IHR: using treaties 2010
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This document discusses finding authoritative texts of treaties and international agreements from reliable sources. It recommends using the League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS) and United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) as the primary sources, as well as the International Legal Materials (ILM) for more recent treaties. It provides information on accessing the full texts of these sources through libraries like HeinOnline or websites like the United Nations Treaty Collection database. Government and international organization websites can also contain freely available treaty texts.
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IHR: using treaties 2010
- 1. Treaties & IHR studies Elizabeth Wells Bodleian Law Library July 2010
- 6. French & English (also in Index Volumes)
- 8. HeinOnline Ignore Treaties and Agreements Library (USA) For LNTS (& UNTS) click United Nations Law Collection
- 9. HeinOnline’s UN Law Collection Click on any of these and search box opens
- 10. Most academic footnotes will have LNTS citation A click on this link produces very intuitive boxes to fill in
- 11. No citation? Searching for inter world war treaty remember to uncheck the UNTS box
- 12. Click Print/Download To see text Other results – details of Ratifications, Accessions of States Scholar Check to journal articles on the topic
- 14. UNTS > 2,000 vv & growing
- 15. Hein post 1945 Treaty search Remember to have only UNTS checked
- 17. Lexis Library via Source Tab – either Find a Source – or Filter by International & Pick I
- 18. Westlaw – Click Services – drop down Westlaw International
- 20. Eg African Commission on H&PR
- 24. Eisil’s great for more than treaties! Free online guide to researching IHR!
- 25. Search Results for African HR
- 26. More Information link UNTS/ ILM citation Great for your dissertation!
- 29. Online intro to Treaty Law
- 30. http://treaties.un.org Status of Treaties database Quirks Use IE Always hit Search [not return] Use Clear
- 31. To avoid quirks drill down!
- 33. Click on a treaty name & get … Click on name of state to see more detail about its participation
- 34. Details of reservations etc
- 35. Manipulating result Citation for your dissertation!
- 37. Envelope / email option
- 38. Full Text window We have come full circle with a free source of UNTS text via these links!
Editor's Notes
- Treaties come under a variety of names :Vienna Convention on the Law Of Treaties 1969 art 2(1)(a) Defines a treaty as “ an international agreement … in written form … whatever its particular designation.”
- Anyone writing work for the Law Faculty of Oxford University is required to follow the guidance of OSCOLA. This can be consulted online at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php
- For any treaty dating from the inter World War period/lifetime of the League of Nations, OSCOLA requires a citation to the LNTS whenever such is available
- OU Students: If you are outside the Oxford University network, remember to sign into OxLIP+ using your Oxford Single Sign On to get access to HeinOnline.
- Explore the options via the drop down menus
- Once again, you have choice of searching by UNTS citation or wider search – but this time remember only to have UNTS checked OU Students: If you are outside the Oxford University network, remember to sign into OxLIP+ using your Oxford Single Sign On to get access to HeinOnline.
- Finding ILM on LexisLibrary
- Duty of transparency to its citizens or because appointed as an Official Depository
- Legal Instruments library has useful collection of texts of various treaties
- Drill down one page to limit searches to International HR
- You can now use the find box (top left corner) and its drop down options for a narrower search
- Available from are links through to reliable sources of texts. Entry in Force dates too.
- You may need to check the relationship between a state and a treaty – or when a treaty entered into force.
- Treaty Event at the UN. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Antigua and Barbuda signs the Convention on Cluster Munitions Dublin, 30 May 2008 on behalf of his country. Signature – though it sounds final – may only be part of the ratification process!
- Through OxLIP+ you have access to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law which will help you with any queries you might have about treaty terms
- Free but can be temperamental!
- Eg to find the Agreement establishing the Fund for the Development of the Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean. Madrid, 24 July 1992 No.14 quickly Control + f and start Caribbean in the search box