Blogs feed one of our favorite things: Statistics….We have all sorts of new things to measure, compare and analyze.
And, we thought you might like to know, well, what others wanted to know for the month of September 2008.
So, here is a list of the top five posts on our blog for the last month:
| 1) LexisNexis & Westlaw Search Engines | ||
| 2) LexisNexis Versus Westlaw Survey Results | ||
| 3) Bloomberg Law Reports | ||
| 4) LexisNexis Versus Westlaw – Update | ||
| 5) Add an “E” to IRACNotice any trends? |
To celebrate Google’s 10th birthday, they have restored their search engine back to the good old days of 2001.
Try your favorite search and see what you turn up on memory lane.
Hat tip to Law.Librarians and SLAW.
Researchers investigating U.S. treaty questions often need to determine if an international agreement is self-executing or not. For treaties submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification, you can use the declarations of advice and consent that appear in the “Congressional Record.” At the end of the declaration a note will appear if the treaty is self-executing. Hat tip to the Opinio Juris blog.
Here is an example from the September 23, 2008 Congressional Record. page S9330. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?r110:37:./temp/~r110bzXCJP:e11421:
The Senate advises and consents to the ratification of the Protocol to the Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Republic of Hungary on Extradition signed December 1, 1994, as contemplated by Article 3 (2) of the Agreement on Extradition between the United States of America and the European Union, signed June 25, 2003, signed at Budapest on November 15, 2005 (Treaty Doc. 109-14), subject to the declaration of section 2.
Section 2. Declaration.
The advice and consent of the Senate under section 1 is subject to the following declaration:
This Treaty is self-executing.
