E-resources for Master Students in International Law
Martine Basset
Céline Vilmen
Librarians
17 March 2011

Content:
-Reading a reference
-Retrieving:
- an article
- a treaty
- an international case-law
- the national and international practice
- introduction to the boolean search
- the doctrine
-Reference management

Article in a book:
Islamic Capital Markets: a Growing Area for Investments
Mahlknecht, Michael / World Scientific / In: Current Issues in
Islamic Banking and Finance : Resilience and Stability in the Present System / ed. Angelo M. Venardos, ISBN
9789812833921/ 2010

Article in a periodical:
Humanitarian Limits to Sovereignty: Common Concern and Common Heritage
Approaches to Natural Resources and Environment.Stec, Stephen / In: International
Community Law Review; vol. 12, afl. 3, pag. 361-389 / 2010

Article in a periodical (reference with an acronym)
Thomas M. Franck, The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance , 86 Am. J. Int'l
L . 46 (1992)
-> Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
(http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk)

Essential data: author, title of the article, journal, volume, date, page
First step
-> A to Z E-journals list
-> HeinOnline / Ingenta
-> Westlaw
-> Lexis Nexis
Second step
-> Library catalogue
Third step
-> Interlibrary Loan

Essential data: participant, date of conclusion, title (eventually date of entry into force, treaty type, subject term)
-> United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) and League of Nations Treaty Series
(LNTS)
-> International Legal Materials (ILM)
(HeinOnline)
-> Subject guide

Retrieving an international case-law
Essential data: case name, Court, date
-> Reports of International Arbitral Awards
-> International Court of Justice (ICJ)
-> Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals
-> Oxford Reports on International Law (ICC)
-> International law reports
-> Investment claims
-> International Chamber of Commerce dispute settlement
-> Westlaw (American Courts)

-> International Yearbooks (HeinOnline)
-> Web (Government)
-> Westlaw
-> Lexis Nexis

-> United Nations Documents (ODS.un.org)
-> WTO (WorldTradeLaw.net)
-> EU Law (Eur-lex)

And
State AND contracts
« State contracts » AND investment AND oil
(State contracts NOT investment) AND IRAN
Not
« State contracts » OR « investment contracts »
Or

Essential data: Books (author, title, publisher, date)
-> Library catalogue (+ classification)
-> E-books
-> RCADI

-> Zotero
-> Endnote catherine.brendow@graduateinstitute.ch

martine.basset@graduateinstitute.ch
celine.vilmen@graduateinstitute.ch