D. Print and Online Secondary Sources of International Law

• Author: Ted Tjaden
• Profession: National Director of Knowledge Management McMillan LLP
• Pages: 166-175

Contenidos

• 1) Books.
• 2) Journals.
• 3) Encyclopedias/Dictionaries.
• 4) Case Law Digests.
• 5) Websites.

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This section will provide information on secondary sources of international law, focusing on the major books, journals, encyclopedias/ dictionaries, and websites that provide commentary or overviews of international legal research. As mentioned above, the resources listed below should ordinarily be the first place you go to get an explanation or overview of a particular area of international law.

1) Books

You can safely assume that someone, somewhere, has written a book on an area of international law that you need to research. The titles

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below are only a selected list of fairly general titles on international law. If you need to find more specific or topical books, simply try a title keyword search in a major law library catalogue using the keywords "international" and "law" plus a keyword for the particular sub-topic, for example, "environmental" if you were looking for a book on international environmental law.

a) Selected Canadian Texts on Public International Law

· Alexandrowicz, George et al. Dimensions of Law: Canadian and International Law in the 21st Century. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2004.

· Currie, John H., Craig Forcese, & Valerie Oosterveld. International Law: Doctrine, Practice, and Theory. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2007.

· Currie, John H. Public International Law. 2d ed. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008.

· Currie, Robert J. International and Transnational Criminal Law. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010.

· Fitzgerald, Oonagh E., ed. The Globalized Rule of Law: Relationships between International and Domestic Law. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006.

· Forcese, Craig. National Security Law: Canadian Practice in International Perspective. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008.

· Freeman, Mark & Gib van Ert. International Human Rights Law. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004.

· Holding, John D. Canadian Manual of International Air Carriage. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2005.

· Kindred, Hugh M. et al. International Law, Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada. 7th ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2006.

· Schabas, William A. & Stéphane Beaulac. International Human Rights and Canadian Law: Legal Commitment, Implementation and the Charter. 3d ed. Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2007.

· Van Ert, Gibran. Using International Law in Canadian Courts. 2d ed. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008.

b) Selected Canadian Texts on Private International Law

· Appleton, Barry. Navigating NAFTA: A Concise User’s Guide to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Toronto: Carswell, 1994.

· Baer, Marvin. Private International Law in Common Law Canada: Cases, Text, and Materials. 2d ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2003.

· Barin, Babak. Carswell’s Handbook of International Dispute Resolution Rules. Toronto: Carswell, 1999.

· Castel, Jean G. Introduction to Conflict of Laws. 4th ed. Markham, ON: Butterworths, 2002.

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· Gold, Edgar et al. Maritime Law. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004.

· Johnson, Jon R. International Trade Law. Toronto: Irwin Law, 1998.

· Krishna, Vern. Canadian International Taxation. Looseleaf. Scarborough, ON: Carswell, 1995.

· Lemieux, Denis & Ana Stuhec. Review of Administrative Action under NAFTA. Scarborough, ON: Carswell, 1999.

· Nicholson, Mary Jo. Legal Aspects of International Business: A Canadian Perspective. 2d ed. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2007.

· Pitel, Stephen G.A. & Nicholas Rafferty. Conflict of Laws. Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010.

· Thomas, Jeffrey S. & Michael A. Meyer. The New Rules of Global Trade: A Guide to the World Trade Organization. Scarborough, ON: Carswell, 1997.

· Walker, Janet. Castel & Walker: Canadian Conflict of Laws. Looseleaf. 6th ed. Markham, ON: LEXISNEXIS Canada, 2005.

c) Selected American and British Texts on Public and Private International Law

· Brownlie, Ian. Basic Documents in International Law. 6th ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2008.

· Brownlie, Ian. Principles of Public International Law. 7th ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2008.

· Buergenthal, Thomas & Sean D. Murphy. Buergenthal and Murphy’s Public International Law in a Nutshell. 4th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 2007.

· Cassese, Antonio. International Law. 2d ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2005.

· Chuah, Jason. Law of International Trade. 4th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell/Thomson Reuters, 2009.

· Collins, Lawrence et al., eds. Dicey and Morris on the Conflict of Laws. 14th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2006.

· Hoffman, Marci & Robert C. Berring. International Legal Research in a Nutshell. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2008.

· Janis, Mark. An Introduction to International Law. 5th ed. Frederick, MD: Aspen Publishers, 2008.

· Koskenniemi, Martti. Sources of International Law. Burlington, VT: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2000.

· Malanczuk, Peter. Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International Law. 8th ed. New York: Routledge, 2010...