International Team Project: Ethiopia Research Checklist

This is a selective list of resources prepared for students participating in the International Team Project: Ethiopia course at Northwestern University School of Law in the spring 2008 semester, by Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian.

The law library has very few books specifically dealing with Ethiopia. You are encouraged to explore the Africana collection of the University Library in Evanston, one of the best collections of African materials in the United States. The telephone number of the Africana Reference Department is 847-467-3084. The Africana collection includes materials on the laws and legal systems of African countries.

Key to call number locations:

I,REF = international reference area, 3rd floor
R,REF = reference room, 2nd floor
REF = shelving area under grand staircase, 2nd floor
D,USG = government documents shelving area, 3rd floor
I,MON = international and comparative law books, 3rd floor
I,PER = international, comparative, and foreign law periodicals, 2nd floor
AFRICANA = Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, in the Northwestern University Library (Evanston)
Africa Eth = the old call number for Ethiopia. Closed stacks, request materials.
N,IET = the new location symbol for Ethiopia, 3rd floor.

Country Information

General Resources by Country or Region The resources listed in this section, both print and online, together provide a great deal of information on the history, geography, government, economy, etc., of the countries of the world. See "Resources for more than one country or region."

African Studies Web Sites and Databases

Africana Collection (Northwestern University Library) (Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies)
Electronic Resources (Northwestern University Library). From "Select a Subject", choose "African Studies".
Program of African Studies. Northwestern University.
Africa South of the Sahara. By Karen Fung of the Hoover Institute Library, Stanford University.
Columbia University, African Studies Internet Resources (World Wide Web Virtual Library) with sections on Ethiopia.
Also includes International Directory of African Studies Scholars.

Governmental Web Sites for Ethiopia

Laws and Legal System

Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World , by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores ("Reynolds and Flores"). The single most important bibliographic resource for foreign law research. Includes introductory materials (in-depth discussion of the legal history and legal publication), major publications, and citations to official sources for laws on specific subjects. It also cites to unofficial sources for detailed discussion and/or English language translations.
Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia, ed. by HHerbert M. Kritzer (ABC-CLIO, 2002). Short articles on each country (or non-jurisdictional legal system) place the legal system in context. Ethiopia: Vol. 2, pages 510-514.
I,REF K 48 .L44 2002
Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress)
World Legal Information Institute (WORLDLII): Ethiopia
The Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 1995, is available in Constitutions of the Countries of the World . Also available in print.
I,MON K 3157 .A2B58 1971- v.6
Islamic Family Law. Emory University Law School. Note: Website is updated as of 2002.
Annual Review of Population Law Includes family law. Abstracts of laws, sometimes full-text. Search "Ethiopia."
Journal of Ethiopian Law. Most recent issue held by Africana library is vol. 20 (2000).
Africana 963A L415y

Selected Books:

Ethiopian Constitutional and Legal Development, by Heinrich Scholler (-c2006). v.1. Essays on Ethiopian constitutional development -- v.2. Essays of Ethiopian legal development
AFRICANA 963.072 S368e (volume 2 only)
An Introduction to the Legal History of Ethiopia, 1434-1974, by Aberra Jembere.[2000?]
N,IET KRP 120 .J46 2000 and AFRICANA 349.63 A118i
Proceedings of the Symposium on the Role of Courts in the Enforcement of the Constitution, organized by Faculty of Law, Ethiopian Civil Service College (ECSC) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Addis Ababa : ECSC : USAID, [2001]-
AFRICANA (large items) L 342.6302 S989 2000p

Finding Books

Finding Books at Northwestern University

NUcat Searching Tips: using NUcat to search for books on a topic.
The preceding section explains how clicking on the "Library of Congress Subject Headings" in a catalog record can help to focus a search. Subject headings can also be searched directly. From the NUcat "Search" tab, search in "Subject Heading" or "Browse Subject Heading" Some Library of Congress Subject Headings are listed below. (The dashes and parentheses can be omitted.)
coffee industry -- Ethiopia
Ethiopia -- economic conditions -- 1974-
refugees -- Ethiopia

Finding Books at Other Libraries

WorldCat . WorldCat is a catalog with records from thousands of libraries. It can be used to identify materials not held by Northwestern University. Northwestern University students can place interlibrary loan requests either directly through WorldCat or via the interlibrary loan request form found on the library's home page.

Finding Articles

Journal articles are published in a wide range of subject areas relating to country research, such as history, politics, economics, sociology, gender studies, and religion. In order to identify relevant articles it is best to search the various specialized indexes to which Northwestern University subscribes. The following pages of the library's web site list many such indexes. Once a relevant article is identified, it may be possible to access an electronic version of the text by clicking on the "Find It At NU" buttion," or by doing a journal title search in NUcat for the name of the journal (not the title of the article). When searching an index, an "advanced" search is often easier to use than the basic search. When you find a relevant article, clicking on the "descriptors" or "subject headings" for that record may lead you to other relevant citations.

Find Legal Articles (mostly from U.S. and Anglo-American journals, including foreign and international law topics)
Finding Articles and Papers on Foreign and Comparative Law (for articles on law of countries other than the U.S. and comparative law methodology, from journals published both in the U.S. and abroad)
Finding Articles and Papers on International Law (for public and private international law)
Find Non-Law Articles (for subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences)

Finding Dissertations

Find Books, Dissertations, and Other Monographs under the headings "Books at Other Institutions" and Dissertations at Northwestern."

Finding Statistics

Worldwide Statistical Resources

News: General, Legal, and Business

Note that both Lexis and Westlaw allow you to create and save a search, to be run on a periodic basis, such as daily or weekly.

Lexis .
- News: Middle East and Africa
- New & Business: Ethiopia
Westlaw
- Business & News: Africa
- Business & News: Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopian News Agency
ethio.com: Ethiopian Related News and Information

International Business Resources

ABI/INFORM Business and management index. Citations and abstracts of articles from more than 1,300 journals, including over 350 English-language international sources. Full text articles from over 600 selected sources.Westlaw : ABI-INFORM (ABI/Inform (R) (DIALOG)) and ABI-INFORM Current (ABI/Inform (R) - Current (DIALOG))
Business Source Premier "[P]rovides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more."
GlobalEDGE (TM) Resource Desk. Michigan State University.

See our web site's International Trade, Business, and Economic Law page.

Regional and International Organizations

Note: Ethiopia is not necessarily a member of all the organizations listed below. However, these web sites are good sources of information about Ethiopia.

African Regional Organizations
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)
- African Union
International Organizations

Additional Resources for Selected Topics

AIDS/HIV/Health

Children/Juvenile Justice
- Ethiopia. From UNICEF.
- Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Supreme Court Juvenile. From the Legal Assistance Centre, Ethiopia.

Criminal Justice
- United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Ethiopia country profile

Economic Development

Education
- ERIC Annotated references to over 2,000 titles "issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)." Dates of coverage: 1966 to present.

Environment/Land Use/Natural Resources
- ECOLEX. World Conservation Union (IUCN). A database of imformation on environmental law.
- FAOLEX. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A legislative database on food, agriculture, and renewable natural resources.
- Pollution Abstracts Environment-related international literature on pollution.
- Agricola National Agricultural Library. Citations to agricultural literature.

Human Rights
- Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2006. Ethiopia (last updated Mar. 6, 2007). U.S. Dept. of State
  In print: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices D,USG Y4.F76/1-15:
- Amnesty International Annual Report 2007: Ethiopia
- Human Rights Watch: Ethiopia
- African Human Rights Resource Center. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ethiopia Homepage
- Human Rights portion of Pritzker Legal Research Center web site

Islamic Influence
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, Oxford University Press, 2001, c.1995
  I,REF DS 35.53 .O95 2001
- Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
  I,REF HQ 1170 .E53 2003
- Index Islamicus An index to literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Islamic world.
- Islamic Family Law. From Emory University Law School. Note: website is updated as of 2002.

Recent History/Politics
- International Political Science Abstracts . Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from English and non-English language periodicals throughout the world. Major journals in political science, public law, international public law, and international relations are covered.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts . Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
Refugee/Regional/Tribal
- Indigenous Studies. Center for World Indigenous Studies.
- ReliefWeb. See Ethiopia page.
- Guide to International Refugee Resources on the Web. By Elisa Mason (LLRX.com, 2007).
- UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency.
- Forced Migration Online. Includes FMO Research Guide Ethiopia (2004)

Tourism
- Shanka, Teklehaimanot S. A Study to Develop a Strategic Model for the Ethiopian Tourism Industry. PhD thesis, Curtin University of Technology, School of Marketing [Australia], 1996.
  (Accessed via Africa South of the Sahara)

Women's Issues
- Contemporary Women's Issues Women's studies, including works on sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights.
- Women's Human Rights Resources. Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto.

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	U.S. Primary Law U.S. Government Resources (federal, state and local) Illinois and Chicago International Foreign and Comparative Getting Started Finding Articles and Papers Law by Country or Region Law by Subject General Resources by Country or Region Statistical Resources Selected Topics Find Books, Articles, etc. Writing a Paper or Article Research Alerts	International Team Project: Ethiopia Research Checklist This is a selective list of resources prepared for students participating in the International Team Project: Ethiopia course at Northwestern University School of Law in the spring 2008 semester, by Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian. The law library has very few books specifically dealing with Ethiopia. You are encouraged to explore the Africana collection of the University Library in Evanston, one of the best collections of African materials in the United States. The telephone number of the Africana Reference Department is 847-467-3084. The Africana collection includes materials on the laws and legal systems of African countries. Key to call number locations: I,REF = international reference area, 3rd floor R,REF = reference room, 2nd floor REF = shelving area under grand staircase, 2nd floor D,USG = government documents shelving area, 3rd floor I,MON = international and comparative law books, 3rd floor I,PER = international, comparative, and foreign law periodicals, 2nd floor AFRICANA = Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, in the Northwestern University Library (Evanston) Africa Eth = the old call number for Ethiopia. Closed stacks, request materials. N,IET = the new location symbol for Ethiopia, 3rd floor. Country Information General Resources by Country or Region The resources listed in this section, both print and online, together provide a great deal of information on the history, geography, government, economy, etc., of the countries of the world. See "Resources for more than one country or region." African Studies Web Sites and Databases Africana Collection (Northwestern University Library) (Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies) Electronic Resources (Northwestern University Library). From "Select a Subject", choose "African Studies". Program of African Studies. Northwestern University. Africa South of the Sahara. By Karen Fung of the Hoover Institute Library, Stanford University. Columbia University, African Studies Internet Resources (World Wide Web Virtual Library) with sections on Ethiopia. Also includes International Directory of African Studies Scholars. Governmental Web Sites for Ethiopia The Parliament of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia National Bank of Ethiopia Ethiopian Ministry of Information Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, D.C. Laws and Legal System Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World , by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores ("Reynolds and Flores"). The single most important bibliographic resource for foreign law research. Includes introductory materials (in-depth discussion of the legal history and legal publication), major publications, and citations to official sources for laws on specific subjects. It also cites to unofficial sources for detailed discussion and/or English language translations. Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia, ed. by HHerbert M. Kritzer (ABC-CLIO, 2002). Short articles on each country (or non-jurisdictional legal system) place the legal system in context. Ethiopia: Vol. 2, pages 510-514. I,REF K 48 .L44 2002 Guide to Law Online (Law Library of Congress) World Legal Information Institute (WORLDLII): Ethiopia The Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 1995, is available in Constitutions of the Countries of the World . Also available in print. I,MON K 3157 .A2B58 1971- v.6 Islamic Family Law. Emory University Law School. Note: Website is updated as of 2002. Annual Review of Population Law Includes family law. Abstracts of laws, sometimes full-text. Search "Ethiopia." Journal of Ethiopian Law. Most recent issue held by Africana library is vol. 20 (2000). Africana 963A L415y Selected Books: Ethiopian Constitutional and Legal Development, by Heinrich Scholler (-c2006). v.1. Essays on Ethiopian constitutional development -- v.2. Essays of Ethiopian legal development AFRICANA 963.072 S368e (volume 2 only) An Introduction to the Legal History of Ethiopia, 1434-1974, by Aberra Jembere.[2000?] N,IET KRP 120 .J46 2000 and AFRICANA 349.63 A118i Proceedings of the Symposium on the Role of Courts in the Enforcement of the Constitution, organized by Faculty of Law, Ethiopian Civil Service College (ECSC) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Addis Ababa : ECSC : USAID, [2001]- AFRICANA (large items) L 342.6302 S989 2000p Finding Books Finding Books at Northwestern University NUcat Searching Tips: using NUcat to search for books on a topic. The preceding section explains how clicking on the "Library of Congress Subject Headings" in a catalog record can help to focus a search. Subject headings can also be searched directly. From the NUcat "Search" tab, search in "Subject Heading" or "Browse Subject Heading" Some Library of Congress Subject Headings are listed below. (The dashes and parentheses can be omitted.) coffee industry -- Ethiopia Ethiopia -- economic conditions -- 1974- refugees -- Ethiopia Finding Books at Other Libraries WorldCat . WorldCat is a catalog with records from thousands of libraries. It can be used to identify materials not held by Northwestern University. Northwestern University students can place interlibrary loan requests either directly through WorldCat or via the interlibrary loan request form found on the library's home page. Finding Articles Journal articles are published in a wide range of subject areas relating to country research, such as history, politics, economics, sociology, gender studies, and religion. In order to identify relevant articles it is best to search the various specialized indexes to which Northwestern University subscribes. The following pages of the library's web site list many such indexes. Once a relevant article is identified, it may be possible to access an electronic version of the text by clicking on the "Find It At NU" buttion," or by doing a journal title search in NUcat for the name of the journal (not the title of the article). When searching an index, an "advanced" search is often easier to use than the basic search. When you find a relevant article, clicking on the "descriptors" or "subject headings" for that record may lead you to other relevant citations. Find Legal Articles (mostly from U.S. and Anglo-American journals, including foreign and international law topics) Finding Articles and Papers on Foreign and Comparative Law (for articles on law of countries other than the U.S. and comparative law methodology, from journals published both in the U.S. and abroad) Finding Articles and Papers on International Law (for public and private international law) Find Non-Law Articles (for subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences) Finding Dissertations Find Books, Dissertations, and Other Monographs under the headings "Books at Other Institutions" and Dissertations at Northwestern." Finding Statistics Worldwide Statistical Resources News: General, Legal, and Business Note that both Lexis and Westlaw allow you to create and save a search, to be run on a periodic basis, such as daily or weekly. Lexis . News: Middle East and Africa News & Business Country and Region (excluding US) Middle East and Africa News New & Business: Ethiopia News & Business Country and Region (excluding US) Ethiopia Westlaw Business & News: Africa Business and News tab Global News Africa News Business & News: Sub-Saharan Africa International/Worldwide materials Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Materials Business & News International/Worldwide materials Sub-Saharan Africa Individual Country Materials Ethiopia Business & News Ethiopian News Agency ethio.com: Ethiopian Related News and Information International Business Resources ABI/INFORM Business and management index. Citations and abstracts of articles from more than 1,300 journals, including over 350 English-language international sources. Full text articles from over 600 selected sources.Westlaw : ABI-INFORM (ABI/Inform (R) (DIALOG)) and ABI-INFORM Current (ABI/Inform (R) - Current (DIALOG)) Business Source Premier "[P]rovides nearly 3,300 full text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more." GlobalEDGE (TM) Resource Desk. Michigan State University. See our web site's International Trade, Business, and Economic Law page. Regional and International Organizations Note: Ethiopia is not necessarily a member of all the organizations listed below. However, these web sites are good sources of information about Ethiopia. African Regional Organizations Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) African Union International Organizations Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development International Labour Organization (ILO) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United Nations Economic, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Health Organization (WHO) Additional Resources for Selected Topics AIDS/HIV/Health UNAIDS: Ethiopia World Health Organization: Ethiopia See also HIV Infections. Electronic Resources on "Health" from Northwestern University main library Children/Juvenile Justice Ethiopia. From UNICEF. Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia: Supreme Court Juvenile. From the Legal Assistance Centre, Ethiopia. Criminal Justice United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime. Ethiopia country profile Economic Development African Development Bank Group - Ethiopia United Nations Development Programme in Ethiopia World Bank Group – Ethiopia International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD in Ethiopia Education ERIC Annotated references to over 2,000 titles "issued in the monthly Resources in Education (RIE) and to journal articles issued in the monthly Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE)." Dates of coverage: 1966 to present. Environment/Land Use/Natural Resources ECOLEX. World Conservation Union (IUCN). A database of imformation on environmental law. FAOLEX. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A legislative database on food, agriculture, and renewable natural resources. Pollution Abstracts Environment-related international literature on pollution. Agricola National Agricultural Library. Citations to agricultural literature. Human Rights Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2006. Ethiopia (last updated Mar. 6, 2007). U.S. Dept. of State In print: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices D,USG Y4.F76/1-15: Amnesty International Annual Report 2007: Ethiopia Human Rights Watch: Ethiopia African Human Rights Resource Center. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ethiopia Homepage Human Rights portion of Pritzker Legal Research Center web site Islamic Influence The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, Oxford University Press, 2001, c.1995 I,REF DS 35.53 .O95 2001 Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures I,REF HQ 1170 .E53 2003 Index Islamicus An index to literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Islamic world. Islamic Family Law. From Emory University Law School. Note: website is updated as of 2002. Recent History/Politics International Political Science Abstracts . Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from English and non-English language periodicals throughout the world. Major journals in political science, public law, international public law, and international relations are covered. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts . Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope. Refugee/Regional/Tribal Indigenous Studies. Center for World Indigenous Studies. ReliefWeb. See Ethiopia page. Guide to International Refugee Resources on the Web. By Elisa Mason (LLRX.com, 2007). UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency. Forced Migration Online. Includes FMO Research Guide Ethiopia (2004) Tourism Shanka, Teklehaimanot S. A Study to Develop a Strategic Model for the Ethiopian Tourism Industry. PhD thesis, Curtin University of Technology, School of Marketing [Australia], 1996. (Accessed via Africa South of the Sahara) Women's Issues Contemporary Women's Issues Women's studies, including works on sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Women's Human Rights Resources. Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto.