Training Presentation Notes

Background information

  1. Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive analytical resource covering the whole of public international law. 1700 article topics have been selected by the editorial advisory board and allocated to expert authors. When the articles are finished they are peer reviewed by members of the editorial advisory board and if necessary amended by the authors. Then they are edited by a team at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Then they are sent to Oxford University Press for copy editing and electronic capture.Nearly 1,650 articles (August 2013 update)
  2. Made available in electronic and print form by OUP in September 2008. And in July 2013, a new website was relaunched and now MPEPIL is one product of the product family, Oxford Public International Law. The online publication will be steadily expanded until there are around 1700 articles, at which point a small number of new articles will be added while existing articles are regularly updated.
  3. Oxford Public International Law brings together all of Oxford’s prestigious international law products including Oxford Reports on International Law, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, and Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law, on a single, innovative platform.
  4. History of international law since the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.

Home page

  1. Product selector, public international news, site news & latest content
  2. RSS
  3. Browse options: subject, author
  4. Quick Search & Advanced Search

Browsing

  1. List articles by subject – ‘Air law and law of outer space’ – ‘Air Law’- table of content, citatory link, Open URL linking, Select bibliography, Select documents (primary materials –cases & legislation).
  2. List articles by subject-‘Law of sea’-Search within results- ‘IUU’
  3. List articles by author –‘Wolfrum, Rüdiger’ ( the editor of MPEPIL)

Quick Search

  1. ‘continental shelf arbitration (France v United Kingdom)’ – links within this case to Citator & ORIL – Oxford Law Citatoron the left of the article- References within this article – This article mentions – Decisions, This article is about- Decisions- external Website
  2. ‘climate change’/‘emission trading’/‘carbon tariff’

Advanced Search

  1. Full text - ‘britain’ or ‘ferry’; Subject - Law of the sea, Author – ‘pierlings’
  2. The search result is ‘Altmark, The’. Hyperlink in the article (Paragraph 2- Protest)- Oxford Law Citator pop-up – Full text on MPEPIL

Oxford Law Citator pop-up in the article

Oxford Law Citator

Maps the relationship between international law cases & manages the content.

  1. Free with subscription to one or more modules
  2. Opens a new window so user can flick between Citator and original resource.
  3. Circular symbol or links on the left or bottom
  4. Shows all sources mentioned with references & links
  5. Springboard for serious international law research.
  6. Related proceedings
  7. This item mentions – down to decisions, instruments *& commentary
  8. Find other items that relate to the same jurisdiction

update 26.11.13