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Treaty Research

A guide to resources for treaty research prepared by John Bolan, Bora Laskin Law Library

Full text Official Sources

Official Sources
                   Title
                Description
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Available Online

 

Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS)

 

 

First official publication of new U.S. treaties.

 

Published as a series of consecutively numbered, individually paginated pamphlets containing the text of treaties ('slips' of 'slip treaties').

 

They are eventually bound in the UST series (see below). Lag time of about 5 years. 

 

 

 

U.S. State Department website (1996-2003 available)

 Hein Online Treaties and Agreements Library

United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (cited as UST) (1950 - )

Cumulative collection of slip copies of treaties, current official collection of U.S. treaties and agreements. Lag time of about 12 years! This series begins in 1950.

 Hein Online Treaties and Agreements Library
Treaties and Other International Agreements - United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)     US1..S..168T64 ...ENG (Robarts)  Hein Online Treaties and Agreements Library

Full text Non-official Sources

Non Official Sources
                   Title
                Description
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Available Online
 

U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements

 Database of all treaties in force for the United States from 1778 to current.

 

Westlaw Canada (subscription required)

International Legal Materials (ILM)

Contains the text of select US treaties.

 

 

JX68 .I52(Robarts)

 

 Online access via UTL 

 

Hein Online Treaties and Agreements Library

 

Contains a large number of official and non-official resources for U.S. treaties

  

   Hein Online Treaties and Agreements Library