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Researching Customary International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2019

Hester Swift
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Abstract

This article written by Hester Swift is based on the online course entitled, ‘Customary International Law’, which was created by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) Library for the Postgraduate Online Research Training (PORT) platform and is available to all at <https://port.sas.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=120>. The PORT service is provided by the University of London's School of Advanced Study.

Keywords

legal sourceslegal researchpublic international law
Type
Current Interests
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2019 , pp. 169 - 175
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2019. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

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3 Ibid.

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