Core Clinics at UCI Law

Major Treatises

Online Sources

These sites index, organize, and ocassionally excerpt human rights treaty text, jurisprudence, and interpretations. No one resource is comprehensive or fully up to date.

Treaty Text & Background

Scholarly Commentary

ICCPR

UN Human Rights Committee

International Bill of Human Rights

• Research guide for conducting foreign law research at UCI. 

UCI Databases

Google Tips

• Limit to certain sites or domains. [ prison pipeline statistics site:.org ]
• Use proximity. [ "network neutrality" AROUND(10) fcc ]
• Limit to certain file types. [ "network neutrality" filetype:pdf ]
• Use "Search Tools" to limit by date.
• In Google Scholar, set up access to UCI materials under Settings > Library Links.

Library Catalogs

Maybe there is a recent, comprehensive, authoritative treatment of your issue. Go beyond Google by checking UC Library Search to see if there's a key secondary source that you should check first.

• Sample UC Library Search for censorship and freedom of expression

Article Indexes

These systems let you search by tag with subjects, so you can easily find a group of articles about a topic.

Research Guides

Background & Reference