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REQUIRED TEXT

DAVID HUNTER, JAMES SALZMAN, AND DURWARD ZAELKE, INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY, 2d Edition (2002).

THE TEXT WEB.

The text is extensively supplemented by a companion Web site. Follow the link in the panel to the left.

It is very strongly recommended that students in this course get a special, reduced-rate subscription to the NEW YORK TIMES, or perhaps use the Web edition. Daily hard copies of the paper for delivery to a lock box on campus can be ordered at greatly reduced rates on the subscription forms available from the main office of the Department of Political Science, 1246 Social Sciences.

Specific readings for each week's work will be assigned each week by e-mail. General assignments are noted on the Course in Detail page of the course web.

WEEK ONE READING ASSIGNMENT

Please read the following in the text book over the weekend and in
preparation for our class discussions, next week:

1. Skim chapters 1 and 2.

2. Read carefully, as a follow up to Wednesday's lecture, chapter 6,
pages 310-349 (on Custom, General Principles, and Judicial Decisions).

3. Read carefully, chapter 6, pages 272-309 (on the Treaty-Making
Process) and chapter 5, pages 217-241 (on the United Nations and
Administering Treaties).

INITIAL LIST OF ONLINE READING AND RESEARCH RESOURCES (from the King Hall Library)

Reproduced, below, is the contents of the Web page at the King Hall Law School Library showing foreign and international law gateway sites around the world.

Foreign and International Law Gateway Sites

Sites	Contents
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/ library/International_Resources/ foreign.htm	Cornell Law School's selective compilation of sites with very thorough annotations.
www.law.nyu.edu/library/ foreign-intl.index.html	New York University School of Law's collection of links includes compilations by legal topic.
www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/intl.html	This site authored by the University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library includes links to sites on human rights, war crimes, and international law journals.
http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/ forint/forintmain.html	Washburn University School of Law's web is one of the most comprehensive combining topics, countries and research aids in one alphabetical arrangement.
www.asil.org/resource/Home.htm	American Society of International Law's collection of research guides to electronic resources includes information on web, listservs, Lexis and Westlaw sources on various topics.
library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks/ default.htm	Kent Law School in Canterbury, England created this annotated list of links especially strong in the law of the United Kingdom.
www.law.ecel.uwa.edu.au/intlaw/	U. of W. Australia's web site includes some unique topic arrangements such as Antarctic and Indigenous Peoples.
www.findlaw.com/12international/ index.html	This very comprehensive collection put up by a commercial entity includes links to international news and embassy indexes.

Organizations

Sites	Contents
www.uia.org/website.htm www.library.nwu.edu.govpub/ resource/internat/igo.html	Directories
www.asil.org	American Society of International Law
www.icj-cij/org	International Court of Justice
www.nafta-sec-alena.org/ english/home.htm	North American Free Trade Agreement
www.oas.org	Organization of American States
www.oecd.org	Organization for Economic Cooperations and Development
http://www.unsystem.org/ http://www.un.org/	United Nations
www.unidroit.org	United Nations International Institute for the Unification of Private Law
www.wipo.org	World Intellectual Property Organization
www.wto.org	World Trade Organization

Foreign Countries

Comprehensive Sites

Sites	Contents
www.library.nwu.edu/govpub/ resource/internat/foreign.html	Foreign Governments
http://www.loc.gov/law/glin/GLINv1/	GLIN-Global Legal Information Network
www.uni-wuerzburg.de/law/index.html	Constitutions in English

Individual Countries

Sites	Contents
www.austlii.edu.au/ http://www.fed.gov.au/ scaleplus.law.gov.au/	Australia
http://canada.gc.ca/main_e.html http://www.parl.gc.ca/	Canada
http://europa.eu.int/ http://europa.eu.int/cj/en/index.htm http://www.echr.coe.int/	European Union Homepage European Ct. of Justice European Ct. of Human Rights
http://www.goethe.de/ www.jura.uni-sb.de/english/	Germany
www.natlaw.com	Mexico (InterAm database)
www.govt.nz/ http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/ kete/db/db.html	New Zealand
library.ukc.ac.uk/library/lawlinks www.bubl.ac.uk/uk/government.htm www.soton.ac.uk/~bopcas/ http://www.venables.co.uk/	United Kingdom

Treaties

Treaty Texts

Sites	Contents
untreaty.un.org	United Nations Treaty Collection (access restricted; contact Reserve Desk)
fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html	Fletcher Multilateral Treaties
www.access.gpo.gov/ congress/cong006.html	U.S. Treaty Documents (since the 104th Cong.)
conventions.coe.int	European Treaty Series
http://europa.eu.int/abc/obj/ treaties/en/entoc.htm	European Union
http://globelaw.com/sources.htm	Environmental Treaties
www.oas.org/juridico/ english/treaties.html	Organization of American States
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html	University of Michigan's Foreign Governments Documents Center

Treaty Status

Sites	Contents
www.state.gov/www/publications/ dispatch/index.html	Dept. of State Dispatch (updates Treaties in Force)
untreaty.un.org	Status of UN treaties(access restricted; contact Reserve Desk)

RESEARCH DATABASES (Restricted Access)

Links to the following research databases are maintained by the staff of Shields Library and are available only to faculty, students, and staff at UC Davis.

AgBiotechNet. Publishes current information about biotechnology and biosafety for researchers and policy makers world-wide. The site provides access to journal article abstracts, conference proceeding papers and tables of contents of current books. Updated monthly.

AccessUN. [Choose from menu]. Indexes United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.

Associations Unlimited. Contains information for approximately 455,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,600 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.

CQ Library. Congressional Quarterly's web service provides access to the CQ Researcher, an invaluable source of background information and research summaries on topical issues (11/99-). CQ Library also includes CQ Weekly Report back to 1983. CQ Weekly reports impartially and in detail on Congressional activities and political developments.

Congressional Universe. Congressional Information Service database provides access to congressional publications, including bills, hearing testimony, reports, prints, documents, as well as member information and legislative histories and bill status.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Country Profiles and Reports Objective and timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in more than 180 countries. Annual profiles are updated by quarterly reports. Dates covered: 1996-Present

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management. 6,500 periodicals indexed. Database subfiles include: Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts, Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, Water Resources Abstracts, Pollution Abstracts, Toxicology Abstracts, and two internet monthly guides to web sites for specialized topics for Environment and Water issues.

Fish & Fisheries Worldwide. Covers fish, fisheries and aquaculture, including biology, genetics, natural history, behavior, diseases, parasites, limnology and oceanography, habitat management, culture, propagation, fish processing, marketing, and fisheries management. 1960-

J Stor. "JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is dedicated to helping the scholarly community take advantage of advances in information technologies." JSTOR provides access to back files rather than recent issues of important scholarly journals and includes among its goals building a comprehensive archive that fills missing-issue gaps in the print collections of its subscribers.

Oceanic Abstracts. Citations to worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment. 1981-

Wildlife Worldwide. Indexes literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians; covering all aspects of wildlife and wildlife management. 1935-

Links to additional databases can also be found on the following pages:

The Shields Library directory of databases available to University of California users.
Library Reference departments maintain lists of resources. This is the Government Documents and Maps Reference page, from which there is a link to Foreign and International materials.

Last updated
March 11, 2003

Copyright © Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. All federal and state copyrights reserved for all original material presented in this course through any medium, including lecture or print. Graphic design by Maureen Coulson and Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith, from an original design by Eric Chua, Jared Menke, and Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith. Web development also assisted in part by a grant to UC Davis from the Mellon Foundation.