The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, the current Librarian-in-Residence at the Law Library of Congress. Louis has authored several blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including New Acquisition: The Trial of Governor Picton, A Case of Torture in Trinidad, Research Guides in Focus – Municipal Codes: A Beginner’s Guide, and Research Guides in Focus – Neighbor Law: A Beginner’s Guide.
The Law Library of Congress is happy to announce one of our most recently published research guides, Public International Law: A Beginner’s Guide. This research guide focuses on the law surrounding the interactions among nations, or public international law. Conceptually, public international law derives from various “sources of law,” defined mainly by the Statute of the International Court of Justice and, in the United States, the Restatement of the Law, Third: Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Generally, the sources are treaties, international custom, general principles of law, and judicial decisions and scholarly teachings. Our latest research guide expands upon the main sources of international law and provides strategies and resources to help researchers find their way through complex subject areas.