People Sources (Specialists in People Sources (Specialists in FCIL Research)FCIL Research)
Foreign Law Librarians
ProfessorsDocumentalists/IGO Librarians
Lawyers
Libraries with Strong FCIL Libraries with Strong FCIL Collections in the Caribbean and Collections in the Caribbean and
BeyondBeyondUniversity of the West Indies (UWI)
Faculty of Law Library (Barbados)University of Puerto Rico Law LibraryU.S. libraries (Chicago, Columbia, Harvard,
Berkeley, Tarlton (University of Texas at Austin), Los Angeles County Law Library, etc.)
UK libraries (IALS, e.g.)
International Labor Organization: International Labor Organization: Caribbean Information ServicesCaribbean Information Services
Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL)
The Archives of the INT-LAW E-Mail List
How to Subscribe to INT-LAWHow to Subscribe to INT-LAW
Send an e-mail message to:
With only the following text in the body:
subscribe int-law
LIS-LAW (UK Law Librarians List)
How to subscribe to LIS-LAWHow to subscribe to LIS-LAW
Subscribe to LIS-LAW via:http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-law.html
Or send e-mail to [email protected] with only the following text in the body:
subscribe lis-law Your Name
International Calendar for Legal Information Events
SEAALL (Southeastern Chapter, American Association of Law Libraries)
Checklist of Connections to MakeChecklist of Connections to Make
Check websites… Check databases… Check standard tools.. Research guides OPACs Indexes Check people sources… IGOs, NGOs, embassies Listservs
WorkIt!
Question #1: Does the North Question #1: Does the North American Commission for American Commission for
Environmental Cooperation Environmental Cooperation have a Web page?have a Web page?
Yes, at http://www.cec.org/ (there is a link to it from the NAFTA Secretariat page)
Also NYU has a link from its International Environment Law page; ditto with the ASIL ERG for International Environmental Law
Question #2: What does Question #2: What does “RIDC” stand for?“RIDC” stand for?
Revue internationale de droit comparé! (using Sarah Carter’s wonderful “LawLinks” page of abbreviations)
Alternative sources include searching in a full text journal articles database, searching in an online catalogue, or an Internet search engine such as Google
Question #3: Where can I find Question #3: Where can I find the text of the 1958 New York the text of the 1958 New York
Convention?Convention?It’s old, but it’s on the Net! The ASIL ERG
has a link to it. The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards is also at the AustLII Treaties Library (ATS 1975 No. 25)
It also available via other official and unofficial sources such as UNCITRALand InternationalADR
Question #4: Where can I find Question #4: Where can I find English and Spanish English and Spanish
translations of French legal translations of French legal codes?codes?
From the French government’s Legifrance web at http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/html/codes_traduits/liste.htm
See also Reynolds & Flores’ Foreign Law.
Question #5: Where can you Question #5: Where can you find an English translation of find an English translation of the French Vienot Report on the French Vienot Report on
Corporate Governance?Corporate Governance?
My current favorite Internet search engine, Google, is great for this type of question – a document with a popular name on a hot topic.
The European Corporate Governance Network has a link to Vienot I and Vienot II in English from the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF)
Google Search Results for: “Vienot Report” English
See What a Little “Eksperyans” Can Do?See What a Little “Eksperyans” Can Do?
How to Stay Connected…How to Stay Connected…ContinuedContinued
Attend workshops, seminars, and training courses (both substantive and bibliographic)
Attend specialized database sessionsMaintain a personal or institutional web
pageREAD, READ, READ research guides and
substantive international law articlesDo you feel the burn?
You know you’re ready to You know you’re ready to move up to the next level move up to the next level
when...when...You take less time to find the right anwersSomeone asks a question on a listserv and
you know you can answer thatYou no longer feel the burn…
Touchdown! You’re Connected to the World!
FIN
We’re done!
See y’all on
the Net!