University Library: International Law: Keeping Current

International Blogs

Blog of the European Journal of International Law
Harvard Human Rights Reflections
Reflections is a discussion platform for members of the human rights community at Harvard to publish and exchange legal arguments, advocacy pieces, applied research, practitioner’s notes and other forms of reflections related to human rights law, theory, and practice.
LSE Human Rights blog
Opinio Juris
The academic, practitioner and legal expert contributors to this blog aim to describe and analyse international law where it is most controversial and ambiguous.
Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog
Yale Law School: Foreign & International Blog

News Databases

These databases can be used to find national and international full text newspaper articles. See also the News and Newspaper guide for information on accessing news sources.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
Leading Australasian magazines, newspapers, newswires, biographies, reference books and an image collection of photos, maps and flags.
EBSCOhost Basic Searching Tutorial
Informit TVNews This link opens in a new window
Australian news and current affairs program excerpts from free-to-air networks such as ABC, SBS and Ten.
NewsBank This link opens in a new window
Newsbank is a database that provides access to Full-Text Newspapers and contains international, national, regional and local news from across Australia and the world including
The Age
The Australian
The Australian Financial Review
The Canberra Times
The Guardian
The Sydney Morning Herald
The West Australian
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
A leading collection of full-text international newspaper articles, TV and radio transcripts.
Westlaw Classic This link opens in a new window
An extensive collection of full text primary and secondary legal materials and news sources from jurisdictions around the world.

Thomson Reuters Westlaw - News

The following is a sample search to illustrate the advanced search option to find news articles about the United Nations Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in relation to Australia.

Planning

Phrases: Identify key phrases and put them in quotation marks eg. "United Nations" "Civil and Political Rights"
Alternative terms: Identify alternative terms and put them in brackets eg. ("Civil and Political Rights" ICCPR). In Thomson Reuters Westlaw (formerly Thomson Reuters Westlaw (formerly WestlawNext)) a space equals OR.
Proximity: Consider how close the terms should be to each other for a meaningful 'relationship'. /p means in the same paragraph, /s in the same sentence.
Date Range

Look at the Help button in the blue bar at the top right hand of the WL window for additional searching hints and suggestions.

When you look at the Result List and you find a relevant item make sure you look at the Related Info tab which may link to encyclopaedias, books, journal articles and primary materials.