Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law (MPEIL)
- In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - CAMBRIDGE.
MPEIL Search Tips:
- In MPEIL's main screen search box, enter the title of a treaty in quotation marks.
- Or, click: Subject > Law of Treaties
- In left column, under: Narrow Your Choices, click the "+" to the left of Law of Treaties to view the treaty subcategories and to link to articles classified under each subcategory.
Examples of MPEIL articles include:
- Gudmundur Alfredsson, Indigenous Peoples, Treaties with (updated Jan. 2022)
- Anthony Aust, The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969) (updated Mar. 2023)
- Jutta Brunnée, Consent (updated Jan. 2022)
- Jutta Brunnée & Christopher Campbell-Duruflé, Environment, Multilateral Agreements (updated Nov. 2022) + James Harrison, Environmental Accidents (updated Dec. 2023)
- John Henry Dingfelder Stone, Medellín v Texas Case (updated Nov. 2024)
- Thomas Giegerich, Treaties, Multilateral, Reservations to (updated Sept. 2020)
- Karoline Hovland Lyngstadaas, Duty to Negotiate (updated Feb. 2025)
- Juliane Kokott & Lauri Mälksoo, States, Sovereign Equality (updated Mar. 2023)
TIP: These articles cite to many related decisions. To find decisions, visit Paper Topic Development: International guide sub-page: Texts of Cases and Arbitral Awards.
Additional digital encyclopedias available through BLS Library:
Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment Arbitration
- In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - CAMBRIDGE.
- Preface states "Like an encyclopedia, the Compendium contains [67] entries for most of the foundational principles and concepts underlying arbitration." Each Compendium entry provides an overview of key issues. Footnotes in an entry highlight many more sources.
- Either search this Compendium by keyword(s) + link to search results or skim the table of contents + link to a potentially useful entry.
- Re. the "Related content" to the right of each Compendium entry: BLS researchers will need to search SARA catalog (by a book's title) or SARA catalog's "Find a Source" tool (by a periodical's title) to determine if BLS Library provides a related source. (Contact askthelibrary@brooklaw.edu for help.)
- Publication of this online Compendium occurred in Feb. 2023.
Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Law
- In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - ELGAR.
- Comprises 12 reference volumes organized around "top level" subjects (e.g., water, energy and climate change).
- Expand the table of contents to identify pertinent chapters. Chapter authors are "international experts."
- Publication of this Elgar Encyclopedia occurred on Mar. 30, 2023.
- Includes: Volume V: Multilateral Environmental Treaties.
Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights
- In SARA catalog record, click: ACCESS ONLINE VERSION - ELGAR.
- Includes 340+ entries on the study and practice of human rights. Entries include bibliographies.
- Click a letter of the alphabet in the table of contents or use "Search within Book" feature (on right).
- Publication of this Elgar Encyclopedia occurred on Sept. 6, 2022.
