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This guide to researching international law was prepared by the staff of the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library at the Georgetown University Law Center. If you need additional assistance, stop by the reference desk or contact us by phone or email.

There are some basic sources that a researcher of international and foreign law uses frequently or should become familiar with in order to facilitate research in these areas. For example, it is almost impossible to do any research on an international law issue without finding references to and using International Legal Materials (ILM) [INTL REF KZ64 .I58].

This guide contains a list of resources that are close to ILM in terms of importance to international and foreign legal research. It is by no means a complete list of essential tools, so the reader is encouraged to examine these tools personally and determine which ones are most appropriate to her or his research style.

Revised August 2005

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