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Multinational and Foreign Treaties & International Agreements

You will learn which resources in the UCONN Law Library to use to find the text, verify the status, and research multinational treaties/international agreements to which the U.S. may or may not be party, as well as non-US treaties.

Travaux Preparatoires

 

The equivalent of the compiled statutory legislative history for treaties is called by its French name, travaux preparatoires.  Look for such materials in the UCONN Law Library online catalog and WorldCat (NetID required) use this phrase and words from the official name of the treaty in a keyword search.

For more information on finding travaux preparatoires, see À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements by Jonathan Pratter (2005, updated 2008, 2012 & 2015) - GlobaLex.

 

 

Research Help

Be sure to consult the Research Guides at the Home tab  and remember that if you need assistance with doing any research in the UCONN Law Library, the Reference Librarians will be pleased to help.

Books in the UCONN Law Library

Below is a sampling of recently published books held by the Law Library on various treaty-related topics. You can use the same LC Subject Headings to find more in the Law Library using Advanced Search in the Online Catalog or use WorldCat to find other books that the Law Library does not hold but  that you can borrow using InterLibrary Loan. 

Treaties

Treaties - Interpretation & Construction

Treaty-making Power

Treaties - Congresses

 

Periodical Articles in the UCONN Law Library

Below is a small sampling of recent articles from various journals held by the UCONN Law Library using specified treaty-related LC Subject Headings in the catalog. To find more, you can use one of the periodical indexes to find articles on these or other topics. 

When you use one of the indexes, if you find an article that you would like to read but the full-text does not seem to be available, check the online catalog and the E-Journal Locator to see if you have access to the journal in print or in another database.

You also can search the research databases [NetID may be required] of full-text PDF journals such as HeinOnline Law Journal Library and JSTOR or any of other databases by topic. Don't forget the journal and newspaper libraries on Lexis AdvanceWestlaw and Bloomberg Law (subscription databases - Id requried for all)

Treaties - interpretation & construction

  • Qi, The Definition of Investment and its Development: for the Reference of the Future BIT between China and Canada, 45(3) Revue Juridique Themis 541-563 (2011)

Treaty-Making power

Treaties

 

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