SOME BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS OF PUBLIC
INTERNATIONAL LAW
by Maxwell Cohen*
Scholarship and practical lawyership in the field of public international
law always have faced a rather paradoxical situation in the matter of source
materials. On the one hand there is a richness of texts, monographs and
journals, the large increase in the availability of evidence concerning state
practice and all of this in at least five or six major languages that have long
been concerned with publication of international legal materials – English,
French, German, Spanish, Italian and, more recently, Russian. On the other
hand, there is the difficulty of collecting a major library under modem condi-
tions due to the vast proliferation of textual and journal publications, to the
out-of-print status of many important early and even recent works and, finally,
to the linguistic problems faced by scholars and practitioners with respect not
only to some of the major languages but also because of the increasing number
of useful works and articles to be found among the minor.
Moreover, viewed from another aspect, public international
law may be
considered to be as -broad a field as the totality of juridical relations arising in
the international order or in municipal law as reflecting that order; or, it may
be regarded by way of contrast, as a doctrinally limited area of legal studies
both on its substantive and procedural side. Indeed, when any pretensions are
made by international lawyers, there is often the criticism of the doctrinal
shallowness of their field evidenced by the fact that it seems possible to
encompass the whole of their subject matter within the covers of a single
volume, or at the most, two, if there is to be added the Laws of War, brought
up to date.’
In a sense both statements have a good deal of merit. For there can be no
doubt that the richness and variety of contemporary international law writings
suggest a global concern in many languages and a high degree of professional
skill applied to the problems of the international legal order as well as to the
relations of municipal law to that order. At the same time it remains interesting,
perhaps even striking, to recognize the doctrinal limits that still seem to
circumscribe claims to speculative or empirical development that may be made
on behalf of international law. If the -test applied is, for example, the immense
analytical and historical scholarship to be found in civil law or common law then
international law by comparison doubtless suffers in the shadow of that vast
array of jural experience at the municipal level. The variety of situations
encompassed, the conceptual challenges presented by the complex fabric of
*Professor of Law, McGill University.
‘E.g. Oppenheim – Lauterpacht (8th ed.) 2 vols.; Hyde, Internuational Law Chiefly
as Interpreted and Applied by the United States (2 vols.).
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private and public law -transactions in the municipal order has created neces-
sarily over the past 2000 years in Western society a web of juridical
“completeness” that quite far exceeds what may be observed in the doctrinal
coverage -by law in the international order. Nor does the doctrine of “non
liquet” merely -by its gratuitous existence help to overcome
the native
deficiencies in international legal development that are due it seems to the
as yet incomplete scope of opportunities for its application in comparison
with the range of problems presented and resolved by municipal law.
Of course, it may be argued as Lauterpacht did in his classical statement
of the situation, in 1933,2 that the difference between “justiciable” and “non-
justiciable” disputes is a difference in perspective or in the practical needs of
the situation rather than the dearth per se of rules with which to resolve
disputes between ‘states once they are converted into legal issues and presented
for a juridical solution.
However international law may ‘be viewed, therefore, either as doctrinally
imperfect and relatively undeveloped as compared with municipal law, or as a
rich system whose full range of possibilities has yet to be truly explored and
applied, there remains the practical difficulty of the availability of materials for
use by scholars and by practitioners. Indeed, one of the earliest tasks presented
to the International Law ‘Commission, established by the General Assembly
of the United Nations in 1947, 3 was -to explore “way and means” of making
evidence of customary international law more readily available. 4 And among the
first studies and reports presented by the Commission was an examination of the
question of sources involving doctrinal texts, specific monographs, journals,
yearbooks, treaty and state practice collections, bibliographies, etc. 5
What ‘has been clear since the publication of this Teport, and indeed even
earlier as indicated above, is that it is no longer possible for a moderately
library of international law to keep abreast easily of the
comprehensive
outpourings of materials in the many languages involved.
In a special sense international law, through its development on the basis
of scholarship and state practice from many national sources and points of
view, became perhaps the earliest form of modern comparative law studies at
the public international level, of course, although inevitably private law concerns
and analogies ran through all such comparisons. Necessarily, the appearance of
speculative or empirically based writings in any of the major and minor
languages often inspired a national or regional point of view toward public
2Lauterpacht, The Function of Law in the International Community (1933).
3Resolution 174 (II); Off. Records Gen. Ass. Second Sess., 1947, p. 105.
4Statute of the Commission, Art. 24; Memorandum of the Secretary General, Ways
and Means of Making the Evidence of Customary International Law More Readily
(1949) A/CN.4/6; Report of the International Law Commission, First
Available,
Session (1949) A/925, pp. 5-6.
-Report of the International Law Commission, Second Session,
(1950) A/1316,
pp. 4-10.
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international law. Indirectly -this contributed to the emergence of something
amounting to a comparative or “diversified” international law in contrast with
assumptions of universality which dominated much of the classical approaches
to doctrinal explanation in the early period of international legal scholarship.
Today there can be no illusions about the tension between unity and diversity
in public international law.6 Indeed, there is a new richness to be cultivated
perhaps in the recognition of the sources of diversity and in the exploration of
the different cultures out of which new states are emerging to take their place
in and have their views about the family of nations. They may bring with
them, if not today, -then tomorrow, aspects of special legal traditions which
may have –
an influence on the attitude
of these states toward the traditional doctrines of public international law.
and in some cases already do have –
For all of these reasons the problem of maintaining some continued and
rapid view of the diverse practical and scholarly productions from these many
states and societies becomes even more urgent at this time than perhaps ever
before. Yet the international lawyer has been ill-equipped to deal with these
contemporary materials unless he had available to him a highly developed
library, mastered the several major languages concerned, and finally, had
available to him a translation service for the minor tongues.
Now such facilities, obviously, cannot be provided except in the great centers;
while the quniqua-lingual international lawyer –
to whose equipment now
must be added Russian and some day soon, Chinese –
is surely the exception
rather than the rule. This kind of situation, of course, is not unique to the
trans-national materials are
study of international
involved, it poses technical difficulties which the medical, ‘biological or physical
sciences have dealt with for two or three generations by means of a system of
abstracts which, translated into the English language or into any other major
language of publication, summarizes either all or the best papers and journal
articles in the field at fixed periods of time.
law. Indeed, wherever
There is no doubt that the moment for such a step in the field of public
international law and perhaps in comparative law, generally, is at hand. Indeed,
already UNESCO has been publishing abstracts of political science papers with
level and detail to be found in these
some success although the technical
summaries, is less than the professional lawyer would require in digests prepared
for him while the range of selection is not as complete as the highest technical
needs would demand.
When, in 1958, the Thirteenth General Assembly proposed that the Secretary-
General study the publication of a Juridical Yearbook, to be published by
the United Nations, the main ideas of such a proposal, put forward again at
6Cohen, From University to Unity: International Law in a Bipolar World (1959)
Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, pp. 78-107.
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the need
to suggest
the Fourteenth Assembly, dealt largely with documents of legal interest arising
out of U.N. affairs, original articles on international law and possibly a
section on bibliography.7 After a good deal of debate in the Sixth Committee
these proposals were re-examined and were
at the Fourteenth Session,
commented on by a study prepared on behalf of the Secretariat itself and
to the Juridical Yearbook was proposed and adopted.
a new approach
to have
The Canadian contribution here was
published somewhere in the world, possibly by the United Nations, abstracts
of all, or of the most important articles concerned with public international
languages and from all existing journals and yearbooks.8
law from all
Such a summary does not now exist and its absence causes considerable dif-
ficulty for research, while of course it prevents great numbers of scholars and
foreign offices and others interested from having available to them knowledge
about publications throughout the world within recent periods. The Canadian
proposal was incorporated into the survey presently being made by
the
Secretariat which will lead to the assembly of a “model dummy” and the
Secretariat will determine the cost of a system of abstracts, the editorial
arrangements and the extent of the material to be summarized. A report, with
the “dummy”, will ‘be given to the Fifteenth General Assembly and if the costs
are manageable, there is a strong possibility that such a program of publishing
abstracts will be undertaken under the auspices of the United Nations and
made a part of the Juridical Yearbook, which may include also important legal
documents and, possibly, a useful, running bibliography.
How extentive the present publication of journals and yearbooks has
become and how complex are the national and international bibliographical
and indexing services, may be seen from the documents prepared for use
-by the Canadian Delegation and presented to the Sixth Committee, through
the good offices of the Harvard Law School Library, International Legal
Studies Section (Appendix). Harvard has one of the three or four best
law libraries in the world. For sheer comprehensiveness in almost every field of
legal interest, it probably has no peers beyond perhaps the Library of Congress
and the Biblioth~que Nationale in Paris. Yet when this document was prepared
in October 1959 for use ‘by the Canadian Delegation it omitted a yearbook
published in Czechoslovakia and it did not refer in its bibliographies to the
bibliographical service provided by the Netherlands International Law Review.
It will be observed that out of 22 listed annuals and yearbooks, 11 are
exclusively devoted to Public International Law. Similarly out of 88 periodicals
in all languages 35 are solely concerned with international law; a quick glance
will show the preponderance of English and French publications and the
substantial number of Spanish language periodicals.
7Question of the Publication of a United Nations Juridical Yearbook (1959) A/4151.
sSee Statement of Canadian Delegate to the Sixth Committee Nov. 25, 1959.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS
If the United Nations publishes, in due course, a juridical yearbook –
itself to be printed in at least French and English – with abstracts from the
various periodicals and yearbooks listed in the following Appendix, a very
considerable step will have been taken toward making available a great deal
of information about contemporary international
in almost
every relevant language.
law scholarship
APPENDIX
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL LIBRARY
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES
I – Yearbooks and Journals Devoted Exclusively
Or Partly to Public International Law
A. YEARBOOKS AND ANNUALS
“American Society of International Law. Proceedings,
1907-
. New
York, 1908-
‘::Annuaire franqais de droit international,
tional de la Recherche Scientifique, 1955-
Annual Review of U.N. Affairs, 1949-
York, New York University Press, 1950-
Anuario juridico interamericano, 1948-
Union, 1949-
1955-
. Paris, Centre Na-
. Ed. by Clyde Eagleton. New
. Washington, Pan American
. London, Royal
International Law, 1920-
*British Yearbook of
Institute of International Affairs, 1920-
*European Yearbook. The Hague, Nijhoff, 1955-
*The Grotius Society. Transactions. London, 1916-
*Hague. Academy of International Law. Recueil des cours, 1923-
Leyde, 1925-
*Institute of International Law. Annuaire, 1877-
diques et sociologiques, 1877-
International Bar Association. Conference Reports, 1950-
. Bdle, Editions juri-
. The
Hague, Nijhoff, 1952-
International Court of Justice. Yearbook, 1946-. The Hague, 1949-
International Law Association. Conference Reports, 1873-
1908-
. London,
*Exclusively Public International Law.
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.
. Zuerich,
(Glttingen)
. New York,
Tokyo, Inter-
. New York, 1947-
*Jahrbuch fuer internationales Recht, 1948-
*The Japanese Annual of International Law, 1957-
national Law Association, Japan branch, 1957-
*Schweizerisches Jahrbuch fuer internationales Recht, 1944-
Schweizerische Vereinigung fuer internationales Recht, 1944-
U.N. International Law Commission. Yearbook, 1949-
1956-
U.N. Yearbook, 1946-
The U.S. in World Affairs, 1931-
Relations, 1932-
*World Polity: A Yearbook of Studies in International Law and Organiz-
ation. Washington, Georgetown University, Institute of World Polity.,
1957-
Yearbook of International Organizations, 1948-
Organizations Internationales, 1948-
Yearbook of World Affairs, 1947-
World Affairs,, 1947-
Studie za mezinarodno pravo.
. New York, Council on Foreign
. London, London Institute of
. Bruselles, Union des
(Prague)
B. PERIODICALS
American Journal of Comperative Law. 1952-
*American Journal of International Law. 1907-
Annales de droit et de sciences politiques. 1932-
Ann6e politique et 6conomique. 1947-
*Archiv des Voelkerrechts. 1948-
*Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Direito Internacional. 1945-
(Tiibingen)
(Washington, D.C.)
.
(Rio de Janeiro)
Archiv fuer Rechts-und Sozialphilosphie. 1907-
Boletin del instituto de Derecho Comparado de M6xico. 1948-
The British Survey. 1939-
*Bulletin de droit des gens. 1952-
*Casopis pro mezinarodni pravo. 1957-
.
Chronique de politiques itrangers. 1948-
Columbia Law Review. 1901-
*La comuniti internazionale. 1946-
Department of State Bulletin. 1939-
*Diritto internazionale. 1937-
(Bruxelles)
(Padova)
(Milano)
(Praha)
.
.
.
*Exclusively Public International Law.
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. From 1922 to 1930, Journal of the
. From 1896 to
1922-
Europa – Archiv. 1946-
Foreign Affairs. 1922-
Foreign Policy Bulletin. 1921-
Die Friedens-warte. 1903-
Harvard Law Review. 1887-
Inter-American Law Review. 1959-
International Affairs.
British Institute of International Affairs.
International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 1896-
1951, Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation.
International Conciliation. 1907-
*International Journal. 1946-
*International Organization. 1947-
International Relations. 1954-
Internationale ‘spectator. 1948-
*Internationales Recht und Diplomatie. 1959-
,Journal du droit international. 1874-
The Journal of Asian Studies. 1941-
Eastern quarterly.
Journal of International Affairs. 1947-
“‘The Journal of International Law and Diplomacy (Japan), 1902-
(Hamburg)
(Toronto)
(Boston)
(Paris)
.
.
.
From 1941 to 1956 The Far
(Tokyo).
The Journal of Modem History. 1929-
Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth. 1920-
‘Jugoslovenska
.1Jus gentium. 1949-
revija za medunarodno pravo. 1954-
(Roma)
.
.
(Beograd)
1922-
(Moskva)
Medunarodni problemi. 1949-
*Mezhdunarodnaia Zhizn’.
Michigan Law Review. 1902-
*Nederlands Tijdschrift voor internationaal Recht. 1953-
New Times. 1945-
*Nordisk tidsskrift for international ret. 1930-
sinki, Reykjavik, Oslo, Uppsala)
*Oesterreichische Hefte fuer die Praxis des internationalen und auslan-
dischen Rechts. 1956-
Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer oeffentliches Recht, 1914-
Pacific Affairs. 1928-
(K]jbenhavn. Hel-
(Leiden)
(Wien)
.
.
.
*Exclusively Public International Law.
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Politique &rang~re. 1936-
Les problmes de l’Europe. 1958-
Recht der internationalen Wirtschaft. 1954-
Report on Foreign Affairs. 1949-
Research
*Revista de derecho internacional. 1922-
*Revista de derecho
(Rosario, Argentina).
(Recherches).
1952-
.
internacional y ciencias diplomiticas. 1949-
(Havana)
Internacional.
(Quito)
. From 1908
.(Beirut)
.
(Guatenmala)
(Madrid)
(Lima)
]a Asociaci6n Guatemalteca de Derecho
*Revista de
1954-
Revista del Instituto de Derecho Comparado. 1953-
*Revista del Instituto Ecuatoriano de Derecho Internacional.
1954-
*Revista espafiola de derecho internacional. 1948-
*Revista peruana de derecho
internacional. 1941-
Revue critique de droit international priv6. 1905-
*Revue de droit international. 1923-
(Gen ve)
*Revue de droit international et de droit compar6. 1908-
to 1939. Revue de l’Institut de droit compar6
(Bruxelles)
*Revue de droit international pour le moyen-orient. 1951-
*Revue d’histoire diplomatique. 1887-
Revue de science criminelle et de droit p6nal compar6. 1936-
Revue du droit public. 1894-
*Revue 6gyptienne de droit international. 1945-
Revue g~n6rale de l’air. 1932-
*Revue g6n~rale de droit international public, 1894-
*Revue hell6nique de droit international. 1948-
Revue internationale de criminologie et de police technique. 1947-
Revue internationale de droit compar& 1949-
Revue internationale de droit p6nal. 1924-
Revue internationale de ]a propri&6 industrielle et artistique. 1926-
Revue intemationale du droit d’auteur. 1953-
*Revue internationale du droit des gens. 1936-
*Rivista di diritto internazionale. 1906-
Rivista di studi politici intemazionali. 1934-
*Sprawy miedzynarodowe. 1948-
.
(Ronma)
(Warszawa)
.
(Athanes)
.
(Cairo)
.
(Paris)
.
(Paris)
.
.
(Paris)
*Exdusivey Public International Law.
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROBLEMS
Tulane Law Review. 1926-
Utrikespolitik. 1946-
Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeschichte. 1953-
World Affairs Quarterly. 1930-
World Politics. 1948.
Yale Law Journal. 1891-
*Zeitschrift fuer auslaendisches oeffentliches Recht und Voelkerrecht.
1929-
Zeitschrift fuer auslaendisches und internationales Privatrecht. 1927-
Zeitschrift fuer vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft. 1878-
(Heidelberg)
.
II –
Bibliographies and Bibliographical Services in the Field of
Public International Law and Organization
A. NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES
National bibliographies appear periodically in the majority of countries.
They contain a complete list of books (monographs) published within the
country for a given period of time and in all subject fields. International law
and related subjects are of course included. A subject approach is provided
and makes it possible to use these general bibliographies to keep up with the
literature of any subject area.
The Cumulative Book Index issued monthly by the H. W. Wilson Co.
is such a general bibliography for all book material published in the English
language anywhere in the world and for books in any language published in
the United States.
The French equivalent of the CBI is the monthly Biblio, published by
Hachette. It covers all French publications issued anywhere in the world and
all publications issued in France.
Die deutsche Bibliographie lists all books in German published anywhere
in the world and all books issued in Germany. It appears weekly.
Books published in the Soviet Union are listed in Knizhnaia letopis, -which
appears weekly. A complete list of other national bibliographies is available
in the ,Library of Congress publication entitled Current National Bibliographies
(Washington, 1955).
B.
‘INDEXING SERVICES
No index speoifically devoted to the field of international law is available.
However, the following more general indexes cover the subject field within
their stated scope:
*Exclusively Public International Law.
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1. Index to Legal Periodicals (H. W. Wilson, New York, monthly) lists
the contents of international law journals published in the United States.
2. Public Affairs Information Service (New York, weekly) analyses the
contents of books, documents, pamphlets, and articles in more than 1,000
periodicals in the fields of political science, government, and related
subjects.
International Political Science Abstracts (Oxford, Blackwell, quarterly)
gives not only citations but brief descriptive annotations for each item.
(Paris, UNESCO,
annual) lists books and periodical articles from many countries of the
world.
4. International Bibliography of Political Science
3.
5. Subject Index to Periodicals (London, Library Association, annual)
indexes about 300 British and American periodicals. It concentrates,
however, on the more popular magazines and its usefulness to inter-
national law is therefore limited.
6. International Index
is
limited to
periodicals in the English language and is also particularly directed to
a popular user.
(New York, Wilson, quarterly)
7. Dizionario bibliografico delle reviste giuridiche italiane is an annual
indexed to Italian legal periodicals and analyzes, therefore, the contents
of international law journals.
8. The Letopis shurnalnikh statei analyzes the contents of Soviet periodical
literature, including the field of law, on a current basis.
9. Two German indexing services are particularly important for their broad
coverage: the Bibliographie der deutschen Zeitschriftenliteratur indexes
a large number of German periodicals, transactions, yearbooks and other
collected works in all subject fields including law; the Bibliographie der
fremdsprachigen Zeitschriftenliteratur is a world wide list indexing about
1,400 periodicals in the principal non-German languages; is particularly
useful for French and ‘Spanish material because of the lack of indexes
in those countries.
10. The Bibliografija Jugoslavije (quarterly) is a subject classified index to
about 300 Yugoslav periodicals in all fields. It is issued in series; Series
A covers social sciences including law. Similar indexing services have
begun to appear in other countries of Eastern Europe and are available
either in book form or on cards.
11. The Council of Europe indexes articles received in its library under the
title Research. The item is coming out bi-monthly and includes sections
on international political relations, foreign policy, political organization
of Europe and other international organizations.
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12. The European Parliamentary Assembly
issues a quarterly classified
index of periodicals and books on many subjects related to international
law.
13. Most international organizations issue indexes to their own publications;
e.g., the U. N. Documents Index, the Index of I.C.A.O. Publications, etc.
‘C. TREATISES
Almost any treatise on international law includes a bibliography covering
books, articles and cases. Three of such treatises are listed here as examples:
Manley 0. Hudson’s Cases and Other Materials on International Law
(3rd ed.), St. Paul, West, 1951, contains “a selected library of international
law” on pages xxxi-xliii.
L. Oppenheim’s International Law (8th ed.), London, Longman’s Green,
1955, contains an extensive bibliography on pages 99-114.
Georg Scfrwarzenburger’s International Law (3rd ed.), London, Stevens,
1957, has a “selected bibliography” in vol. 1, pages 683-775.
{D. SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Many bibliographies of international
law in general or of its individual
aspects are available, and only a selection can be listed here.
The Catalogue of the Peace Palace Library at the Hague (3rd ed., 1937,
plus supplements) remains one of the most complete bibliographies of the field.
Karl ‘Strupp’s Bibliographie du droit des gens et des relations internationale’
(Leyde, 1938) is distinguished by its long evaluative annotations.
An important list of German writings on international law was published
by the University of Hamburg in 1952 under the title Bibliographie des
deutschen Schrifttums ueber Volkerrechts und auslaendisches oeffentliches Recht.
The Peace Palace Library began in 1953 to publish bibliographies in various
fields of -international law. Three such titles are available at present: Funda-
mentals of Public International Law (1953), Recognition in International Law
(1954), and Immunities in International Law (1955).
The United Nations Library in New York has compiled a number of
significant bibliographies on international organizations; e.g., a Bibliography
of the Charter of the United Nations (1955, Doc. ST/LIB/SER.B/3) and
Selected Bibliography of the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations
(1949, Doc. ST/LIB/SER.B/1).
The
Two other bibliographies
International Labor Organization Library published
in 1954 a
Bibliography of the International Labor Organization (Geneva, supplements.)
in book form come to mind: Hans Aufricht’s
World Organization (7th ed., Woodrow Wilson Memorial Library, New York,
1946), and W. C. Rogers’ International Administration (,Chicago, 1945).
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In the special field of air law an important annual bibliography has been
published since 1957 by Eugene Pepin under the title Bibliography of Air
Law and Related Problems.
Many specialized bibliographies are published by the United Nations, its
various departments, the specialized agencies and other international organiza-
tions. Two examples are given below:
United Nations, Dept. of Security Council Affairs, An International
Bibliography on Atomic Energy. (New York, 1953-
).
‘European -Coal and Steel Community, Le March6 Commun (Luxemburg,
1957-
).
UNESCO has been issuing a series of Bibliographies in Social Sciences
which often deal with the international law problems.
Many ‘bibliographies appear in the field of international relations, which,
however, lies outside the subject area of international law proper.
Attention is called also to the many bibliographies issued by the Council
on Foreign Relations in New York.
E. LIBRARY ACCESSIONS LISTS
Many of the large libraries of international organizations publish regularly
extensive lists of their accessions; in a few instances periodical articles and
articles
in collections are analyzed. Several such publications have been
mentioned earlier under the heading “Indexes”.
The two United Nations libraries in New York and in Geneva issue two
monthly publications each, listing both their book and periodical acquisitions.
1. New Publications in the United Nations Headquarters Library is a
monthly list of recent books, periodicals, and newspapers added to the
library.
2. The List of Selected Articles (United Nations Library, New York)
is a selection of current periodical literature on the work of the United
Nat-ions and the specialized agencies. Articles appearing in United
Nations publications are not included because they are listed in the
U.N. Documents Index.
3. The Monthly List of Books Catalogued in the Library of the United
Nations (Geneva) forms a selected list of works relating to questions
studied by the organs of the United Nations.
4. The Monthly List of Selected Articles (U.N. Library, Geneva) indexes
about 2,300 periodicals in the field of politics, law, economics, finance,
and related subjects.
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5-6.
Similar accessions lists are published by:
International Labor Office Library (Geneva, monthly) under the titles
Additions to the Library, which covers books, and International Labor
Documentation, (weekly), which includes periodical articles.
7-8. The Joint Library of the International Monetary Fund and the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Washington,
D.’C.) under the titles Recent Additions and Recent Periodical Articles
(both monthly).
9. The World Health Organization
(Geneva) under
the title Recent
Acquisitions.
10. The Weekly Accessions List of the United States Department of State
is also useful as a finding list for new publications in international law.
F.
YEARBOOKS AND ANNUALS
The majority of these publications contain bibliographical references. Only
those of more than routine interest are included here.
1. Annuaire frangaise de droit international. Each volume of this annual
includes a “critical bibliography” of books with evaluative annotations;
a list of “publications received” with brief descriptive annotations; a
“systematic bibliography” of books and articles relating -to public inter-
national law in the French language, which is arranged by subject; and
a “chronological index” of documents of interest to international law
which have appeared in the Documentation frangaise in the course of a
given year.
2. The European Yearbook (published by the Council of Europe) -includes
an extensive bibliographical section, provided in part with lengthy annota-
tions. Periodical and pamphlet materials relating to European integration
are included.
3. The Annual of the Institute of International Law lists in each volume
the books and articles published by its members and associates.
4. The International Court of Justice Yearbook contains a bibliography of
documents of the Court and of books and articles about the Court.
G. PERIODIcALS
Many international
law journals provide a bibliographic or abstracting
service in the field. Among the more important services of this kind are:
1. The American Journal of International Law reprints and comments on
“judicial decisions involving questions of international law”, contains
a large number of book reviews, lists books received by the sponsoring
society, and gives titles of articles which have appeared in the more
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important law journals of many countries (including reviews devoted to
domestic law). The supplement of the Journal reprints important docu-
ments and treaties.
2. Ca.sopis pro mezinarodni pravo (Prague) contains abstracts of articles
in the leading East European and other law reviews.
3. Foreign Affairs carries briefly annotated lists of ‘books, pamphlets, and
documents in the field of international relations.
4. International Affairs (London) contains a large number of book reviews
5.
arranged by subject and geographical area.
International Organization carries -in each issue a selected bibliography
of secondary materials on the United Nations, its agencies, and on regional
organizations; both books and periodical articles are included.
6. The Jugoslovenska revija za medunarodno pravo has an extensive biblio-
graphy of international law covering both books and periodical articles,
particularly strong in East European items.
7. The Revista de derecho internacional y ciencias diplon6ticas reprints
important legislation and court decisions, and carries an extensive review
section covering both books and periodical articles.
8. The Revista espaiiola de derecho internacional has a particularly com-
prehensive section reviewing articles which have appeared in international
and domestic law periodicals.
9. The Remie gingrale de droit international public contains a list of treaties
to which France is a party, an extensive bibliography, and texts of
important documents.
10. The Rivista di diritto internazionale reprints important decisions and
texts of foreign legislation in the field of international law and contains
book reviews and abstracts of periodical articles.
11. The Zeitschrift fuer auslaendisches oeffentliches Recht und Voelkerrecht
contains -texts of important documents and court decisions, survey
articles on German International law jurisprudence, and extensive book
reviews. Its abstracting service of periodicals (international, as well as
is the most complete of all the reviews listed earlier.
domestic law)
Finally the journal carries a comprehensive classified bibliography of
the
books,
international law field.
international organization documents and pamphlets
in
12. Netherlands Int. Law Review carries a continuing bibliography as a
quarterly service.
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PLANNED SERVICES
1. The American Association of Law Libraries will publish, under a Ford
Foundation grant, an Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, beginning
early in 1960. The Index is to be prepared at the Institute for Advanced
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Legal Studies, University of London, under the general editorship of
Mr. K. Howard Drake, Secretary and Librarian of the Institute. It will
be issued quarterly with periodic cumulations. The Index is to cover
approximately 250 legal periodicals published in all major countries of
of the world and including those of international law. It will be available
on an annual subscription basis. Its arrangement will be alphabetical by
subject.
2. A card index is presently being prepared and maintained at the Harvard
Law Library in connection with reference service for the International
Legal Studies program. This index analyzes all secondary materials
(books, pamphlets, periodical avioles, collections, and Festschrifte,
received by .the Harvard Law Library. It is world-wide in scope and
covers both the domestic and the international law fields.
