International and Foreign Legal Research (LAWS 8765)

Law · Boston College

This two-credit course aims to help students build knowledge, skills, and strategy in international and foreign legal research. Students will learn to use a variety of specialized legal research tools including databases, websites and generative AI to research treaties, decisions of international courts and tribunals, official documents of international organizations (United Nations, European Union, etc.), as well as legislation and court decisions of foreign jurisdictions. Developing a research strategy for foreign and international legal research, international and regional human rights syst

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