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Researching International Human Rights Law & Policy

Researching International Human Rights Law & Policy. Effective Tools & Techniques. Lyonette Louis-Jacques. Foreign and International Law Librarian & Lecturer in Law, D’Angelo Law Library, The University of Chicago Law School, Keystone, November 5, 2014. Welcome!.

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Researching International Human Rights Law & Policy

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  1. Researching International Human Rights Law & Policy Effective Tools & Techniques Lyonette Louis-Jacques Foreign and International Law Librarian & Lecturer in Law, D’Angelo Law Library, The University of Chicago Law School, Keystone, November 5, 2014

  2. Welcome! Lyonette “Lyo” Louis-Jacques

  3. Research Techniques • Plan your research strategy – what is the deliverable, desired outcome? • Time, Cost, and Access • Get background on human rights (including asking people) • Research challenges – locating foreign case-law, translation issues, myriad UN documents and determining level of authority, etc. • Consider search terms (synonyms, languages, connectors) • The language/vocabulary of human rights • Think in different dimensions (3D) • U.S. (“Bringing Human Rights Home”) • Country, region • Race, ethnicity, gender identity, class/status • Data visualization • Numbers • Stories • Google? Google!

  4. Domestic Violence Jessica Lenahan(Gonzales) at the IACHR

  5. Seeking Justice for Jessica • “[W]hat can we do about the injustice of intimate partner abuse? More than 10 years ago [in 1999], Jessica Lenahan faced just that question when the police failed to respond to her pleas for help, resulting in the deaths of her three children. Following that tragedy, she took the issue of police response to domestic violence to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that she had no constitutional right to enforcement of her restraining order, and then to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).” – ACLU, Oct. 24, 2011

  6. Right to Education

  7. Child Migrants Maria Woltjen http://theyoungcenter.org/

  8. Omar Khadr “Child in Armed Conflict”

  9. Witches & Sorcerers

  10. Key Tools • Other documents • Books • Journal articles • News & current awareness • Data, images, stories • “People” resources • Background Sources • Research guides • Treaties & other international instruments • Case-law (international and national)

  11. Quick Background on Human Rights Study Supps. Oxford Bibliographies Wikipedia***

  12. Research Guides General Topical UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human RightsHuman Rights IssuesHealth, Women, Violence, Police… EISIL (American Society of International Law, Electronic Information System for International Law)

  13. Guides to Regional Systems • Inter-American System of Human Rights (Ellen Schaffer, American University, LibGuide, 2014) • The Inter-American System of Human Rights: A Research Guide (Cecilia Cristina Naddeo, GlobaLex, 2010) • The European Human Rights System (James W. Hart, GlobaLex, 2011)

  14. Human Rights System/Regimes

  15. Cases General Topical/Keyword Global Health & Human Rights Database Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR Project) Database on HRC Decisions (Centre for Civil and Political Rights) Case-Law Database (ESCR-Net) WorldLII(International Decisions – e.g. IACtHR) SIM Case-Law Research System**** • IGO’s website • ECHR HUDOC Database • IACtHR / IACHR • UN OHCHR • ORIL: Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law Module • ORIL: Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) • Justis’ International Law Reports (ILR) • UMN Human Rights Library

  16. Treaties & Other HR Instruments http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

  17. Other Documents Google***

  18. Books

  19. Lawyering & Advocacy Books and other IHR lawyering resources

  20. Journal Articles http://scholar.google.com/

  21. News & Current Awareness

  22. Twitter

  23. Data, Images, Stories From ericposner.com

  24. “People” Resources

  25. Ask A Librarian! http://guides.lib.uchicago.edu/subjectguides

  26. IHR Research & Advocacy Opportunities http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/page/curriculum

  27. The End! Questions or Comments? Lyonette Louis-Jacques llou@uchicago.edu http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/index.html

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