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Articles, Journals, and Periodical Indexes

Legal Abbreviations (Templeman Library, Kent Law School; Sarah Carter)

Legal Abbreviations (Sweet & Maxwell)

Selected Legal Abbreviations (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS))

Law Reports and Abbreviations Database (UNSW Law Library)

International Law and Relations Journals are online in full text in the following databases: LEXIS, WESTLAW, Hein-on-Line, Cambridge Journals Online, Kluwer Online, Oxford Online Journals, JSTOR (includes history and political journals), CatchWord, Ingenta, ProQuest, Dow Jones Interactive, EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite)

Columbia International Affairs Online (full text of conference papers, working papers, etc.)

Foreign Affairs Envoy: An Index to the International Affairs Literature

   Contents and abstracts of the leading journals, including current and
   past issues of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International
   Organization, International Security, The National Interest, World
   Policy Journal and World Politics; lists of new and recent books on
   International Affairs; search of the leading journals by subject;
   link to reference documents as compiled in the Foreign Policy
   Bulletin; special research guides/"folders" on the Economic Crisis
   in Asia, NATO Enlargement, Landmine Ban, and Hong Kong 1997; links
   to upcoming conferences related to International Affairs.

Peace Palace Library (Bibliotheek Vredespaleis; indexes articles from the Peace Palace Library's strong collection of international law journals)

European Journal of International Law (EJIL; full text of all the volumes via the Academy of European Law Online)

International Law Journals (links via the University of Chicago Law School page, including the newly launched Chicago Journal of International Law (CJIL; first issue published April 2000))

Gary Hufbauer, Does International Law Matter to Congress?: Economic Sanctions (92nd Annual Meeting, American Society of International Law, Washington D.C., April 4, 1998)

American Journal of International Law (available in full text online from v.1, 1907 to v.88, 1994 via the JSTOR subscription service; tables of contents of recent issues available from the American Society of International Law)

International Organization (scholarly journal of international affairs published by MIT Press available in full text online from volumes 1-47, 1947-1993 via the JSTOR subscription service)

Recueil des Cours ("Collected Courses" of the Hague Academy of International Law - tables of contents of v.1 (1923) to v.269 (1997) and thereafter)

United Nations Law Reports ("Unofficial Reports Concerning Legal Matters in the United Nations"; tables of contents of issues; subscription newsletter)

International Law Update (Washington, D.C. : Transnational Law Associates, Vol. 1 (Oct. 1995)- ; ISSN: 1089-5450; "a monthly report on public and private international legal developments - reports on "treaties, cases, statutes and regulations of special interest to U.S. lawyers and clients; web site includes sample issues, the cumulative table of contents for 1997, and information on upcoming international conferences and related events; subscription newsletter; also online on WESTLAW as the INTLLUP database and on LEXIS in the INTLAW Library and ILAWUP file, from October 1995 to the present)

Human Rights Brief ("A Legal Resource for the International Human Rights Community"; full text of this newsletter available online beginning with v.1, #1, Spring 1994)

Nuclear Law Bulletin (full text of OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) bulletin from 1968, no.1 through 1997, no.60 in PDF format, include Supplements with English translations of nuclear legislation worldwide and cumulative index)

The New York Review of Books (includes the full texts of articles from 1995 to the present and selected articles from before 1995 related to human rights, war crimes, etc.)

Selected International Law E-Journals and Newsletters (see also ASCII Text File, section 16, "Selected Electronic Newsletters and Journals")

Electronic Law Journals and Law Reports (Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) "Internet Resources for Law"; includes links to full texts, abstracts, and tables of contents of journals)

SRDI (Sommaires des Revues de Droit International = Summaries of Contents of International Law Journals by Christophe Nouzha)

Harvard Jean Monnet Table of Contents Service (covers about 101 journals published in nine languages and 14 countries; started in Spring 1999 as a current awareness service mainly covering European Integration journals in the areas of law and human rights; as of February 2000, has extended coverage to economics, history and political sciences journals and called European Integration Current Contents; contents of journals newly arrived at the Harvard Law School and European University Institute (EUI) libraries?; a service of The Academy of European Law at the EUI in Florence, the EU Center at Harvard and the Harvard Jean Monnet Chair; updated every two weeks; useful as a index to European law journals)

Contents Pages from Law Reviews (Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin Law School; "this service provides an online version of the contents pages from more than 750 law reviews and other scholarly journals related to the law published in the United States and abroad; the files are updated daily and are very current-- the contents pages from a journal issue will appear in this listing the day following its receipt by the Tarlton Law Library; only journal issues received during the past three months are listed; the contents of less recent issues are available through the commercial indexing services")

PCI Full Text (Chadwyck-Healey Periodical Contents Index searchable tables of contents including over 114 law journals from 1770 to 1995 with full text for a few such as Foreign Affairs and Journal of International Affairs)

Financial Times' Global Archives (FT.com; search of articles from 3,000 periodicals worldwide)

SmartCILP (customized e-mail service of Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP); can include journals covering foreign and international law topics)

International Law Journals (FindLaw)

Legal Scholarship on the WWW (annotated subject index to legal essays on the Web provided by the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University; this list of "Legal Journals Indexed by Subject" (44 subjects) includes a paragraph abstracting/summarizing each journal article with links to full texts; topics include Comparative Law, European Union Law, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Peoples, International Law, Maritime and International Trade Law, Roman Law)

Searchable Tables of Contents of Kluwer Journals (covers from about 1995 to date; includes Kluwer Online law journals)

Law Journals on the World-Wide-Web (Faculty of Law, Cambridge University)

Legal Journals on the Web (York University Law Library)

Electronic Legal Journals (York University Law Library e-journal links)

Law Journals Online (University of Toronto list of journals on LEXIS, WESTLAW, QUICKLAW, the Internet)

Law Journals (including international; see also Hieros Gamos and WashLaw pages)

2001 On-Line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals (compiled by Michael H. Hoffheimer, Professor of Law, University of Mississippi; Anderson Publishing; includes International and Comparative Law Reviews and Human Rights Law Reviews; see also Professor Rick Bales' Law Review Electronic Submission Listing for general law reviews e-mail addresses; there's a 2002 print edition of Anderson's Directory of Law Reviews)

ASILEX (Publications Database of the American Society of International Law; searchable bibliography/index of ASIL periodical publications such as the American Journal of International Law and International Legal Materials - 1990-2001 and Books and Occasional Papers - 1964-2001)

Public International Law: A Current Bibliography of Books and Articles (Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg; journal)

Acquisitions List (Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)'s list of books and articles by subject archived from 14 October 1997 to date; serves as a current index to journal articles on international law; see also Monthly Bibliography from January 1998 to date)

European Commission Library Catalogue (indexes journal articles related to European law and international law - limit "Document type" to "Article" in your search)

RAVE (Rechtsprechung und Aufsätze zum Völker- und Europarecht = Decisions and Journal Articles on Public International Law and European Law; systematic/classified and alphabetical subject, and keyword searchable index to articles in selected law journals, with links to related web sites; was at http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/WWW/Jura/kokott/rave/e/englhome.htm)

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP; access to this RLG EUREKA subscription database is limited to University of Chicago faculty, students, and staff; the IFLP indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports from 1985 to the present; it covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth; up-to-date list of periodicals indexed by IFLP available via the University of California Berkeley Boalt Hall Law Library web page)

LegalTrac (an InfoTrac database indexing Anglo-American law reviews, including those covering foreign, comparative, and international law; also called Legal Resource Index (LRI on WESTLAW and in the LEXIS LAWREV library, IGLIND file)

Legal Journals Index (LJI on WESTLAW; index to British journals, including those covering European law and foreign, comparative, and international law)

Social Sciences Citation Index (an ISI Web of Science/Web of Knowledge database that covers Law and Political Science journals including articles on international law and international relations from 1956 to date)

Political Science and Government Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) service indexing worldwide political science journals beginning in 1975; also indexes web resources)

PAIS International (access to this OCLC FirstSearch subscription database limited to University of Chicago; PAIS International corresponds to the print publications PAIS Bulletin, PAIS Foreign Language Index, and PAIS International in Print, and also includes the Periodicals/Publishers Directory; database consists of records representing articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories in the area of public affairs; topics covered include business, government, international relations, banking, environment, health, social sciences, demographics, law and legislation, political science, public administration, finance, agriculture, education, statistics, and more; abstracts are included for most records since 1985; coverage starts from 1972-date)

UnCover/Ingenta (index to about 17,000 journals, including law-related ones; Ingenta provides full text for some journals)

Law Journal Tables of Contents (Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin)

SCAD Plus (European Union publication indexing documents and journal articles worldwide, including law journals - see SCAD DATABASE at bottom of page)

Index to Israeli Legal Periodicals (references to legal articles from 1976 to the present, in Hebrew and English; including articles on Human Rights, International Law, etc.; can also access via telnet from the Law Library, Bar Ilan University, from the ALEPH computerized catalog)

Contemporary Women's Issues (health and human rights related articles and books - full text)

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ-Online; Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur - indexes journal articles from over 11,000 English and European periodicals, books, and dissertations; coverage begins with 1984)


Major Listservs and Usenet Newsgroups (Electronic Discussion Groups)

ASIL@lawvc.law.vill.edu (American Society of International Law list for members of the Interest Group on Teaching International Law; formerly Innovations in International Legal Education, then Innovations in Teaching International Law until March 1999; was ASIL-INNOVATIONS on majordomo@mail.law.vill.edu until February 2000; related page at http://lawvc.law.vill.edu/~asil/)

ASILIEL@u.washington.edu (American Society of International Law list restricted to members of the Interest Group on International Environmental Law; to subscribe, send e-mail to listproc@u.washington.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:

     subscribe asiliel Your Name

ASILIELG@listproc.kentlaw.edu (American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Interest Group; to subscribe, send e-mail to listproc@listproc.kentlaw.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:

     subscribe asilielg

ASYLUM-L@listserver.ufsia.ac.be (Legal Aspects of Asylum and Refugee Law; to subscribe, send a blank e-mail message to asylum-l-subscribe@listserver.ufsia.ac.be

EURO-LEX@listserv.gmd.de (All EUROpean Legal Information EXchange; European Union and law of individual countries of Europe; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.gmd.de with only the following text in the body of the message:

     subscribe euro-lex Your Name

INT-LAW@listhost.ciesin.org (Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Resources; was on listserv@tc.umn.edu until 30 April 1998; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org with only the following text in the body of the message:

n     subscribe int-law

INT-LAW-DIGEST@listhost.ciesin.org (Foreign, Comparative, and International Legal Resources; started on 30 April 1998; subscribers receive 1 message a day containing a batch of all the messages posted that day with all the subject headers/topics for the messages included at the beginning of the digest; to subscribe, send e-mail to majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org with only the following text in the body of the message:

     subscribe int-law-digest

JUSTWATCH-L@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (International Justice Watch List; includes news and discussions of the international war crimes tribunals for former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, the crisis in Kosovo, and related topics - international criminal law, international humanitarian law, human rights; subscription upon approval of listowners; intended for serious discussions; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:

     subscribe justwatch-l Your Name

TWATCH-L@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu (Tribunal Watch; International War Crimes Tribunals - Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; see also the JUSTWATCH-L list above; was on listserv@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu; to subscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu with only the following text in the body of the message:

     subscribe twatch-l Your Name

Discussion Group Archives (& "Lyo's Law Lists")


International Legal News Sources

International Law in Brief (weekly electronic newsletter covering developments in international law, including summaries of judicial and other decisions (with hypertext links to full texts), prepared by the Attorney-Editors of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law)

International Law Update (Washington, D.C. : Transnational Law Associates, Vol. 1 (Oct. 1995)- ; ISSN: 1089-5450; "a monthly report on public and private international legal developments - reports on "treaties, cases, statutes and regulations of special interest to U.S. lawyers and clients; web site includes sample issues, the cumulative table of contents for 1997, and information on upcoming international conferences and related events; subscription newsletter; also online on WESTLAW as the INTLLUP database and on LEXIS in the INTLAW Library and ILAWUP file, from October 1995 to the present)

West's Case Updates: International Law (twice-monthly summaries of important legal cases related to international law in the United States)

TRANSLEX: Transnational Law Exchange (newsletter on international legal developments; web site includes tables of contents and selected full texts)

United Nations Law Reports ("Unofficial Reports Concerning Legal Matters in the United Nations"; newsletter; web site has tables of contents of back issues from June 1, 1998 to date)

UN Daily Highlights ("A World of News from the World Organization"; brief press news summaries)

UN Wire ("An Independent News Briefing About the United Nations", provided by the United Nations Foundation)

World Justice Information Network (WJIN; includes international criminal justice-related news)

World News Connection (subscription service intended to be the electronic version of the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports)

World News

World Legal News (JURIST Law Professors' Network)

Washington File (provides United States Government official texts, policy statements and interpretive material, features, and byline articles prepared daily by the United States Information Agency (USIA); includes foreign and international news on international security, economic issues, democracy and human rights, etc.)

Documents in the News: Current Events Research (University of Michigan Documents Center)

Selected International Law E-Journals and E-Newsletters


Directories


Research Centers, Institutes, Schools (including Working Papers)