Foreign, Comparative & International Law

Outline
Introduction: Definition of Terms
Introduction to International Law
Treaties & Agreements
Customary International Law
International Organizations
Final Review
Essential Sources

1 Background
1.1 Definitions of International Law
1.2 Institutions Involved in the Process
1.3 Identification of Authoritative Texts
1.4 How International Law Texts are Created
2 General Introductory Materials
2.1 Dictionaries
2.2 Encyclopedias
2.3 Key Treatises
2.4 Recent Research Guides
3 Treaties and Other Forms of International Agreements
3.1 Publication of U.S. Treaties
3.2 Treaty Citation
3.3 Approaching Treaty Material
3.4 Phone Numbers
4 Custom and State Practice
4.1 Breadth and Context
4.2 Historical
5 General Principles of Law
6 Case Law and Secondary Materials
6.1 International Courts
6.2 The International Court of Justice
6.3 European Courts
6.3.1 The Court System of the European Union
6.2 The International Court of Justice
6.3 European Courts
6.3.1 The Court System of the European Union
6.3.2 The European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg
6.4 Other International Courts
6.5 International Criminal Court
6.6 Courts Generated by a Particular Situation
6.6.1 The Post-World War II Courts: Nuremburg and Tokyo Trials
6.6.2 International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
6.6.3 International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia : http://www.icty.org/
6.6.4 Iran-US Claims Tribunal
6.6.5 Domestic Courts
6.6.6 Other Dispute Resolution Institutions
6.7 Secondary Materials
7 International Organizations
7.1 United Nations
7.2 World Trade Organization (ex-GATT)
7.3 European Union
7.4 Council of Europe
7.5 MERCOSUR
8 Comparative Law Basics
8.1 Other Useful Websites
9 Networking

"The American Society of International Law (ASIL) is probably the most respected organization on the study of international law. ASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950. The Society's 4,000 members from nearly 100 nations include attorneys, academics, corporate counsel, judges, representatives of governments and nongovernmental organizations, international civil servants, students and others interested in international law." Saskia I. Melhorn

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Subjects (number of articles)
Air law and law of outer space (31)
Diplomacy and consular relations (54)
Foreign relations (110)
History of international law (97)
Human rights (230)
Immunities (18)
Individuals and non-state actors (74)
International co-operation (182)
International courts and tribunals (63)
International criminal law (54)
International economic law and relations (231)
International environmental law (105)
International humanitarian law (91)
International organizations: general aspects (36)
International procedural law (50)
International responsibility (78)
Law of the sea (169)
Law of treaties (58)
Procedural law in international organizations (19)
Regional organizations, institutions and developments (162)
Relationship between international and domestic law (25)
Settlement of disputes (51)
Sources, foundations and principles of international law (166)
Statehood, jurisdiction of states, organs of states (94)
Subjects of international law (8)
Territory (133)
Theories of international law (18)
Universal international organizations and institutions (132)
Use of force, war, peace and neutrality (278)

See online catalog for earlier editions. The UMKC Law Library has two copies of the 1955 and 1948 editions. The UMKC main library holds the 1937 edition in the Roobot. The 1920-21 and 1912 editions are available online through the subscription database, Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926.

Sources of the law -- The relation of municipal and international law -- Subjects of the law -- Incidence and continuity of statehood -- Recognition of states and governments -- Territorial sovereignty -- The creation and transfer of territorial sovereignty -- Status of territory : further problems -- Territorial sea, contiguous zones, and exclusive economic zones -- The continental shelf : delimitation of shelf areas and exclusive economic zones -- The regime of the high seas -- Common amenities and co-operation in the use of resources -- Legal aspects of the protection of the environment -- Sovereignty and equality of states -- Jurisdictional competence -- Privileges and immunities of foreign states -- Diplomatic and consular relations -- Reservations from territorial sovereignty -- The relations of nationality -- Some rules of attribution : corporations and specific assets -- The responsibility of states -- The admissibility of state claims.
A system of multilateral public order : some incidents of illegality and the concept of Jus Cogens -- Injury to the persons and property of aliens on state territory -- The protection of individuals and groups : human rights and self-determination -- International criminal justice -- The law of treaties -- Other transactions including agency and representation -- State succession -- Other cases of transmission of rights and duties -- International organizations -- The judicial settlement of international disputes -- The use or threat of force by states.