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Title: Rightslink: Research Tips: Domestic and International Law
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Rightslink Research Tips Domestic and
International Law
- Dana Neacsu, Fall 2007
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Today We Will Cover
- Legal Research as a Two-fold Process
- How to Use Finding Aid Tools.
- Catalogs and Indexes to Legal Periodicals
- Top 10 source gathering sources
- Identifying unknown abbreviations
- Research Tips
- Domestic law
- International law
- IV. Library Hours
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II. Finding SourcesLibrary Catalogs
- Use the following catalogs for the following
specific tasks - the Diamond Law Librarys catalog,
PEGASUS-http//pegasus.law.columbia.edu/- for
legal scholarship - the University Libraries catalog, CLIO, for both
legal and non-legal scholarship - and WorldCat to find such sources beyond the
Columbia system.
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Finding SourcesIndexes to Legal Periodicals
- Use Specialized Periodical Indexes
- Wilsons Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) and the
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP). - Available from PEGASUS-http//pegasus.law.columbia
.edu/ - PAIS, ABI/Inform, ProQuest, EconLit, etc FRANCIS
(International Humanities and Social Science),
PsycINFO, Social Science Full-text, ERIC, etc.
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2. Top 10 source gathering sources (I)
- The Library of Congress. Thomas. Legislative
Information on the Internet - http//thomas.loc.gov
- 9. American Memory Project
- http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
- 8. HeinOnline from Pegasus
- Law Reviews (complimenting L/WL)
- Official treaty sources (and more)
- 7. UN Official Document System (ODS)
- http//www.ods.un.org/
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Top 10 Source Gathering Sources (II)
- 6. Foreign Law Guide (aka Reynolds and Flores)
(Pegasus) - 5. Non-law (CLIO) databases
- JSTOR Project Muse
- 3. Google Uncle Sam (gov. related docs)
- http//www.google.com/ig/usgov
- 2. Government documents (GPO) primary sources
- www.gpoaccess.gov
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Top 10 Source Gathering Sources (III)
- 1. Library Research Sources
- CLS Research Guides http//www.law.columbia.ed
u/library/Research_Guides - NYU Globalex
- http//www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
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3. Identifying Unknown Abbreviations
- Biebers Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations
- Print Reference Office drawer
- Lexis
- Find a source Biebers
- The Bluebook
- Print The Reserve Area
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III. Research Tips. Overview
- Learn how to identify and use Research (Finding
Aid) Tools and Legal Scholarship to find
Domestic, International or Foreign Primary
Sources - Apply the well-known research strategy
- Come up with a research plan, and
- Keep a research log
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Domestic Law Research. Finding Aid Tools
- The Main Finding Aid Tools are
- Library Catalogs for treatises, practitioners
sources (Am.Jur), Restatements, Encyclopedias,
etc. - Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) for law review
articles
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Minimal Knowledge in an Area of Law Go to a
Treatise.
- How to Find a Treatise
- Library Catalogs-Pegasus
- http//pegasus.law.columbia.edu
- Lexis
- http//www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/
- Westlaw
- http//lawschool.westlaw.com/
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Minimal Knowledge in a More Concrete Area Use
ILP to Locate Law Review Articles
- Use Pegasus http//pegasus.law.columbia.edu
- Find Indexes to Legal Periodicals
- Find Law Review Articles (HeinonLine)
- Lexis
- http//www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/
- Westlaw
- http//lawschool.westlaw.com/
- Both have the current version of the ILP
- Both have most (current) law review articles
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Primary Sources in Domestic Law
- Statutes
- Codes, Session Laws, Legislative history,
- Research tips Use USCA Index
- Administrative Law
- CFR, FR.
- Research tips Use RegulationsPlus Index
- Case law
- Case Law Research
- Full-text searching (Lexis Westlaw)
- Other approaches (Segments West-Digest)
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III. Research Tips. International Law
- Research Strategy
- Identify useful research tools (IFLP) and la
doctrine - Identify the Relevant Primary Sources
- Treaty Research.
- Case Law Research
- Doctrine Research (same search strategy for
secondary sources
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Primary Sources in International Law
- What Is International Law?
- Restatement of the Law 3d Foreign Relations Law
of the United States - Article 102-Sources of International Law
- Article 103-Evidence of International Law
- How Do You Find It?
- Official Web Sites/Lexis/Westlaw/
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Treaties and Treaty Research
- UN Treaties and Other Documents
- Is the US party to CEDAW?
- What is CEDAW (Biebers) (Lexis)
- Where can you find its text?
- Use UN Treaty Series, HeinOnline (Pegasus), Lexis
or Westlaw to find CEDAW - What 2001 document from the Sixth Committee
details the establishment of the International
Criminal Court. - What is the document number? Use Unbisnet
(un.org) or Access UN A/56/591 - Is the full text available?
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International Case Law Research
- What is the ICJ case about the U.S. paramilitary
activities in South America? - Where can you find the decision?
- On the official website
- Where can you find the pleadings?
- On line and in print in our library (use Pegasus)
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IV. Library Hours for Fall 2007
- Ref office hours
- M-Th 10-8
- F 10-5
- Sat. 1-6
- Sun 1-9
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