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LAW5ICL- International Criminal LawKate Freedman, Clare O'HanlonSenior Learning AdvisorCollege of ASSC, School of LawSummer 2017.

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Overview

Subject Libguide: http://latrobe.libguides.com/LAW5ICL

ICC website

Oxford Public International Law

Secondary Sources

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ICC

ICC core legal texts includes: (http://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/educational-resources/Pages/default.aspx)

Rome Statute http://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/PIDS/publications/RomeStatutEng.pdf

Rules of Procedure and Evidence http://www.icc-cpi.int/en_menus/icc/legal%20texts%20and%20tools/official%20journal/Documents/RulesProcedureEvidenceEng.pdf

Elements of Crimes http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/336923D8-A6AD-40EC-AD7B-45BF9DE73D56/0/ElementsOfCrimesEng.pdf

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Legal Tools Database- http://www.legal-tools.org/

The Tools comprise the online "Legal Tools Database", together with legal research and reference tools developed by lawyers with expertise in international criminal law and justice: the Case Matrix, the Elements Digest, the Proceedings Digest and the Means of Proof Digest.

What is in the tools database: http://www.legal-tools.org/overview-of-the-tools/

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Searching the Legal Tools Database- http://www.legal-tools.org/

Can search via a term or “multi-term phrase” (in quotation marks)

Predictive text from keywords thesaurus

Can search a specific field for a term by adding a colon (:)

Title: judgement

Organisation: IMT or Special Tribunal for Lebanon

Boolean Operators

AND finds both terms --

OR finds one or both terms

NOT excludes a term

Wildcards

Only work on singe term queries.

? Single character search- text or test (te?t)

* multiple characher search e.g. cultur* finds culture, cultural; Kara*ic finds Karadzic or Karazdic

~ at end of term fuzzy search e.g. Karadzic~ finds alternate name spellings Karadiic.

o Can combine with booleanoperators e.g. Karadzic~ AND genocide

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NIDL: National Implementing Legislation Database

The National Implementing Legislation Database (NILD) is a fully searchable database of national legislation which enables users to easy identify relevant provisions or sections of national legislation.

View by states, keywords

Search by keyword, implementation documents, State implementations of particular keywords

Each result displays the relevant provision in the Rome Statute (if available) and the list of States (countries) which have implemented this provision.

Clicking on the provision number takes you to the relevant part of the legislation.

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Oxford Public International Law Database

They all interlink via the Oxford Law Citator.

Can browse or search all via subject- International Criminal Law

Max Plank Encyclopaedia on International Law

Oxford Reports on International Law (browse or search)

Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law (ICL)

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (Online Books) (Browse by book title or subject)

Schabas: The International Criminal Court: A Commentary on the Rome Statute

Gaeta: The UN Genocide Convention: A Commentary

Cassese et al: The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice

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Secondary Sources: Journal Articles and Databases Coverage

AGIS

APAIS

Westlaw US,

Lexis.com: US & Canada Westlaw UK,

Lexis.com: UK

Legal Source (formally Index to Legal Periodicals) (Ebsco)

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Hein)

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Foreign Law Guide (Brill)Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law (Brill)

Reference Database (under F and H respectively)

Browse laws and commentary by Country and Course

Gives introductory and online sources

UN Documents and Treaties

UN Document Centre

Find documents by entering the symbol eg. A/63/100

United Nations Treaty Collection

Tick the treaty by popular name or search via title or participants.

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Secondary Sources- Journal Articles via Databases

Legal Source (formerly Index to Legal Periodicals) (Ebsco)

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (Hein online)

Use general search principles:

Quotation marks: “united nations” for phrase searching

Asterisk: state* for truncation- finds state, states, statehood etc..

The Near operator (N#): finds words near each other regardless of word order.

o E.g.. legal N5 principles will find legal principles as well as principles of legal reform.

The Within Operator: (W#) - finds words in the order in which you entered them.

o In the above example using W4 would find legal principles but not principles of legal reform.

Subject headings of articles help you gather related articles on a particular topic or concept

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Additional Secondary Sources

Databases

Westlaw

Lexis.com

Newspapers

Factiva

NOTE: We may not hold all the articles in these indexes in Full Text.

Clicking on the Full Text Finder link next to the article may bring it up or check if we hold the article by looking for the Journal in the Library Search Journals Tab.

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Search Strategy: Extra Hints

Reformulate a query based on documents identified as relevant

Example: Find a key paper and look at how it has been indexed…

Choose to search terms by Subject to pick up articles that may be missed by a key word search.

Google Scholar

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Google Scholar

Set your preferences to retrieve La Trobe resources: scholar.google.com

Select Settings > Library Link > add La Trobe University Library > Save

Google Scholar vs. Library Databases

state responsibility AND internationally wrongful acts

The AND is needed in Library Databases.

Google Scholar does NOT index everything.

Use as another tool WITH the library databases.

Thank you

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Any Questions?

Kate Freedman- k.freedman@latrobe.edu.auClare O’Hanlon: c.ohanlon@latrobe.edu.au