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International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook

Marci Hoffman & Mary Rumsey

Chapter 8: Exercise Part 3—Council of Europe, African Union, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Organization of American States

1. Using the Council of Europe’s treaty site, http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ListeTraites.asp?CM=8&CL=ENG, find the Additional Protocol to the European Convention for the Protection of Animals during International Transport . What is the entry-into-force date of this instrument?

2. Use the “Help” information in the COE’s HUDOC database, http://www.echr.coe.int/ECHR/EN/Header/Case- Law/HUDOC/HUDOC+database/, to find out how you would search for a phrase in HUDOC.

3. Using HUDOC, find the 2005 decision of the ECHR regarding whether a female medical student at a Turkish University had a right to wear an Islamic headscarf. Give the application number of this decision:

4. Using the LexisNexis database that includes ECHR cases, what is the most efficient search to retrieve the Pretty v. United Kingdom “right-to-die” case?

5. Using the African Union’s website, find the ratification information for the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. What is the date of this document (i.e., how current is the list of ratifications)?

6. Use the COE’s CODICES database, http://www.codices.coe.int/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm, to find a summary of a Spanish constitutional court decision about salary discrimination, by using the alphabetical index. Give the docket number of the case (in the form, e.g., 64/1999)

7. Using the WorldCat database, find a book that collects human rights documents of the African Union. Give the book’s title and publication year: 8. Using the OAS website, http://www.oas.org, find the text of the OAS Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities. Look at the ratification information. Has the US signed this Convention?

9. What office within the OSCE is responsible for sending election monitors to participating states?

10. Using the OSCE’s Legislationline database, http://legislationline.org, find an English translation of this Russian Federation law: Federal Law No. 67-FZ of June 12, 2002, on Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Participate in a Referendum. Give at least one date on which this law was amended: