Ah, yes! Looking forward to e-access to the EPIL! And forgot to give
kudos to the United Nations and other international organizations and
other folks who've given us free access to some of the other international
legal research resources.
Yep, the Reports of International Arbitral Awards (RIAA) is here:
http://www.un.org/law/riaa/
Yearbook of the International Law Commission (ILC)
http://untreaty.un.org/ilc/publications/yearbooks/yearbooks.htm
UNCITRAL Yearbook (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law)
http://www.uncitral.org/uncitral/en/publications/yearbook.html
Happy researching, y'all! :-)
Lyo.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Wittich Stephan wrote:
> Dear Lyo,
>
> Thanks for that very helpful overview.
> The completely revised edition of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law will be available electronically (in addition to the print version) via OUP!
> Also, the RIAA and the ILC Yearbooks have finally been digitized and are available for free!
> Stephan
>
>
>
> Dr. Stephan Wittich
> Senior Lecturer in International Law
> University of Vienna
> Department of International, European and Comparative Law
> Section for International Law
> Juridicum
> Schottenbastei 10-16
> A-1010 Vienna/Austria
>
> phone: +43-1-427735313
> fax: +43-1-427735321
> web: http://intlaw.univie.ac.at/
>
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: International Law Librarians List (Int-Law) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Im Auftrag von Lyonette Louis-Jacques
> Gesendet: Freitag, 4. April 2008 05:53
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: [Int-Law] International Law Reports forthcoming online?! (1919-date, Cambridge University Press)
>
> Hi Int-Lawyers! Since we got e-mailed this around April 1st, I thought it might be a rather cruel April Fools' joke...:-) (since we've been waiting so long for International Law Reports (ILR) to be digitized), but the info seems to be for real.
>
> There will be a demo of a sample of the database at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) meeting in Washington, D.C. this coming week:
>
> Here's other info:
>
> http://www.justis.com/news/news-asil-ilr.html
>
> http://www.justis.com/news/news-ilr.html
>
> http://www.justis.com/titles/international-law-reports.html
>
> The ILR provides English-language translations of significant decisions of international courts and arbitrations as well as national court decisions related to public international law from 1919 to present. Having electronic access to the cases in ILR will be of great help to international legal researchers. Note that it usually takes a couple of years for a major international law case to be included in ILR. I don't know if the database will provide quicker access to new cases, but the digitization itself of the ILR is tremendous!
>
> I think most of the core international legal research resources in my to-be-digitized list are now available electronically! The East European Constitutional Review (EECR) is now on HeinOnline! The Recueil des cours is available via Oxford University Press! HeinOnline, LLMC Digital, LexisNexis Congressional, Oxford University Press, and now Cambridge University Press have digitized versions of these resources.
>
> What remains to be digitized: International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Bowman & Harris' Multilateral Treaties Index, World Treaty Index (there's a beta version), the rest of the BYIL, and Parry and Grant's Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law.
>
> The pre-1993 UN documents would be great to have digitized too...:-) Any other resource?
>
> Here's what I posted on INT-LAW 2 years ago:
>
> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 08:11:37 -0600 (CST)
> From: Lyonette Louis-Jacques <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Foreign & International Legal Research <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Digitization watch (RIAA, state digests of practice of international law, etc.)
>
> Hi all - since I sent this message last June, the Wharton and Moore digests of U.S. practice of international law have been digitized. Anyone with news re projects/plans to digitize the following, please let me know. Also, let me know if you have any other digitization desiderata titles such as legal periodicals:
>
> British Yearbook of International Law, v.47 (1974)-date International Law Reports (ILR) Reports of International Arbitral Awards (RIAA) Whiteman's Digest of International Law Encyclopedia of Public International Law (EPIL) Bowman & Harris' Multilateral Treaties Index
>
> International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (IECL) Officia gazettes of laws East European Constitutional Review (EECR)
>
> Thanks, Lyo ([log in to unmask])
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:29:41 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Lyonette Louis-Jacques <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: INT-LAW Digitization wish list revisited (RIAA,
> state digests of practice of international law, etc.)
>
> Hi all - back in 1992, INT-LAW folks generated a wish list of international legal materials we wanted available in electronic format.
>
> We have got our wish for the most part. I don't recall if I mentioned on the list that part of the U.S. Department of State Bulletin is now online via the HeinOnline database? (I'm assuming
> v.30-89 (1989) are forthcoming))
>
> Department of State Bulletin Vols. 1-29 (1939-1953) http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?index=journals/dsbul&collection=journals
>
> (an official record of U.S. foreign policy - includes documents, press releases, treaty information)
>
> A portion of the British Yearbook of International Law is also online via HeinOnline.
>
> The decisions of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) are online:
>
> http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idecisions/icpij/
> http://www.worldcourts.com/pcij/eng/pcij-decisions.htm
>
> We have the World Treaty Index test database:
>
> http://depts.washington.edu/hrights/Treaty/trindex.html
> http://db.lib.washington.edu/wti/wtdb.htm
>
> From our wish lists over the years, remaining to be digitized are the International Law Reports (ILR), the Reports of International Arbitral Awards (RIAA), the various digests of United States practice in international law (particularly the Whiteman Digest), the Encyclopedia of Public International Law, the Bowman & Harris multilateral treaties index.
>
> I've been pushing for digitization of the East European Constitutional Review (EECR) and I've got assurances that it will happen.
>
> For other foreign law, PCI Full Text enables keyword searching of the tables of contents of Spanish, French, and German law journals going back to the first volume (helps for legal history research):
> http://pcift.chadwyck.com/pcift/search?source=subbrowse1.cfg&Action=DisplaySGML&SEARCH=Search&scheck=Y&filter=N&sgmlname=subjects22
>
> The Legal Information Institutes, LegiFrance, etc. also provide deep access to foreign law:
>
> http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/services/research/guides/international/web_resources/index.php
> http://www.worldlii.org/
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/
> http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/
> http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/country.html
>
> I don't recall if we've added the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law to our digitization wish lists yet? We want to digitize some of the basic reference tools going back to the first volumes (such as dictionaries, foreign legal periodical index es, sources of law in English translation, etc.)
>
> It's really incredible what we have available electronically that we didn't have back in 1992. Unfortunately, there is an urgency for initiatives to digitize even more international legal materials.
> Our libraries are running out of space to maintain print materials.
> And we still cannot fully rely on electronic resources to conduct certain types of foreign, comparative, and international legal research. And some of the foreign law we had access to via LexisNexis and WESTLAW databases are no longer available. So the e-situation is ever changing. The situation is constantly in flux.
>
> So, anyone know of existing digitization initiatives? Anyone want to add to our existing wish lists of international legal resources we would like to see in electronic format? I'm also interested in non-U.S. and foreign language resources we want to make a priority to digitize.
>
> Let me know off-list at [log in to unmask]
>
> Mille grazie! :-)
> Lyo.
>
> Lyonette Louis-Jacques
> Foreign and International Law
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