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International Law Books – Pics of the Week

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This week the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law is taking place in Washington, D.C.  Peter wrote about attending the conference a couple of years ago.  Several of our staff members are attending various seminars, where they will learn about the latest developments in international law from scholars and practitioners from all over the world.  I thought this would be a great occasion to highlight, through photos, the Law Library’s amazing collection of international law materials held in the closed stacks in the sub-basement of the Madison Building.

International Law stacksFirst, to give you some idea of scale, here is the aisle where many of the books are kept.  On the right side as you look at the picture are mainly secondary resources: books and commentaries written about international law.  On the left side there are primary sources, including materials related to international arbitration cases and collections of treaties from a number of countries.  The opposite sides of each of these rows also hold international law materials, including treaties and cases involving the U.S.

Below are examples of materials from different parts of this collection.International Law - JapaneseInternational law books

To the left, we have copies of Brierly’s Law of Nations in different languages, along with various editions of Brownlie’s Principles of International Law.  AboveNorway US Arbitration are texts on international law in Japanese.

Below, these books contain the U.S. arguments and the Norway’s counter case in the Norway-U.S. arbitration under a 1921 special agreement.

The books pictured below contain documents related to the U.S. “Alabama claims