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Researching Treaties
Where will
I find the text of treaties to which the UK is not a party?
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Free web sources
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UN Treaty Series online -
http://treaties.un.org/Pages/Home.aspx?lang=en
- this contains a collection of treaties and
international agreements registered or filed and
recorded with and published by the Secretariat
since 1946. It also includes a collection of
treaties and subsequent treaty actions
registered with and published by the Secretariat
of the League of Nations between 1920 -1944.
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Flare Index to Treaties -
http://ials.sas.ac.uk/treatyindex.htm
- this site has information on over 1,500 of the
most significant multilateral treaties. Each
entry includes information about where the full
text of each treaty can be found in print with
live links to electronic versions on the
internet, where available. The index covers
treaties concluded between 1856 and the present.
Searching can be done using subject keywords,
words from the official or popular title, the
reference number allocated to a treaty by either
the Council of Europe or the International
Labour Organization, the date on which the
treaty was concluded (either the precise date or
just the year), or the place where the treaty
was concluded.
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Websites of international organisations - some
organisations act as depositaries or
secretariats for certain multilateral treaties
e.g. Hague Conference on International Law, WIPO
etc.
National websites
Hard copy sources
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Multilateral Treaties: Index and Current Status
by Bowman and Harris (1984, supplement 1993) for
multilateral treaties whether UK is a party or
not. Command Paper numbers and other citations
are given. Inner Temple, Lincolns Inn and Gray's
Inn Libraries have this work.
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Multilateral Treaty Calendar by Wiktor, 1648
-1995 - details are given as to where the
printed text can be found. Inner Temple and
Lincoln's Inn Libraries have this book.
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UN Treaty Series - all treaties made by members
of the UN have to be registered with the UN
Secretariat and published by it. Middle Temple
Library has the UN Treaty Series in hard copy.
There are chronological and alphabetical indexes
to this.
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League of Nations Treaty Series 1920-1946 -
predecessor to the UN Treaty Series. Middle
Temple Library has this.
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International Legal Materials - this journal
contains the texts of selected treaties. Inner
Temple and Gray's Inn Libraries have this
series, 1962 onwards.
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